Biden asks Americans to honour September 11 dead by rejecting extremism
Washington DC, US Reuters President Joe Biden urged Americans on Monday not to succumb to the “poisonous politics of difference and division” as he sought to revive the spirit of national unity after the deadly 11th September, 2001, attacks 22 years ago. “It shouldn’t take a national tragedy to remind us of the power of […]
Lifestory: Tim Keller – A life of extraordinary integrity
Australian CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reflects on his time working with US Christian leader Tim Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan following news last week that Keller had died at the age of 72…
Greek Orthodox church at World Trade Center opens at last
New York, USAP More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church’s far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade centre’s memorial plaza. The new St Nicholas Greek […]
Explainer – 9/11 families lay claim to Afghanistan’s frozen billions
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As the Taliban demand the release of billions of dollars in Afghan assets frozen overseas, another group of people is laying claim to the money – families of the victims of the 11th September, 2001 airplane attacks in the United States. The hardline Islamist movement, which returned to power last year […]
Orthodox Patriarch blesses shrine near 9/11 memorial
RNS The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians gave his formal blessing Tuesday to an ornate shrine that will replace a small parish church destroyed during the 11th September, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, nearing the completion of a 12-day US visit from his home base in Turkey, […]
Essay: What 20 years (and counting) of the war on terror must teach us
In an article published by Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Friends Committee on National Legislation, says it’s “clearer than ever the global war on terror has been an unmitigated humanitarian and strategic disaster”…
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 […]
Shrine to replace church destroyed on 9/11 nears completion
RNS The domed sanctuary rising in Lower Manhattan, where workers are busy installing translucent Greek marble in time for a ceremonial lighting on on 10th September bears little resemblance to the modest parish church that John Katsimatides had discovered years ago. He often visited the old St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church to say a prayer […]
9/11 Museum acquires prayer bench used by Rev Mychal Judge
New York, USAP A prayer bench used by Rev Mychal Judge, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 11th September, 2001, was driven to the New York area on Sunday to join the collection of the Sept 11 Memorial and Museum, museum officials said. The bench formerly […]
Snapshot: September 11, New York City
See CLAIRE TAM’s image…