Religious leaders and farmers held multi-faith prayer service in Reno to ask the divine for help easing drought conditions.© Rich Pedroncelli/APFolsom Lake, California, where a boat ramp is now several hundred yards away from the waters' edge.
Religious leaders of multiple faiths and farmers in Nevada and Utah turned to prayer this weekend for help easing severe drought conditions gripping the west.
The plea to above comes weeks after the federal government declared parts of 11 parched western and central states natural disaster areas.
Faith leaders asked for divine intervention during a special multi-faith service Saturday at a Mormon church in the Reno, Nevada suburb of Sparks. And on Sunday, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation asked the public to join in prayer and fasting for snow and rain for livestock and crops as part of its Harvesting Faith event.
"We can't go to the legislature to ask for help, (so) we decided to go to the guy upstairs," Ron Gibson, a dairy farmer in Weber County, Utah, told the
Deseret News. "One thing you learn as a farmer is most of the things that happen in your life are totally out of your control."
Rajan Zed, who organized the Nevada service, said Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha'i and other faith leaders who participated are confident it'll bring positive results.
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