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Relaxing restrictions

Zionica — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:45 +0000

Despite the horrors revealed during the Gosnell trial, Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks to expand access to late-term abortions in New York NEW YORK—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, vowed to push through the state legislature a Women’s Equality Act before the current legislative session ends on June 20. The act, he said, would…

Military Cancels Memorial Day Fleet Week Appreciation Event While Government Spends Nearly $1 Million on Empty Bank Accounts

Zionica — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:00:26 +0000

In 1984, the New York City area has hosted Fleet Week during the Memorial Day holiday. It’s the community’s way of showing appreciation to members of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. In recent years, the event has welcomed over 6,000 members of the military. Fleet Week consists of all kinds of shows and events…

Faith in the Face of Destruction

Zionica — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:53:39 +0000

Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a photograph of the damage the monster storm Sandy had inflicted on the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. This beachfront community had been hit hard by air, water and fire, leaving the fourth classic Greek element, earth, strewn with rubble and ashes. The front-page photo, reproduced five…

Flooding stops filming of Noah's Ark movie

Zionica — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:24:47 +0000

In what could be termed an ironic case of life imitating art, filming of a biblical epic telling the story of Noah and his ark was put on hold this week due to Superstorm Sandy. Darren Aronofsky's film, starring Russell Crowe as Noah, was due to be filmed on Monday at locations in New York.…

Educators dismiss atheist threat to sue over God songs

Zionica — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:38:57 +0000

A national atheist group is demanding that a New York public school district remove songs from the curriculum of a music class because they feature the words "god" and "lord" in the lyrics, but the educators aren't backing down. The Freedom from Religion Foundation has sent letters to the Shenendehowa Central Schools, in Clifton Park,…

Court rules NY town's prayer violated Constitution

Zionica — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:02:34 +0000

An upstate New York town violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity, a federal court of appeals ruled Thursday. In what it said was its first case testing the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, the U.S.…

Harlem churches see gospel tourist boom on Sundays

Zionica — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:05:36 +0000

The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists — most of whom had arrived late — a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand. They outnumbered the congregation itself: a handful of elderly black men and women wearing suits and dresses and old-fashioned pillbox hats. "We're hoping that you will…

Former mob boss tells crowd about conversion to Christianity

Zionica — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:02 +0000

Speaking out on family values isn’t out of place in a religious setting – unless the values are those of the Columbo crime family, one of the five mafia families reputed to control organized crime in New York. Michael Franzese was the featured speaker at the Men’s Power Lunch at First Baptist Church of Conroe…

What About the Ground Zero Church? Archdiocese Says Officials Abandoned Project

Zionica — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:28:21 +0000

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America accused New York officials on Tuesday of turning their backs on the reconstruction of the only church destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, while the controversial mosque near Ground Zero moves forward.