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[The Jersey Journal] The Interfaith Religious Leaders of Secaucus held a communal Prayer Vigil this week to promote peace and compassion among different faiths and cultures.

"We're coming together to reject the spirit of hate that seems to be all around us," the Rev. Elizabeth Searle of the Episcopal Church of Our Savior, said. "Whatever our faith, we are here tonight to stand up for compassion, mercy, kindness and justice."

The Rev. Miguel Hernandez of Holy Trinity, West Orange is quoted in this article.

[Essex News Daily] The West Orange Hispanic Foundation (WOHF) celebrated its first anniversary with a party at Elks Lodge No. 1590 on July 30.

[Passaic Valley Today] Officers with the Little Falls Police Department have kicked off a program so they can talk to residents in person more frequently.

The department hosted its first event for the program, called Coffee with a Cop, on Aug. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon, in The Falls Kitchen restaurant. A program that exists nationwide, its goal is to strengthen the relationship between police and residents in the community.

[Chatham Courier] Twenty campers ranging in age from 4-to-10-years old-explored soil at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Earth Science camp earlier this month.

[MorristownGreen.com] In the wake of this month’s massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, “it is especially important that we stand up and declare our pride in them, and in ourselves,” Bishop Gene Robinson told a gay pride service at Morristown’s Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on Sunday.

Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion, compared the Pulse nightclub to a cathedral, and the murders to a desecration.

[Morristown Green] Hundreds held hands and sang songs by candlelight Wednesday on the Morristown Green, and heard eloquent clergy members try to find hope in the tragedy of Orlando.

[The Star-Ledger] More than 34,500 people were shot to death in this country last year, some 21,000 of them by their own hand. An additional 27,000 are living with the wounds they sustained. The casualties roughly equal the populations of Bayonne, East Orange or Vineland. But sometimes to comprehend the degree to which gun violence has degraded our culture, it helps to focus on just one life.

[Clifton Journal] St. Peter's Episcopal Church hosted on May 15, an interfaith conference on Hagar, a mother of faith by women of faith. Rabbi Ziona Zelazo, Rev. Lynne Weber, an Episcopal priest and Dr. Nuray Yurt, a Muslim scholar presented the perspective of their community of faith on Hagar.