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An atheist group is suing to prevent the World Trade Center Cross from being put on display at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The 17 foot steel crossbeam was found in the wreckage at Ground Zero in the days after the September 11 attacks. For many, the cross was a symbol of hope during a time of tragedy. …

The September 11 cross is lowered by crane into a subterranean section of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Saturday, July 23, 2011 in New York. NEW YORK  -- A cross-shaped steel beam found amid the wreckage in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a symbol of hope for many working on rescue and recovery there, so much so that the construction worker who discovered it believes he stumbled on to a miracle. "I saw Calvary in the midst of all the wreckage, the disaster," Frank Silecchia recalled Saturday. "It was a sign ... that God...

The iconic Ground Zero beam known as The Cross was transferred yesterday to St. Peter's Church at Church and Barclay Sts. The Cross is actually a T-beam, one of many that connected floors in Building 6. But it is so much more than that. The beam is a sign that God never abandoned us during and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Despite some objections to The Cross, it is not meant to offend non-Christians. It is a symbol of faith - faith in God, faith in people. All people. If the image offends, then so too must the crosslike...

Workers on Thursday began removing the cross-shaped steel beams that were left standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center five years ago, and prepared to move them to a temporary home at a nearby church. The 20-foot-tall artifact was discovered in the smoking ruins two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and became a symbol for recovery workers, family and later construction crews at the site. It will be moved to the exterior wall of nearby St. Peter's Church during construction at the trade center site. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has said it plans...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A steel beam in the symmetrical shape of a cross — a remnant from the World Trade Center wreckage — has drawn criticism from an atheist group, which objects to the artifact being kept at ground zero as a religious emblem. The trade center site is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bistate governmental agency that also operates the region's three major airports and bridges and tunnels connecting the two states. "Many people who died on September 11 weren't Christian. There were Jews, Muslims, and atheists who died," Ellen Johnson,...

DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Atheists still fighting against WTC cross Group calls symbol an 'insult' to non-Christians -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Just shy of the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, an atheist organization is once again warning against using a steel-beam cross at the site of the World Trade Center disaster from being used in a permanent memorial to the victims who died there. "Many people who died on Sept. 11 weren't Christian. There were Jews, Muslims and atheists who died," Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, told the Trentonian newspaper....

NEW YORK (Talon News) -- An atheist group is fighting an effort to place a cross at the site of the World Trade Center towers as a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The American Atheists, which was begun by renowned anti-Christian activist Madalyn Murray O'Hare before she died, are opposed to displaying the 20-foot tall cross that was found by a rescue worker named Frank Silecchia in the midst of the rubble just a few days after the buildings collapsed. Silecchia said he "cried for 20 minutes after his discovery," the Associated Press...

DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Atheists still fighting against WTC cross Group calls symbol an 'insult' to non-Christians Posted: September 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Just shy of the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, an atheist organization is once again warning against using a steel-beam cross at the site of the World Trade Center disaster from being used in a permanent memorial to the victims who died there. "Many people who died on Sept. 11 weren't Christian. There were Jews, Muslims and atheists who died," Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, told the Trentonian newspaper. "This...