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Email Us “Ministry of Brooklyn’s ‘Green Church’ Is Threatened By Community Preservationists” - News Brief, PRFA, January 2008 “Empire State Development Corporation Condemns Church to Transfer Property to Seneca Indians” - PRFA News Brief, February 2006 A non-denominational religious ministry has filed suit to stop their two-story house in Niagara Falls from being condemned by the Empire State Development Corp. for the Seneca Gaming Corp. “Case Law Accumulates Implementing the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act” - PRFA News Brief, March 2005 Churches and synagogues are bucking zoning and eminent domain by using the new federal law known as RLUIPA to defend their right to build edifices for worship and religious education and to practice their religion in various locations. “Should Synagogues That Do Not Allow Driving on the Sabbath be Required to Provide Parking?” - March 2004 Houses of worship are prospering in Flushing, but residents complain about the parking problem. A proposed New York City zoning rule would require all places of worship to provide parking in line with their largest meeting hall, but Orthodox Jews do not drive on the Sabbath. See Also

In-Depth Information “Government, the New Leviathan” - By James Bovard, Author, Public Policy Analyst, from Proceedings of the Second Annual N. Y. Conference on Private Property Rights (Property Rights Foundation of America, Oct. 19, 1996) Classical churches are becoming victims of historic preservation. St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue, New York City, was blocked by the City Landmarks Commission from selling its community house to build an office hi-rise, which would have enabled the church to fund its charitable activities.

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