WORK RESUMES TO REBUILD CHURCH DESTROYED ON 9/11

New York, Aug. 4: After a three year halt due to financial problems, work resumed on Monday on a Greek Orthodox church being built to replace one destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center on September. 11, 2001.

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 at the World Trade Centre.

“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. “This St. Nicholas is going to be more splendid and more inviting than the St. Nicholas that was here before,” he said. — AP