by KYW’s Karin Phillips

Over 1,000 walkers are expected this afternoon at 2pm for the fifth annual Interfaith Walk for Peace and Reconciliation.

Members from several mosques, churches and synagogues in the city of Philadelphia as well as those representing other spiritual and religious denominations will be walking throughout Germantown, Mount Airy and Roxborough; sharing what organizers call a spiritual journey and an interfaith dialogue.

Vic Compher is one of the organizers:

“Many different faiths are represented as a way of having together a conversation; we call it sometimes a walking dialogue. This year, we're going to have a Buddhist led walking mediation for a short stretch of the walk. We enter into each others' sacred houses of worship.”

Compher says everyone should be wearing white as a symbol of unity. For more information, go to www.interfaithpeacewalk.org.