Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hosted a major event for Christian pastors called The Response - Louisiana: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis’. He invited 49 of his fellow U.S. governors to attend the event and he decried societal issues. Jindal, a Republican and a former Hindu who converted to Catholicism, listed societal plights needing prayer and input from his fellow governors. They were the fatherless, the need for building new homes, an epidemic of drugs and crime, a saturation of pornography and an increase in the polarisation, division, and hopelessness amongst many. He said that America needs trust, respect and civility restored. Jindal cited biblical texts to call his fellow political leaders to pray on behalf of the nation in an effort to ‘appeal to heaven for heaven’s intervention.’