Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden annex opens in NYC

New York AP A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in New York City on Monday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time the annex has been completely recreated outside of Amsterdam, where the space is […]
Significant Sights: Their kinship sealed by fire, St John the Divine brings Notre Dame to life in exhibition

FIONA ANDRÉ, of Religion News Service, reports on an exhibition at the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in Manhattan…
Trump loses bid to toss hush money conviction on immunity grounds

New York, US Reuters Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the US Supreme Court’s July ruling recognising immunity from prosecution for a president’s official acts. Justice Juan Merchan’s denial of Trump’s motion to dismiss the New York […]
How Trump’s hush money trial verdict could affect the 2024 election

Washington DC, US Reuters Jurors hearing the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president could render their verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money case as soon as next week, with potentially big implications for the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up […]
Donald Trump ordered to pay E Jean Carroll $US83.3 million, will appeal verdict

New York, US Reuters Donald Trump was handed a stinging defeat on Friday by a Manhattan jury that ordered him to pay $US83.3 million to the writer E Jean Carroll, who said he destroyed her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by denying he raped her. Jurors needed less than three hours to reach a verdict […]
NYC’s Middle Collegiate Church nears time for demolition of its historic facade

United States RNS Middle Collegiate Church, the New York City congregation whose historic building suffered a devastating fire nearly three years ago, has received permission to remove the heavily damaged remnant of its 19th-century neo-Gothic facade. Rev Jacqui Lewis, who leads the multi-ethnic church in Manhattan’s East Village, said the pending work is a mixture […]
Donald Trump’s business empire in peril as civil fraud trial opens in New York

Reuters Donald Trump and his family business are set to stand trial in New York on Monday in a civil fraud case that could deal a major blow to the former US President’s real estate empire. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is accused by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James […]
Tim Keller, retired New York megachurch pastor and bestselling author, dies at 72

United States RNS Tim Keller, an influential Presbyterian Church in America minister who founded a network of evangelical Christian churches in New York City, has died. He was 72. Timothy Keller in 2011. PICTURE: Nathan Troester Known for his brainy and winsome approach to evangelism, Keller founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan in 1989 and […]
Historic façade must go, Middle Collegiate Church tells New York landmarks commission

United States RNS Two years after suffering a devastating fire, the leaders of Middle Collegiate Church are awaiting the resolution of a dispute over its historic façade. When the six-alarm fire destroyed most of the historic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the façade remained standing. But church officials, after spending $US4.2 million on fencing, steel bracing and […]
Building a new community: South Sudanese refugees are making a home, and a church, in Central New York

JESSICA MUNDIE, writing for Religion News Service, meets a congregation of South Sudanese refugees in the heart of New York City…