In a heartening example of interfaith compassion, a New York church and mosque joined forces to feed low-income families and offer free health screenings for the holidays.

On Christmas Day, the Westbury United Methodist Church partnered with the Islamic Center of Long Island in order to provide a warm meal—and an even warmer welcome—to financially struggling families.

Although the church and mosque have been helping to facilitate these yuletide feasts for the last 5 years, this is the first event during which they have offered health consultations as well.

"We can give them the additional service of getting medically checked out since we have so many physicians in our community," Islamic Center volunteer Mukheet Ahmed told WLNY.

The two religious establishments hope that their collaborative charity work will help inspire others to look past their differences during the year ahead.

"We don't see religion as a border, we see it as something that's there to help," another volunteer told reporters. "I want to create a bond between all faiths. I think when it comes down to it, we are all human."

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