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KINGSTON — An “unknown person” set fire to an 8-foot cross at a church in Kingston early Wednesday, the city’s police ...
The cross, the Christian symbol of faith, has taken a turn —– sideways. Women, both young and old, have been donning necklaces, bracelets and more recently, rings, with crosses turned ...
A wooden cross that stood outside a Kingston church for years — built in memory of a late congregant — was deliberately set ...
In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who argued it was unconstitutional for Los Angeles County supervisors to place a Christian cross on the county seal. A divided ...
In 2012, a group of local residents backed by the AHA filed a lawsuit challenging the cross’ placement and funding. Federal courts have often cited the Constitution’s Establishment Clause ...
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Pennsylvania county may keep the image of a Christian cross on its 75-year-old official seal. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ...
The Supreme Court should rule that Boston was right to ban a religious group from hanging a Christian flag on a city flagpole. But, as usual, there are nuances.
Today, the cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. It was not always so. In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove, a ship, an anchor and a lyre.
Fifty years ago, a devout Christian asked the Albany Lions Club to build and maintain a large lighted steel and plexiglass cross on his private land, to be lit during the Christmas and Easter ...
For as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit explained in a different case a few years ago, “a memorial Cross is not a generic symbol of death; it is a Christian symbol of death that ...