Episcopal church in Michigan hosts interfaith rally against religious bigotry

Interfaith leaders gathered on August 25 at Christ Episcopal Church in Dearborn, Michigan, for a "Hate Has No Home in Michigan" event hosted jointly by the church and Mother of the Savior Church, an Arabic-speaking congregation. The rally responded to recent anti-Muslim incidents and rising religious bigotry targeting Dearborn's large Muslim population, where Arab Americans now comprise a majority of the city's 110,000 residents. Speakers included Rev. Halim Shukair, priest-in-charge of both congregations, Muslim and Jewish leaders, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, and Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim candidate who earned the Democratic nomination for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat. Shukair emphasized that Christ Episcopal Church serves as more than a worship space, hosting the Intercultural Community Center, which he leads, where people from different cultures, languages, and faiths gather to serve the community. The church and Mother of the Savior launched the center in 2022 with a $260,000 grant from Trinity Church in New York. Speakers stressed the importance of unity across differences and rejected the xenophobic rhetoric increasingly targeting the city.

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Source: Episcopal News Service — https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/08/26/michigan-church-hosts-interfaith-rally-supporting-muslim-neighbors-as-hate-groups-target-dearborn/