The Brooklyn Ink

Local Coptic Christians Pray for Peace in Egypt

Coptic Christians in Brooklyn have come together at the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. George, nicknamed 'the Ellis Island of the Coptic community', in Dyker Heights to pray for peace in Egypt.

Chinese Mormon Church: How Mormons Are Using English Language To Reach Immigrants

Our reporter Omar Akhtar visits a Mormon church that uses English to reach out to Chinese immigrants.

Missionary Finds a Graying Flock

By Lillian Rizzo At the age of 79, Peters is a missionary from a Passionist monastery in Jamaica, Queens. He visited the church at 430 Avenue W to give a series of talks on becoming a more dedicated Catholic and creating a better life.

Brooklyn Catholics Seek Deliverance

Catholic leaders in New York have named today a “diocesan day of prayer” in the face of diminishing communicants and clergy. The New York Daily News reported Sunday and this morning that the Diocese of [...]

Video – Brooklyn Church Reaches out to Sister Parish in Port Au Prince

Rev. Verel Montauban is the pastor at the First Haitian Church of the Brethren in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. He also ministers to a sister congregation in Haiti. Their church, Croix de Mission, was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake.

Brooklyn Catholics Riven over Abuse Scandal

By Jeannette Neumann For many of Brooklyn’s faithful, the holiest week in the Catholic calendar was marred by accusations of anti-Catholic bigotry on the one hand and claims of criminal cover-ups on the other. The [...]

Unholy War Over Parking Spots, Bike Lanes

Nothing gets the neighbors more riled up than parking spots or wayward cyclists. Put the two together, throw in a 188-year-old church, and it’s pretty much the perfect storm. The First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn [...]

Old Greek Church

By Stefanos Chen   The service was already running late when the priest asked the choir to join him at the altar. It took close to three minutes for the elderly choir members to walk [...]