COVID-19

While so many holidays and events have turned online to Zoom, Skype or social media, another holiday that has had to adapt locally is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“Dr. King encourages us not to grow weary,” said Rev. William Young, pastor of Covenant Baptist UCC in D.C.

The annual anti-abortion demonstration has brought supporters to the nation's capital each year since the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 1974 to hear from speakers and march to the Supreme Court building.

'Jericho Marchers' sang 'How Great Is Our God' as they processed around the U.S. Capitol holding Trump signs and waving Trump flags.

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“Hindsight’s 20-20,” said Hegelund. “I think a lot of churches, if they had known that they were planning to shut us down, basically permanently, we would have never gone along with it. It wasn’t really about helping out the hospitals. It was about something else.”