Source: Detroit Free Press
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Thursday's National Day of Prayer, once mainly an annual evangelical display of political strength, is growing in metro Detroit into a showcase of religious diversity involving dozens of congregations.
In West Bloomfield, for example, the Chamber of Commerce will honor the township's diverse clergy association with a Celebrate West Bloomfield award.
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Rabbi Eric Yanoff, head of the Shaarey Zedek B'Nai Israel Center and codirector of the award-winning clergy association, said most members of his group wouldn't feel welcome at typical Christian-only National Day of Prayer events, "but, in our association, we've learned that there's more strength in our community when we invite people with a whole multiplicity of views to come to the table."
Msgr. Ricardo Bass, pastor of Prince of Peace Catholic Church and Yanoff's cochair of the association, said, "Like a lot of Americans, my own family is made up of people of different faiths, so I'm personally very strong in supporting religious diversity.