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A bronze statue of the archangel Gabriel blowing a trumpet stands atop the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as the sun rises in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York March 26, 2023. (RNS/AP/Ted Shaffrey, File)

NY's Episcopal Diocese launches $1M racial reparations fund

"New York was the center of the slave trade in the United States," said Boshop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. "That evil is part of the fabric of the diocese, and we're trying to repair this fabric."

Signage at St. John's University in Queens, N.Y. (Wikimedia Commons/StJohnHall, CC BY-SA 4.0)

St. John's University partnership with US border protection divides campus

A partnership between St. John's University in Queens, New York, and United States Customs and Border Protection to inaugurate an immigration enforcement training center has sparked tensions among the university community.

The sky is orange behind the U.S. Capitol dome with American flags flying around it

Poll: More religious Americans support the use of political violence

Support for political violence and concern over the state of American democracy are both on the rise, with 75% of Americans believing the future of democracy is at risk in the next presidential election, according to a report released Oct. 25 by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.

 

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