by | Dec 11, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (17)
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Drivers honked to protest Yale. Marchers chanted and claimed the street. A boxed-in bus driver yelled his own protest and ended up in a rush-hour stand-off. Other drivers slipped by ferrying menorahs.
The evening ended with a hushed tree-lighting to launch the official Christmas shopping season.
by | Dec 9, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (8)
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Clockwise from top left: Local pastors Steven Cousin, Boise Kimber, Hector Otero, and John Cotten.
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Fair Haven’s Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, future learning hub site.
Four churches in Fair Haven, Dixwell, and Newhallville won permission to run daycare centers-turned-learning hubs — to offer relief to working parents who can’t leave their kids home alone during the day, and reliable internet and in-person educational support to students.
by | Dec 3, 2020 6:50 pm | Comments (4)
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It was a Jewish wedding — so of course this spread came from Abel’s.
The pandemic has claimed a second-generation kosher catering business that was an omnipresence at local religious celebrations.
by | Nov 20, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (19)
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Sign of the time: No longer, thanks to building sale.
Hundreds of hungry people have lost two sources of free meals — one permanently, one temporarily — as cold weather sets in, the holidays approach, and the Covid-19 pandemic resurges.
by | Nov 16, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Holiday spirit uprooted Monday on the Green.
As the pandemic ramps up again, apparently even the weather wasn’t feeling the holiday spirit — as a storm toppled the city Christmas Tree on the Green.
by | Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm | Comments (1)
Aryal marks Diwali.
With temples closed, fewer stores open, and gatherings discouraged, New Haveners had to celebrate Diwali a little differently this year. They found a way.
Continue reading ‘“Festival Of Lights” Perseveres In Pandemic’
by | Oct 31, 2020 9:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Father Michael McGivney.
“When the day finally came for Chip’s execution, Father McGivney was there,” said Father John Paul Walker of St. Mary’s Church. “The night before the execution, he spent essentially the entire night talking to him. It’s the power of charity, it’s the power of mercy, it’s the power of love that can change the heart of someone.”
by | Oct 27, 2020 1:53 pm | Comments (23)
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Streicker with reporters outside last week’s debate at the JCC.
(News analysis) Rosa DeLauro saw Margaret Streicker’s hand of Italian-Americans — and raised it by 200 Jews.
by | Oct 18, 2020 8:28 pm | Comments (44)
Forty Beaver Hills residents came out Sunday to seek solutions to spiking crime — and at times confronted divisions in their own neighborhood, which has both a sizable African-American and a sizable Orthodox Jewish population.
by | Oct 15, 2020 6:05 pm | Comments (7)
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Diamond Short held her two-month-old daughter in her arms as she answered her apartment’s front door — to find a police chief and a pastor offering an update and reassurance in the wake of a horrific incident involving the discovery of another baby.
by | Oct 12, 2020 9:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Cowes with Tinney during Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration on the Green. Below: Cowes’s bear claw, sage, and hawk feather.
Richard Cowes lifted a wooden bear claw filled with smoldering white sage up to one side of Gary Tinney’s face and, whispering a prayer for peace, wafted the fragrant plume of smoke with a hawk feather.
by | Sep 10, 2020 4:00 pm | Comments (0)
“When you pray, move your feet.”
The late civil rights leader John Lewis would invoke that African proverb in reference to the marches that changed American history.
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Nazareth Vyraven: I like to give students something of their own.
Nazareth Vyraven is on a mission: To give a new backpack and two new face masks to every student in the schools that surround her Dwight church.
Continue reading ‘Free Backpacks, Masks Ready For Dwight Schools’
by | Aug 24, 2020 8:44 am | Comments (1)
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Over the past 47 years, the church that Bishop James Perkins and Pastor Tanzella Perkins founded has grown from three parishioners to over 400.
The Perkins’ legacy is evident not only in the community they started, but also on a Hill streetcorner that now bears their names.
by | Aug 15, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (3)
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Prayer caravan participants preaching peace.
Local Hispanic pastors and their congregants blanketed city streets with prayers of non-violence, unity and hope in a car caravan that traveled from Fair Haven to the Hill to City Hall.
by | Aug 7, 2020 4:04 pm | Comments (7)
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Rev. Ricardo Heredia (at podium) leads a prayer on the second floor of City Hall.
Pastor D’Hati Burgess with mask showing the late Kiana Brown.
City elected officials and local clergy invoked the power of prayer Friday afternoon as they reflected on the devastation wrought so far in 2020.
Continue reading ‘Amidst Traumatic Year, Leaders Pray For Peace’
by | Jul 24, 2020 9:35 am | Comments (2)
Jamilah Prince-Stewart, organizer of faith voting drive.
FaithActs for Education, a Black-led community organizing nonprofit based in Bridgeport, will include New Haven in its fifth annual Faith Votes Campaign with a goal of activating 3,000 voters in this year’s elections.
FaithActs recently announced it will be expanding its voter education and turnout campaign into Hartford and New Haven for the first time.
Continue reading ‘She’s Bringing The Voting Faith Back Home’
by | Jul 21, 2020 2:14 pm | Comments (13)
Pastor Rafael Sotomayor preaching on July 14.
A New Haven church has temporarily closed its doors and transitioned back to virtual services after at least 10 congregants tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, amid a feared citywide uptick.
The outbreak occurred among members of Iglesia Jesus Rey De Gloria on Grand Avenue.
by | Jul 15, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (6)
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Rev. Cousin: Churches could facilitate remote learning spaces.
How will kids whose parents have to work or who don’t have internet access at home be able to attend school online if they prefer?
A group of New Haven pastors floated an idea: Let kids learn remotely inside churches.
by | Jul 5, 2020 12:15 pm | Comments (12)
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On Independence Day, 15 indigenous people gathered in Wooster Square Park by the stone pedestal that until 11 days earlier had supported a statue of Christopher Columbus.
Continue reading ‘Indigenous Ritual “Cleanses” Wooster Park’
by | Jun 3, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (1)
Gov. Ned Lamont told congregations to go ahead and start holding in-person worship services.
Seventy-nine area ministers said: Not so fast.
Continue reading ‘Ministers Vow To Hold Off On In-Person Worship Services’
by | Jun 2, 2020 10:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Davaul Amin, Chief John Cappiello, Imam Saladin Hasan.
Members of a Hamden mosque marched alongside police officers, shutting down a lane of Dixwell Avenue, to speak out against police brutality.
by | Jun 1, 2020 12:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Heidi Thorsen, Paul Young, David Kuperstock, Darryl Kuperstock at Sunday’s giveaway.
Chapel on the Green, a program of Trinity Church on the Green, teamed up with a local synagogue to distribute masks Sunday in conjunction with a nearby soup kitchen.
Continue reading ‘Homemade Masks Added To Sunday Meals-To-Go’
by | May 26, 2020 7:40 pm | Comments (3)
Twenty New Haven faith leaders led by example by getting tested for Covid-19 despite being asymptomatic Tuesday at the Murphy Medical Associates testing site on the corner of Day Street and Chapel Street.
by | May 25, 2020 9:45 am | Comments (6)
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Ihsan, Ismail and Salwa Abdussabur and Ayanna Bakiriddin at the traditional meal, with a pandemic twist.
On the one hand, the family was together and the grilled lamb was so tender it was falling off the bone. On the other, lost opportunities and the dangers of Covid-19 had brought them there.