by | Jun 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (1)
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180 Center leaders join in prayer at dedication of new building.
Over 50 people gathered to celebrate the opening and dedication of a new building for The 180 Center, a Christian nonprofit that provides services for addiction and homelessness in New Haven.
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by | Jun 2, 2022 5:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Ghost gun recovered in connection with Maple Street gunfire.
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Apostle Valerie Washington with Jordan Strother, brother of homicide victim Anthony Strother, at vigil on South Genesee Street.
A group of young people, out for revenge for the killing of an 18-year-old, opened fire on a Maple Street house before speeding away in a car.
The murdered man’s 15-year-old brother was not in that car.
Chalk up that fact — along with the subsequent arrest of the four young people and the removal of two “ghost guns” from the streets — to the power of focused police work … and, perhaps, prayer.
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by | May 18, 2022 11:16 am | Comments (2)
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Upon This Rock Ministries at 882 Grand Ave.
As New Haven gears up for sunny summer days, Mark Washington is already thinking about the frigid weather next winter — and the community members who won’t have a place to shelter during cold emergencies.
Continue reading ‘Grand Avenue Ministry Pitches Warming Center’
by | May 9, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (3)
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Pastor Jack Perkins Davidson in the tree in front of Spring Glen Church.
With kids in colorful masks and skirts, praise of God as the “womb of life and source of being,” and a pastor high up in a sugar maple helping to secure a long gauzy rainbow banner, Spring Glen Church marked both Mother’s Day and the 25th anniversary of becoming an “open and affirming” congregation within the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
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by | May 2, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (1)
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Knights of Columbus units at Sunday's celebration.
When the apostles sent out their nets at the shore of Lake Tiberias, according to the Book of John -– ultimately a metaphor to become “fishers of men” –- there were no real ichthyological prey to be caught. When they came to believe and to give witness, then they filled their nets. And, thanks to God, there was a big catch.
That was the apt homily for how to keep rebuilding the Catholic community in Westville and the heart of the message of Archbishop Leonard Blair as he celebrated mass in front of 200 of the faithful on the occasion of Westville’s St. Aedan’s and St. Brendan Parish’s main building’s 100th anniversary.
by | Apr 25, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (5)
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Featured speaker Lazowski (above) addressed Holocaust remembrance crowd (below) at the Towers.
“What happened to me,” Philip Lazowski, one of the last remaining survivors who can still tell the tale, “is a lesson on what could still happen.”
by | Apr 18, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (4)
Seven-year-old Tetty with winnings.
Easter came early to “The Shack” Community Center, as 100 neighbors from West Hills and beyond came together Saturday for a cookout.
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by | Apr 10, 2022 9:23 pm | Comments (14)
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Yevgeny and Kristyna with baby Leonell Sunday at St. Michael's Church.
Yevgeny and Kristyna Biziaieva and their three children observed Palm Sunday on George Street, the first Ukrainian refugee family to be welcomed in New Haven since the war broke out.
by | Apr 5, 2022 3:50 pm | Comments (2)
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Imam Omer Bajwa at WNHH FM.
Imam Omer Bajwa awoke before 5 a.m. Tuesday so he could drink lots of water before the sun rose. He plans to drink a lot more water after 7:30 p.m.
In between, Bajwa won’t eat or drink anything. Meanwhile, his soul will be nourished.
by | Mar 27, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Rabbi Ravid Tilles, at right, presents prayer shawl to BEKI Rabbi Eric Woodward at Sunday's ceremony.
As we emerge –- we dearly hope -– from a mask-filled pandemic, one of the most important values to which we aspire is seeing and being seen, in the fullest spiritual sense.
by | Mar 25, 2022 12:52 pm | Comments (0)
Pauli Murray.
In 1961 Pauli Murray found joy being in New Haven, to have endless days for study and discernment and to have that culminate, five years later, in her becoming the first African-American student to earn a doctorate from the Yale Law School.
It was the opposite of joyful -– and she never forgot it -– when a landlord on Howe Street refused to rent to her because of her race.
by | Mar 7, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)
Young event attendees sing — and show off their outfits for the evening, which they described as "pajamas," dashikis and "normal church clothes."
Voices and spirits were lifted Saturday night during Hamden’s Mount Zion Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s annual Black history celebration.
by | Feb 27, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (10)
Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.
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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
by | Feb 24, 2022 9:43 pm | Comments (14)
At Thursday night's church service on George Street.
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Alexandra Altrui: "My poor country."
As Russian forces pushed towards Kyiv Thursday night, Alexandra Altrui sat in a back pew of the Ukrainian Catholic church on George Street and wept — praying for her nephew as he prepared to take up arms to defend her home country under siege.
by | Jan 28, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (2)
When Brian Immerman learned that a gunman had taken members of a Reform synagogue hostage, it “felt like a gut punch.”
It didn’t change his mind about the need to “welcome the stranger.”
Continue reading ‘After Colleyville, Rabbi Still Ready To "Welcome The Stranger"’
by | Jan 27, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (5)
Pastor Valerie Washington with the kids.
“I have a question for each of you,” Pastor Valerie Washington began, seated on the soft carpet in a circle of two dozen 3‑to-15-year-olds in the cozy confines of Grand Avenue’s Upon This Rock Ministries.
by | Jan 26, 2022 2:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Greer company-owned yeshiva building: Worth $6.5M, according to city. Worth $620K, according to court.
A nonprofit controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer has less than a month to scrounge up $620,000 to pay the convicted sex offender’s victim and retain control of the historic yeshiva building at the corner of Elm Street and Norton Street.
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by | Jan 25, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (7)
Imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer (right) owes Alan Dershowitz (left) $20,000, according to court records.
A federal judge has blocked convicted sex offender Daniel Greer’s housing nonprofits from diverting money from rental properties to pay over $308,000 to various lawyers — including controversial celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz — who have helped Greer seek to leave prison and avoid paying a sex-assault victim.
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by | Jan 24, 2022 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Elijah Davis Jr.: "I'd like to thank God, because He made it all possible."
The legacy and face of Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Church’s retired leader Elijah Davis Jr. will now remain in the church even on days when his physical presence is absent.
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by | Jan 17, 2022 10:38 am | Comments (7)
Cars lined on Butler Street for food pickup.
A crew showed up at a Shelton Avenue church not to chant prayers or hear a sermon — but to help a community stay fed and protected during a particularly tough stretch of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jan 16, 2022 10:32 am | Comments (10)
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Pastor Kennedy D. Hampton Sr. on Saturday march, beside father's poster.
The 52nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love March trekked in 10-degree weather Saturday through the streets of Goatville and Upper State.
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by | Jan 7, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (2)
Librarians Jeffrey Panettiere, Arthur Volanth, and Mercedes MacAlpine dressed as the Three Kings, with Alfredo Rosa, Victoria Rosa, Keisy Rosa, and Luis David Espinal Peralta.
Biblical royalty appeared on Washington Avenue Thursday bearing gifts — and hope for hard times.
by | Dec 23, 2021 3:28 pm | Comments (1)
1959 Lutheran church located at 3860 Whitney now sold to "Church of Christ LLC."
Northern Hamden will see three acres of previously private woods preserved and opened to the public — as well as a currently confidential congregation emerge within a 60-year-old church — in 2022.
Those are two upcoming developments described by sellers, buyers, donors, and donees in Hamden’s latest series of property transactions. (Check out the chart lower down in this story to see sales filed in the past week.)
Continue reading ‘Hamden Real Estate Roundup: Open Space Preserved, Churches Merged’
by | Dec 17, 2021 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
A new 50-year retrospective exhibit displays works by artist Bruce Oren (below), including the above sculpture of Moses.
Artist Bruce Oren renders the face of Moses in fine detail in marble, from the wrinkles worn into his face to the weight of his eyelids. He conveys the heaviness of the tablets on his shoulders by the angle of his elbow, the definition of the muscles. But as we move away from Moses’s face, the details begin to grow coarser, until we see the edge of the block that Moses came from.
The figure emerges from the marble, but Oren leaves room for the stone to have its say, too. We get to see not just the finished figure, but the path Oren took to get there.
by | Dec 1, 2021 9:19 am | Comments (2)
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Daniel Mowerman passes flame to Jessie Pearl and son Levi Pearl.
A bright and symbolic flame of “tradition” and a “brighter day” was passed among generations during rush hour at Union Station at the onset of the third night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Continue reading ‘Light Of Hope, Miracles Spreads At Station’