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By David Yonke - Toledo Blade 

As congressmen and senators debate health-care reforms, religiousleaders and lay persons will be gathering for interfaith prayerservices in Washington and around the country.

The Interfaith Week of Prayer and Health Care, organized by theCleveland-based nonprofit group called Faithful Reform in Health Care,started yesterday and continues through Friday.

An Interfaith Service of Witness and Prayer will be held in Toledoon Wednesday to coincide with a gathering at Freedom Plaza inWashington. "Echo events" like the Toledo service are plannedthroughout the United States.

"Health care is a faith issue but my guess is that most members offaith communities have not had it called to their attention that theyhave a responsibility when it comes to health-care reform," said KarenKrause, social justice chair of the Toledo Area Jobs with JusticeCoalition.

The local group will hold a local prayer service starting at 5:45p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of Augsburg Lutheran Church, 1342Sylvania Ave. If the weather is bad the service will be held indoors.

"We believe that humanity is sacred and that all persons should benefit from health care," Ms. Krause said.

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