The community is invited to attend the event Thursday night.
MAPLE SHADE TWP. -- An interfaith vigil and prayer service is being held in the wake of hate incidents both locally -- such as the recent discovery of pro-Ku Klux Klan fliers -- and across the country.
The event will be held Thursday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in Maple Shade. Last month, officials in Cinnaminson, Moorestown and Maple Shade were investigating a handful of KKK leaflets encouraging readers to "love your race" and "stop homosexuality and race mixing."
This past week, hundreds of tombstones at Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and St. Louis were toppled. Also, bomb threats were made to Jewish Community Centers across the country.
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"Antisemitism doesn't stop at the state line -- nor should funding to combat these threats," U.S. Rep. Don Norcross said in a statement Monday in a call for additional security funding that came after the bomb threat made to the Katz JCC, in Cherry Hill.
Scheduled to be in attendance Thursday evening are Norcross, state Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald; Assemblyman Troy Singleton; Deacon Pat Brannigan, who is the executive director of the New Jersey Catholic Conference; Rabbi Nathan Weiner of Congregation Beth Tikvah; Imam Morshad Saami Hossain of the Voorhees Islamic Center as well as elected officials from across the state and region.
The service will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday in Nolan Hall at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, located at 236 E. Main St. The event is open to the public.
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