Reaching Out to the Hill’s Many Faiths

Numerous Outlets for Religious Expression Offered

By Bree Hocking and Daniel Heim
Roll Call Staff
June 11, 2007

On a recent Friday afternoon, dozens of Muslims met in the basement of the Capitol to hear a short sermon from a local imam, and then, facing in the direction of Mecca, prostrated themselves in prayer. About an hour later that same day, a handful of Jews gathered in a House Foreign Affairs Committee room to pore over passages from the Torah. The following Monday, a half-dozen evangelicals attended a Christian world view seminar in another room just down the hall from where the Muslims had met.



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