{"id":1068,"date":"2011-09-12T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2011-09-12T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T19:38:27","slug":"faith-news-roundup-911-anniversary-edition-wheres-the-ground-zero-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/09\/faith-news-roundup-911-anniversary-edition-wheres-the-ground-zero-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith News Roundup, 9\/11 Anniversary Edition: Where&#8217;s the Ground Zero Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the brouhaha over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/09\/no-clergy-at-ground-zero-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\">not having clergy lead prayers at the 9\/11 anniversary ceremony <\/a>at the new World Trade Center memorial yesterday, there was plenty of faith at the observance, including biblical readings<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/obama-giuliani-read-bible-bush-mentions-god-at-9-11-service-55413\/\" target=\"_blank\"> from President Obama, former President George W. Bush and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was impossible to find coverage of the anniversary that didn&#8217;t include a faith angle, whether on grieving the victims, consoling the survivors, or looking at how Muslims and interfaith efforts have responded to the resulting Islamophobia.\u00a0A sample:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/september-9-2011\/911-then-and-now\/9480\/\" target=\"_blank\">9\/11 Then and Now <\/a>(Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/09\/11\/3089318\/tenth-anniversary-of-9-11-remembered#When:12:59:00Z\" target=\"_blank\">Tenth anniversary of 9\/11 remembered<\/a> (JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/11\/multi-faith-911-prayer-vigil-calls-for-tolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-faith 9\/11 prayer vigils call for tolerance<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/liturgy\/911_sermon_reflections.html\" target=\"_blank\">9\/11 sermon reflections<\/a> (Episcopal Cafe)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/catholic-take-911-day-\u2018spiritual-globalization\u2019\" target=\"_blank\">A Catholic take on 9\/11: A day of &#8216;spiritual globalization<\/a>&#8216; (National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/forum\/story\/2011-09-10\/911-religion-islam-christianity\/50354708\/1?csp=34news&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+News-Opinion+%28News+-+Opinion%29\" target=\"_blank\">How 9\/11 changed religion in America <\/a>(Stephen Prothero for USA Today)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/09\/911-prayer-events-where-were-the-evangelicals\/1\" target=\"_blank\">9\/11 prayer events: Where were the evangelicals? <\/a>(USA Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2011\/0908\/From-fear-of-Islam-to-outreach-how-9-11-prompted-interfaith-efforts\" target=\"_blank\">From fear of Islam to outreach: How 9\/11 prompted interfaith efforts<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/09\/asking-why-on-911-anniversary\/#comment-232920\" target=\"_blank\"> glaring &#8220;religion ghost,&#8221; <\/a>however, was the absence of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/church-files-claim-for-right-to-rebuild-at-ground-zero.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church&#8217;s land dispute<\/a> in any of the coverage, even in the maps of which lower Manhattan buildings were damaged or destroyed by the Sept. 11 attacks. I can&#8217;t decide if this is a massive public relations failure on the part of the Greek Archdiocese, or just evidence that the media got overwhelmed\/lazy due to all the more obvious angles of the anniversary? Probably both. But, I did find one<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/analysis\/20110911\/166748960.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0story from a Russian journalist<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; reporting that apparently nothing has changed about the &#8220;Ground Zero church&#8221; dispute in the past nine months.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the brouhaha over not having clergy lead prayers at the 9\/11 anniversary ceremony at the new World Trade Center memorial yesterday, there was plenty of faith at the observance, including biblical readings from President Obama, former President George W. Bush and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In fact, it was impossible to find coverage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[452,455,137,179,20,14,13,11,8,26,458,7,134,457,112,36,456,451,146],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-911-anniversary","tag-911-attacks","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-qaida","tag-catholics","tag-christianity","tag-evangelical-christians","tag-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-jews","tag-mayor-giuliani","tag-muslims","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-president-bush","tag-president-obama","tag-protestants","tag-sept-11-anniversary","tag-sept-11-attacks","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Faith News Roundup, 9\/11 Anniversary Edition: Where&#039;s the Ground Zero Church? - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/09\/faith-news-roundup-911-anniversary-edition-wheres-the-ground-zero-church.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faith News Roundup, 9\/11 Anniversary Edition: Where&#039;s the Ground Zero Church? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For all the brouhaha over not having clergy lead prayers at the 9\/11 anniversary ceremony at the new World Trade Center memorial yesterday, there was plenty of faith at the observance, including biblical readings from President Obama, former President George W. 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