In US state of Pennsylvania, slew of church abuse lawsuits hinges on state court decision
Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaAP Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses have been hit with about 150 lawsuits from people who say they were sexually abused as children by priests and hope a state court decision last year has shown a way around time limits for legal claims. Lawyers involved in the litigation say they were still getting notified about […]
How the Black Plague turned the Shroud of Turin into a beloved relic
RNS Last year, about 35,000 people visited Pittsburgh’s St Anthony Chapel, one of five churches grouped recently under the Catholic diocese’s Shrines of Pittsburgh designation. The chapel houses some 5,000 relics – the largest number outside the Vatican, by its count – including what it claims are splinters of the true cross and a barb from […]
PROTECTING HOUSES OF WORSHIP: IN THE US, EXPERTS SAY INTERFAITH COLLABORATION IS THE FUTURE OF SECURITY
AYSHA KHAN, of Religion News Service, reports…
Violence against Jews in US doubled last year – ADL study
RNS Violent attacks against US Jews doubled in 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s yearly audit of anti-Semitic incidents. Yet the report, published days after a synagogue shooting in Poway, California, that killed one woman and injured three other people, shows that despite the grim spike in violence against Jews, physical assaults remained relatively rare. Anti-Semitic […]
ESSAY: WHY PITTSBURGH MATTERS
Rabbi JEFFREY SALKIN, in an article for his column first published on Religion News Service, says the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was not only an attack on Jews or Judaism but an attack “on all that we hold sacred”…
Eleven dead in US synagogue shooting
Last updated 9.30amEleven people have been killed and six more wounded after a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh. The incident, which took place at the Tree of Life synagogue in the neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, took place during Sabbath services early on Saturday. Four police officers were among […]
STRANGESIGHTS: THE “TOWN THAT GARBAGE BUILT” FOR SALE; WORLD’S BIGGEST GOLD COIN STOLEN; AND, A DOG ARTIST….
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…