A Lutheran minister was suspended for participating in a post-Sept. 11 interfaith prayer service in New York. “To participate with pagans in an interfaith service” that included Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus “is an extremely serious offense against the God of the Bible,” the Rev. Wallace Schulz, an official with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, wrote in the letter suspending the Rev. David Benke.
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