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World Socialist Web Site
April 3, 2018
Juan Carlos Ruiz of the New Sanctuary Coalition told the Times that approximately a dozen immigrants are taking sanctuary in churches across the city, most in secret. Amanda Morales Guerra was the first to publicly seek sanctuary and has been in a Manhattan church with her three children since August.
Tampabay.com
April 3, 2018
Henry J. Lyons, longtime pastor at Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, is elected to a five-year term as president of the National Baptist Convention USA, the nation's ... The check comes from an account in New York City belonging to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria, that nation's diplomatic outpost here.
WABC-TV
March 25, 2018
But in a sign of the times, Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel both installed metal detectors this month. Visitors on their way to see Alexander Hamilton's tomb in Trinity's historic graveyard, or who want to sit in the pews at St. Paul's where George Washington prayed and dust-covered rescue workers restedÃâà...
Business Insider
March 16, 2018
It's a rare opportunity — not only is this the last remaining crypt in the church's catacombs, but it's also one of the only remaining full-body burial plots left on the island of Manhattan. In-ground burials south of 86th street were outlawed in 1852 when then-overflowing graveyards in New York City led many toÃâà...
Victoria Advocate
March 10, 2018
I ask these riders about evangelizing through Uber, and they're elated to talk about how they bless the car rides, pray over riders and invite the ones who are open to it to attend a local church. It's also a time for them to learn about other churches in the area or sometimes meet a fellow Christian and newÃâà...
Triad City Beat
March 10, 2018
On rare display is Church's great post-pilgrimage work on his estate he named Olana, sitting upon a high hill overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City. Taking inspiration from Middle Eastern architecture and ornamentation, blended with his own aesthetic and spiritual ideals, Olana consumedÃâà...
Twin Falls Times-News
March 10, 2018
GOODING — The God Squad puppet team of the First Christian Church invites you to its 20th annual spring show, “What a Wonderful World,” at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. April 8 at the church, 334 Fourth Ave. W., Gooding. This will be the farewell performance of the God Squad — with favorites shared in celebrationÃâà...
Catholic Herald Online (blog)
March 9, 2018
As Cardinal Willem Eijk recently warned, “The question of whether the so-called divorced and remarried can be allowed to receive sacramental absolution and therefore the Eucharist is cracking the Church apart.” If Mgr Pinto's course fails to reaffirm the Church's traditional doctrine, it can only lead to moreÃâà...
Downtown Express
March 9, 2018
Trinity Church has installed metal detectors at the main entrance to its Broadway parish out of an abundance of caution about the perils of the earthly world, which has too often made Lower Manhattan icons targets of terrorism, according to the venerable church's rector. “A shepherd's heart wants to keepÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
Back to the little church I grew up in. It was founded in 1971, before I was born, by exiles from the main Baptist church in town. They were the smaller faction in a dispute over whether the church, all white at the time, would invite the nearby black churches to a community Thanksgiving service. The pastorÃâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
“Some folks assume that the church doesn't have a congregation or that it's deconsecrated,” the choreographer and performer Reggie Wilson said on a recent afternoon. “That's really not ... “New York City's churches have always been open to far more radical activity than I think people recognize,” she said.
NPR
March 1, 2018
It was part of the church's weeklong 'Festival of Grace,' which included a 'President Trump Thank You Dinner' on Saturday." The Rev. Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon prayed for "a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear arms,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
The roots of the church's problems in China go far back. The Qing emperor banned Christianity for about a century before Western powers forced the dynasty to let missionaries in again. When the Communists gained control of China in 1949, Catholicism was hit especially hard because of the Vatican'sÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Ms. Prats, 52, of East Harlem, then tied her purple ribbon to one of the many handrails and short birch trees outside of the Church of the Epiphany, an age-old Roman Catholic church in Gramercy Park, joining thousands of others before her who, for the last four weeks, have turned the church's outside plazaÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Ms. Hernandez is the second person in New York City to publicly seek sanctuary in a church. The first, Amanda Morales Guerra, who is also from Guatemala, has been living in the Holyrood Episcopal Church in Washington Heights since August with her children, ages 10, 8 and 3. Churches can effectivelyÃâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
An undocumented mother has pledged to stay inside a New York City church until she is granted reprieve from a deportation, in a last-ditch effort to ... “We want to teach others about our undocumented population and why their humanity matters,” said the church's pastor, Schuyler Vogel, according to theÃâà...
WABC-TV
December 31, 1999
Manhattan church's prayer ribbons inspire thousands, not just religious. Email. share; share; tweet; email. EMBED More ... For Lent, one Manhattan church created a prayer plaza where people can leave handwritten notes on purple ribbons. They thought they would have a few -- but now they haveÃâà...
The Durango Herald
December 31, 1999
Two New York City churches that survived the destruction of World Trade Center have become the latest city tourist sites to embrace post-Sept. 11 security measures. Metal detectors were installed for the first time this month at Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press.
Sojourners
December 31, 1999
Leaders of predominantly black churches were not the only people of faith who wanted to get young people into the theaters for the popular movie. The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, the African-American pastor of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, said her congregation's white youth director took aÃâà...
