by Adelle Banks | Apr 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote the popular book “The Cross and the Switchblade” and founded New York’s Times Square Church, died in a traffic accident Wednesday (April 27). Wilkerson, 79, died after his car slammed into a tractor-trailer on a highway...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 8, 2011 | News
(RNS) The proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque project near Ground Zero is again looking for a top imam after Sheik Abdallah Adhami resigned the post less than one month into the job. Adhami, 44, said in a statement he was leaving to devote more time to...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) A conservative religious law firm plans to appeal a decision that grants a green light for the construction of an Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero. The Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) opposes the construction of...
by Jodi Mathews | Jan 15, 2003 | News
The recent shooting of a 17-year-old who was brandishing a realistic-looking toy gun has rekindled the fire of two New York City councilmen to ban all toy guns. But in New York City, toy guns are nothing to play around with. Sometimes they even get people killed. The...
