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Pastor Kienzle at the pulpit of the Park Church Co-Op. Photo courtesy of Park Church Co-Op

Faith In Brooklyn for June 14

Park Church Co-Op Launches Drive To Expand Membership, Ministries … Full Article

The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, former presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, is this year’s Feminist Scholar-in-Residence at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights. Photo courtesy of Grace Church Brooklyn Heights.

Faith In Brooklyn for May 31

Dr. Elan Ezrachi will discuss the relationship world Jewry and Israel at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue on June 7. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue.

Faith In Brooklyn for May 24

Members of Brooklyn's Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities gathered at a 2016 interfaith iftar dinner. Left to right: Carmen Catalino, Imam Abdallah Allam, Pastor Khader El-Yateem, Douglas Jablon and Dr. Ahmad Jaber. Eagle file photo by Francesca N. Tate

Jewish, Muslim teens share interfaith dinner

Park Church Co-Op Launches Drive To Expand Membership, Ministries The Park Church Co-Op, a Lutheran ministry serving Greenpoint, has launched a drive to grow the congregation and increase donations, with the goal of being self-sustaining by the end of this year. … Full Article

Faith In Brooklyn for May 31

Episcopal Church’s 1st Woman Presiding Bishop Is Feminist Scholar-in-Residence at Heights Church Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Elected in 2006, Served Until 2015 … Full Article

Faith In Brooklyn for May 24

Discussion at Heights Synagogue To Examine Israel on its 70th Birthday … Full Article

Jewish, Muslim teens share interfaith dinner

In the Middle East, some Jews and Muslims may be fighting it out, but in Sheepshead Bay, youthful members of the two religions got together on Thursday for an interfaith celebration of Iftar, the monthly meal during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. … Full Article

Ed Wilkinson, left, receives the St. Francis De Sales Distinguished Communicator Award from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. Eagle photos by Francesca N. Tate

Faith in Brooklyn for May 21

Lifelong Brooklynite Ed Wilkinson was honored last week at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s World Communications Day for his nearly five decades of working with the Catholic press—specifically the Tablet, published by the Diocese and read by Catholic households in Br … Full Article