PRAY AND LIBATION CEREMONY

Prayer Vigil for our Ancestors at The Bethel Burying Ground – MARCH 29TH!

Did you know that a cemetery containing the remains of more than 5,000 Black men, women, and children from the 18^TH AND 19^TH centuries is desecrated under a city playground in the four hundred block of Catherine Street in Philadelphia, PA?  Did you know that the City of Philadelphia is more concerned with its plans to renovate the grounds of that playground than to protect and preserve those historic ancestral remains?  Did you know that a broad-based organization called the Friends of Bethel Burying Ground Coalition is leading the battle to support our buried ancestors and to permanently protect and preserve this publicly owned historic site?

ON MARCH 29^TH WE WILL HOLD A PRAYER VIGIL FOR THE 5,000 OF OUR ANCESTORS WHO ARE BURIED AT THE BETHEL BURYING GROUND LOCATED IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF CATHERINE STREET.  WE ARE ASKING YOU TO JOIN US IN PRAYER AND LIBATIONS ON THAT DAY TO ENSURE THAT OUR ANCESTORS MAY NOT ONLY REST IN PEACE, BUT THAT JUSTICE BE DONE AND THAT THEIR LIVING NOT BE IN VAIN.  WE HOPE TO SEE ALL OF YOU AT THIS VERY IMPORTANT, VERY SPIRITUAL AND VERY MOMENTOUS OCCASION.   FBBGCoalition@gmail.com

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DATE:       MARCH 29, 2014

TIME:        1:00PM

WHERE:   400 BLOCK OF CATHERINE STREET

WHO:        ANYONE WITH A GOOD HEART AND THE WILL AND INTENTION TO HELP IN THE PERMANENT PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE REMAINS OF OUR ANCESTORS.