Vacation Bible school to be held next month
Marvel United Methodist Church and Mountain View Community Church will host “Safari Jungle Vacation Bible School” from June 9 to June 13 at the Mountain View Community Church.
Children age 3 to teenagers are welcome. The school is free and will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants should bring a sack lunch. Money will be raised for a missionary project.
For registration forms, visit www.vacationbibleschool.com/marvelCO.
Lutheran church to host Family Sunday School
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will hold the Family Sunday School at 9:15 a.m. Sunday at the church, 2611 Junction St., on the hill directly across from Miller Middle School.
NYPD defends its use of Muslim informants
NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is taking a tough stance in a legal battle over its use of informants in the city’s Muslim community.
The department announced last month it was disbanding a unit that tracked the everyday lives of Muslims – but it is fighting a lawsuit that challenges its ongoing practice of cultivating Muslim informants to detect terror threats. The practice incudes debriefing Muslims who are stopped by police.
The lawsuit was filed last year on behalf of two Brooklyn mosques, an imam and three other plaintiffs. It asks a federal judge to declare the surveillance unconstitutional and halt it. The city has struck back by demanding to see any communications by the plaintiffs that mention terrorism, jihad or the war in Afghanistan.
The plaintiffs say the city is unjustly seeking information that’s private.
Jew, Muslim join pope’s delegation in Holy Land
VATICAN CITY – A rabbi and a Muslim leader will join Pope Francis on his upcoming trip to the Holy Land, the first time an official papal delegation has included members of other faiths, the Vatican said Thursday.
Francis’ two longtime friends and collaborators from his days as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud, a leader of Argentina’s Islamic community, are on the official delegation for the May 24-26 trip to Jordan, the West Bank and Israel.
Herald Staff & Associated Press
