60,000 pray in Times Square

With the news of 50,000 Muslims called to DC today for the Islam on the Capital rally, I thought you might find this news heartening and encouraging.

This happened on Sunday. Don't be surprised you didn't hear about it. This doesn't fit into the media's playbook. But it doesn't erase the fact it happened.

60,000 pray in Times Square

NEW YORK – You can see most anything at Times Square in Manhattan.

But 60,000 people praying? That's an unusual sight in the heart of Broadway.

Yet, that's just what happened there yesterday for one hour – from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in a Christian rally called Prayer in the Square.

Event organizers from Time Square Church had expected some 15,000. But their expectations were far exceeded at the third event of its kind in the last three years.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who helped the church cut through the red tape necessary to hold such an event, addressed the crowd.

"It's a little strange for me to be up here," he said. "I'm a Jew. But I just celebrated Rosh Hoshana, our new year. So I guess it's appropriate for me to wish you all a happy new year."

Despite the magnitude of the event, no major media covered it – even in the center of the media world on a slow news day.

More than 200 churches joined with the Times Square Church in promoting the rally to pray for the city and the nation.

The Islam event's website, at the very bottom of the page in large, block letters, declares: Our Time Has Come.

As God has proven throughout history and will prove now and in the end, they are quite wrong.