9/11

“On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers and people from around the world converged in a spectacle of hope and grief at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.” - CPost

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“One of the most important ministries my fellow chaplains and I performed was escorting families to the sacred site. I remember persuading a New York lieutenant to allow chaplains to accompany 50 grieving family members to Ground Zero.” - Baptist Press

“Sneering types dislike the contention that the United States was attacked ‘for its freedom.’ I do not. Regardless, we can surely agree that the United States was attacked with its freedom.

“Keith recounts walking to a pastors’ prayer meeting at the Empire State Building, learning of the first crash, watching the North Tower fall from an office window, and later handing out water to people walking home when transportation shut down.” - Denison

“If you are of a certain age, you knew exactly where you were that fateful day, 24 years ago. I was… working at a Christian ministry. The broadcast on a local Chicago talk show was interrupted by the news anchor, first with a low-key announcement that a ‘plane of some kind’ had hit one of the World Trade Center towers.” - World

“While there was a temporary rise in church attendance, the numbers soon returned to pre-9/11 levels. The immediate increase in attendance did not translate into a sustained commitment to religious practices or beliefs.” - Church Answers

“[Khalid Shaikh] Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.” - BPNews

Podcast: “In the second episode of the Remembering 9/11 series, Sarah Zylstra tells the rest of Christina and Brian Stanton’s story—a return to an apartment littered with scraps of World Trade Center papers, an attempt to cope on their own, and an encounter with a church called Redeemer Presbyterian.” - TGC

Twenty years after terrorist attack, the spiritual needs of survivors continue.