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L.A. WATTS TIMES
Los Angeles, CA
11/22/2001
13th Annual Black Prayer Week for AIDS Slated for March
The 13th annual Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS is scheduled
for March 3 - 9, 2002. The event is sponsored by The Balm in Gilead, which describes
itself as a "national campaign (that) organizes black churches to become centers
for AIDS education and compassion."
The group is calling for national and local black church leaders to call for
a "national health state of emergency" concerning AIDS in black communities.
Blacks contract AIDS eight times more than whites and two times greater than Hispanics.
"Just as all of us have been affected by the recent attacks on the U.S.,
we have all been affected and under siege by HIV/AIDS for more than 20 years,"
said group founder Pernessa Seele in a statement.
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