In response to resurging revelations and allegations of clergy sex-abuse cover-ups in Catholic Church in number of states are initiating their own investigations.. Attorneys New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Vermont, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska and New Mexico have already..…

Civilians pour into the streets, thronging the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Piccadilly Circus in London, New York’s Fifth Avenue the Piazza Venezia in Rome. . Church bells ring out at full peal and people dance in the streets. In French ports, soldiers from the United States,..…

Members of a New York Pentecostal church. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) . ..…

↩Barry Commoner, “Oil, Energy and Capitalism,” a talk at the Community Church of Boston, February 22, 1976, http://climateandcapitalism.com. ... (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976),194–95, 236–37. . ↩Howard T. Odum, “Interview of Howard T. ..…

By numerous historic leaders, Photo Leticia Martínez Located Upper Manhattan, New York, and bordering the neighborhood of Harlem, Riverside Church has been the scene of memorable speeches, such as Martin Luther King, 1967, delivered his sermon entitled. ... Photo Leticia..…

King delivered his 'Beyond Vietnam' speech on April 4, 1967, at New York's Riverside Church. ..…

(As a young man in New York, he began attending Marble Collegiate Church, a Dutch Reformed congregation, and in recent years, he has been associated with Paula White, an evangelical megachurch pastor who will pray at his inauguration.) . ..…

Martin Luther King delivers his 'Beyond Vietnam' speech at Riverside Church in New York City The Riverside address, which has come to be known as the 'Beyond Vietnam' speech, was also a challenge to the prevailing liberal consensus that civil rights activists had to, at all costs,..…

That case involves Christian, Lamb's Chapel, that has been denied the use of rooms at Center Moriches High School New York state for worship services and for film series on the religious aspects of family life.. Lamb's Chapel stressed the aspect, the justices seemed..…

Jack Fruchtman Jr argues that no wall can ever be tall enough to protect the separation of church and state from action designed to accommodate religious community.. Fruchtman takes issue with the decision by New York state legislature to create school district Orange County,..…

Leading constitutional scholars say the multimillion-dollar damages awarded this week to the father of Marine killed Iraq is to be overturned because the church members. ..…

Amy Butler as senior pastor of New York City’s influential and historic Riverside Church, as well as the installation of a number of other women at high-profile American congregations, has brought new attention to the theological divide among religious groups concerning the..…

In that case the Court held that church had not committed crime when it paid English minister to move to New York and become its pastor notwithstanding the text of statute prohibiting the prepayment of the cost of bringing foreigners into United States to perform labor or service..…

Cardinal Dolan thought he heard Obama pledge respect for the Catholic Church's rights of conscience. . ... Should the whole New York Times become an op-ed section? . Social Issues and the Santorum Surge (Feb. 18) . ..…

After working abroad—as vicar in a German church in Barcelona and then as a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York—he was ordained, but his passage to accredited church work ran up against the Nazis’ determined campaign to unify the many parts of the German..…

These courts have taken somewhat different approaches in addressing the problem of congregational consent to the trust provision adopted by the church in 1979. ... Harnish (2008), the New York Court of Appeals ruled that even though the breakaway congregation joined the Episcopal..…

In 2000, Giuliani declined to answer questions about his church attendance, calling it a personal matter. . Four months into his tenure as New York City’s mayor, Giuliani gave a major speech on religion and politics. ..…

It’s the kind of place where you articulate your identity religiously, and not just in the South, where people say, where do you go to church? ... That opening question appears in – not so much in New York City and not so much in San Francisco, but – and not so much in New..…

Bulgarian PM Borissov holds talks in New York with American Jewish organisations . . . Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates 140th anniversary of the birth of Exarch Stefan . . . ..…