LOWER MANHATTAN — Downtown residents aren’t ready to give up the Park51 mosque and community center, which Saudi billionaire King Abdullah reportedly wants to move up to Greenwich Village.
Several downtown residents said Monday that they are looking forward to Park51 bringing a pool, gym, theater and other amenities to the planned location on Park [...]
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has thrown a bit more data into the simmering debate about mosques in the United States, and to what degree these houses of worship are facing new opposition. Bottom line: Opposition is broader than has generally been depicted.
Since the controversy about the Muslim center [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,” Obama said, weighing in for the first time [...]
Next week I will be in Hanoi, Vietnam with a dozen or more teachers from NorthWood Church where I pastor in Dallas, Texas as they will be working on education projects at the National University of Vietnam. I love Hanoi: the sights, smells, everything about it. I’ll hang out with lots of my Vietnamese [...]
They have almost everything in common, including the tragedy that defines their lives. Both women were born in the Bronx and educated in Catholic schools. They married and raised kids of their own in the boroughs that circle Manhattan; as parents, they—like most of us—fought too much and counted blessings too little. On September 11, [...]
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