Snowstorm batters western New York, restricting travel ahead of Thanksgiving
Reuters Snowfall of more than two metres in western New York state prompted local officials on Saturday to further restrict road travel and forced airlines to cancel flights in the Buffalo area, just ahead of the busy Thanksgiving holiday week. New York Governor Kathy Hochul called in the National Guard, deploying about 150 members to […]
Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort
El Paso, Texas, US Reuters The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas’ Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over US border security. El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, has bused […]
Texas Governor sends migrants to New York City as immigration standoff accelerates
New York, USReuters Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and US President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The first bus arrived early on Friday at the city’s Port Authority […]
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
United StatesRNS Tom Cornell, the longtime Catholic pacifist who humbly referred to Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day as “my spiritual mother”, died on 1st August in a hospital near the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker farm that he helped run with his family in Marlboro, New York, where he lived with his wife of 58 years, […]
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After $US2 million New York church robbery, houses of worship evaluate theft risk
RNS When Rev Frank Tumino, pastor of St Augustine, walked into his Catholic church in the Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn on the last Saturday in May, he found physical and spiritual wreckage: Angels that had decorated the front of the building were decapitated, Communion wafers were scattered across the altar and, most shocking, an […]
In the US, $US2 million relic stolen, angel statue beheaded at Brooklyn church
New York, USAP Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $US2 million gold relic and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week. The incident happened between 6:30pm Thursday and 4pm Saturday at St Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church, known as […]
In New York’s ‘Little Odessa,’ Ukrainians see Russians as neighbours, not enemies
New York, USReuters In just one day, Inga Sokolnikova filled two rooms in her beauty salon in New York City’s Brighton Beach with donated diapers, clothes and medical supplies for her native country of Ukraine. Donations poured in not only from Ukrainian and Ukrainian American residents of this diverse waterfront neighbourhood in south Brooklyn, but […]
Orthodox Patriarch ‘recovering well’ in New York hospital
New York City, USAP The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians was recovering well in a New York hospital Thursday after a medical procedure delayed his return home to Turkey at the end of a US visit, according to a doctor who treated him. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was in good spirits and feeling “very spiffy” […]
New York pilgrimage celebrates interfaith solidarity in lead-up to 9/11 anniversary
New York City, USRNS Minister Onleilove Chika Alston went to high school right across from the Twin Towers. The 11th September, 2001, changed her life – it changed the shape of her school neighbourhood, destroyed the mall in which she would hang out during school days – but even more so, she said, it changed […]