New York City
Stations of the Cross for trafficking victims protests New York’s decriminalization effort
By Rosie Dawson — April 19, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — The Stations of the Cross was also a mobile protest against an attempt by New York state legislators to decriminalize all aspects of the sex trade.
Technology, tradition and the invention of Christmas in 19th-century New York
By S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate — December 7, 2018
(RNS) — Christmas became a legally recognized holiday in many states only in the mid-19th century. But by then New York City had already given birth to the traditions we know today.
The case for gender-segregated beaches
By Michele Chabin — June 29, 2018
(RNS) — News that New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch has rented a city-owned Brooklyn beach for separate male and female swim days is creating excitement among devout Muslims and Orthodox Jews, but critics say the practice amounts to gender discrimination.
Italian-American church in Brooklyn’s ‘Little Guatemala’ gets new lease on life
By Katherine Fung — April 10, 2018
NEW YORK (RNS) — St. Finbar Catholic Church in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood is part of a larger national trend: The share of U.S. Catholics who are Hispanic has increased by 5 percentage points since 2007 to 34 percent and is expected to continue growing.
Head underground for Gotham’s new Catacombs by Candlelight tour
By Samantha Maldonado — December 21, 2017
NEW YORK (RNS) — Under the nave of the Basilica of Old St. Patrick's, a tour guide takes the curious through Catholic catacombs only recently opened to the public.
Accused NYC attacker followed radical preacher
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 13, 2017
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Moulana Jasimuddin Rahmani is the currently imprisoned leader of a banned group called Ansarullah Bangla Team, which has been linked to killings and attacks on secular academics and atheist bloggers in Bangladesh.
Muslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack
By Wayne Parry — November 3, 2017
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — 'People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people. Because this guy was a Muslim, Muslims will be blamed anywhere and everywhere,' said Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, the region's most influential mosque.
Pope pained by attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, New York
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 1, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The pope said during an Angelus prayer on Wednesday, the Catholic holiday of All Saints' Day, that he was praying for all those who were killed and injured, and for their family members.
Holocaust, climate change — when did we know, what did we do?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 20, 2017
Climate change. Future generations will ask: When did we know? And what did we do about it?
New York grand jury indicts man for murder of Muslim cleric
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 22, 2016
NEW YORK -- A New York City grand jury on Monday indicted a Brooklyn man who is accused of fatally shooting a Muslim cleric and his assistant this month after they left a mosque in Queens.
New York City to change rules to allow churches to rent schools
By David Gibson — March 30, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) Mayor Bill de Blasio says he supports churches renting space in public schools. Now a court decision will force him to show whether he really believes that.
de Blasio adds Muslim holidays to NYC public school calendar
By Reuters — March 5, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters) Hindu activists said the decision to not also include Diwali as a school holiday was "beyond disappointing."
Our Lady of Revenue: NYC churches go on the market, leaving parishioners cynical
By Rick Hampson — March 3, 2015
(RNS) The Catholic archdiocese's plan to close dozens of churches raises an issue faced by thousands of shuttered churches across the Northeast and Midwest: what to do with buildings that are often architecturally important and always sentimentally important, especially since a church's shape, age and location make the building hard to reuse.
New online atlas ‘heat-maps’ views on abortion, gay marriage, immigration
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 25, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Here's how you can discover the states and cities where people's views blow hot or cold on these divisive issues, and where there's some "surprising consensus."
Greek Orthodox launch rebuilding of St. Nicholas, the only church destroyed on 9/11
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — October 20, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) The church designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava will include an interfaith memorial for victims of the 9/11 attacks.
