Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Work Resumes on Church Destroyed on 9/11/01; Abp. Elpidophoros, Gov. Cuomo Praise Building

After a three-year halt due to financial problems, work resumed yesterday on a Greek Orthodox Church being built to replace the one destroyed by Muslim terrorists in the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, the Religion News website reports today (August 4, 2020).

Archbishop Elpidophoros, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, stood on a balcony on the unfinished church, and used holy water and sprigs of basil to bless the construction of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine of the World Trade Center.

"We have heard the voice of the Lord and we are rebuilding our church," he said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was there to see work resume, said the continuing reconstruction is more proof of New Yorkers' persistence to rise from the ashes of the terror attacks.

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