Sept. 11
‘On 9/11 there was a sense of unity in the country. We’ve taken a collective step back.’
By Simran Jeet Singh — September 8, 2023
(RNS) — A surgeon who volunteered at Ground Zero recalls the aftermath.
Church destroyed during 9/11 attacks consecrated as national shrine
By Marika Proctor — July 5, 2022
(RNS) — St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, in addition to Orthodox services, will also feature dedicated interfaith and nonsectarian spaces.
‘King of the World’ podcast examines good and bad of Muslim American life after 9/11
By Joseph Hammond — September 21, 2021
(RNS) — The show is aimed at Muslims who were in their early 20s and late teens in 2001 and suddenly found their Islamic identity thrust upon them by the attention paid to Muslims after the attacks.
9/11 became a catalyst for interfaith relations and cooperation
By Adelle M. Banks — September 9, 2021
(RNS) — Though anti-Muslim sentiments grew in the wake of 9/11, another legacy of that historic day is the evolution and advancement of interfaith cooperation in the United States.
Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias
By Luis Andres Henao, Mariam Fam, and Deepti Hajela — September 7, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — As young American Muslims grew up under the shadow of 9/11, they faced hostility and surveillance, mistrust and suspicion, questions about their Muslim faith and doubts over their Americanness.
Why President Biden is right to get our troops out of Afghanistan
By Thomas Reese — April 23, 2021
(RNS) — A fundamental principle of the just war theory is that you should not fight an unwinnable war.
9/11 timeline project traces ‘underlying Islamophobia’ in war on terror
By Aysha Khan — September 10, 2019
(RNS) — The visual timeline of post-9/11 policies and programs highlights the 'underlying Islamophobia' linking nearly two decades of torture, immigration crackdowns, surveillance overreaches and more.
Construction halted at church destroyed in Sept. 11 attacks
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 26, 2017
(AP) Construction on a Greek Orthodox church to replace one that was crushed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been temporarily suspended.
Let the first lady pray! (COMMENTARY)
By Greg Laurie — February 22, 2017
(RNS) This past weekend, Melania Trump walked up to the presidential podium, thanked the crowd and, with her husband by her side, said something I can’t remember any first lady or president doing in recent memory: the Lord's Prayer.
‘Small, still voice’ at the 9/11 museum
By Beth Kissileff — September 9, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) An artist hopes his work will be a redemptive force that helps to heal.
Islamophobia diminishes the US and must be resisted
By Bob Roberts — September 7, 2016
(RNS) 'Terrorists speak for Muslims no more than the Ku Klux Klan speaks for Christians,' write the authors, an evangelical pastor from Texas and a retired Marine Corps commandant.
Britain’s most high-profile Islamist cleric charged with IS support
By Reuters — August 5, 2015
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) Anjem Choudary, well-known for praising the Sept. 11 attacks, was accused of using lectures published online to encourage Islamic State support.
On 9/11 anniversary, a survivor seeks a National Day of Discussion (COMMENTARY)
By Greg Trevor — September 11, 2014
(RNS) Make Sept. 11 a National Day of Discussion, where Americans actively seek ways to find common ground across political, religious and cultural divides.
Muslim mother seeks justice for the son she lost on 9/11
By Omar Sacirbey — September 9, 2013
(RNS) It’s been five years now that Talat Hamdani has been able to talk about her son without crying, but she still prefers mostly not to tell his story. “It’s all over the Internet,” she said. She’s stopped talking about how she initially didn’t worry when her son, Mohammad Salman Hamdani, who was a cadet […]
How the Lord’s Prayer saved a 9/11 survivor
By Kay Campbell — September 11, 2012
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (RNS) For John Mahony, a retired U.S. Army colonel who was managing projects for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, instinct came before analysis as he fought to stay on his feet the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. By Kay Campbell.
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