Christian group temporarily opens beaches it has closed on Sunday mornings as court fight plays out
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, US AP For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a […]
Israel would no longer be the country “my son died for”: memorials marred by anger
Beersheba, Israel Reuters Tensions ran high as ceremonies commemorating slain Israeli soldiers and victims of attacks turned into protests on Tuesday, far from the decades-old tradition of Memorial Day unity. Despite calls from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leaders to put disagreements aside over plans by the far-right government to strip Israel’s highest court […]
Unknown Soldier’s precarious journey home to the US included chaplain’s prayer
RNS A century ago, a captain on a storm-tossed Navy ship turned to an onboard chaplain for his specialty: prayer. The USS Olympia, on which they were traveling across the Atlantic, carried not only sailors and Marines but a special cargo. On the weather deck, the top level of the steel warship, was the casket […]