Stand with Standing Rock
A Call for Prayer from the Office of the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop and the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
![The Dakota Access Pipeline is currently under construction near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The finished pipeline will cross under the Missouri River and carry up to 450,000 barrels per day of crude oil. Photo by Lars Plougmann [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)] via Flickr](http://norththompsonpc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-FB-300x158.jpg)
The Dakota Access Pipeline is currently under construction near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The finished pipeline will cross under the Missouri River and carry up to 450,000 barrels per day of crude oil. Photo by Lars Plougmann [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)] via Flickr
The call to prayer begins “Water is sacred and one of the four primal elements that sustain life on Mother Earth. We have not respected water and consequently many lakes, streams, rivers and creeks are polluted. It is an element on the verge of scarcity. We must protect water.”
Read the entire call to prayer here.