Climate change means New York City’s flooding is “new normal”, Governor says
Reuters Torrential downpours that caused flash flooding in New York City on Friday reflect a “new normal” due to the effects of climate change, New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned on Saturday, as the city began drying out after one of its wettest days ever. A police officer from the NYPD Highway Patrol looks on […]
In the US, Yeshiva University adds a master’s program in Jewish studies for Christians
United StatesRNS Yeshiva University has launched a master’s degree program intended specifically for Christian students who want to learn more about Judaism, part of a growing number of academic collaborations at US Christian and Jewish schools that draw students of different faiths. The Hebraic Studies Program for Christian Students began this summer as a partnership […]
New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at US-Mexico border to ‘consider another city’
Washington DC, USReuters New York City will distribute flyers at the US-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to “consider another city” and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days as the city’s Democratic mayor says it is straining to house them. In an announcement on Wednesday, the office of Mayor Eric Adams […]
Updated: Trump pleads not guilty to 34 criminal charges in New York
Updated: 12:45pm (AEST)New York, USReuters Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 US election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first […]
“He Gets Us”: $US100 million ad campaign wants to fix Jesus’ image. His followers remain a problem
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, that the ‘He Gets Us’ campaign, which hopes to rescue the message of Jesus from the misdeeds of Christians, will expand in the months leading up to the Super Bowl…
Postcards: African Catholics in NYC find community at French Mass
KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU, of Associated Press, reports on how New York City’s Church of Notre Dame brings together a diverse range of people…
In the US, New York Governor, clergy and ambassadors join Orthodox leaders to pray for Ukraine
RNS Ambassadors, elected officials and a group of interfaith clergy joined with Orthodox Christian leaders in New York on Wednesday to express solidarity with Ukrainians as they resist the ongoing invasion of their country – and to decry the Russian leaders at the helm of the conflict. The slate of dignitaries gathered at the Ukrainian […]
Christmas kicks off in NYC with Rockefeller tree arrival
New York, USAP New York City ushered in the holiday season Saturday with the arrival of a 24-metre tall Norway spruce that will serve as one of the world’s most famous Christmas trees, in Rockefeller Center. The 12-ton tree was trucked in from the Price family home in Elkton, Maryland – the first time the […]
Preparing for a different future: After Ida, US cities eye more equal resilience plans
DAVID SHERFINSKI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how US cities are scrambling to prepare for the next climate-fueled storm…
Mother Cabrini statue unveiled in NYC on Columbus Day
New York CityAP New York Governor Andrew Cuomo observed Columbus Day on Monday by dedicating a statue of the Italian-American saint known as Mother Cabrini in lower Manhattan. The unveiling of the statue came a year after Cuomo announced that the state would commission a monument to the Roman Catholic nun who was canonized in […]