"We are here to provide a religious presence. We are here to listen to people, to hear what’s on their hearts. And we’re here to pray with people...because people are in crisis and that’s why we are all here." says protest chaplain Erica Richmond.

Heschel is widely considered to be one of the greatest American religious figures of the last century - a rabbi, theologian, social activist and mystic admired by Christians as well as Jews. He would have been 101 years old this month.

Commentator Donald W. Mitchell, a religious studies professor at Purdue University, writes about the protests in Myanmar and "socially engaged Buddhism."