2008年9月2日星期二

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

Opinions vary at church that shuns politics (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 08:49 PM CDT

Tyler Gregory, a pastor at Eagle Brook Church in Lino Lakes, Minn., talks to parishioners after service on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin in nearby St. Paul on Monday. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter)AP - The message from the pulpit was "Wine, Water and Worship" — with no mention of the other "W," George W. Bush.


Betancourt: meeting pope 'a dream come true' (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 12:22 PM CDT

Photo provided by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper showing former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, right, with Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Monday Sept. 1, 2008. Betancourt met with the pontiff Monday to thank him for his prayers during her captivity, the Vatican said. Betancourt, who was released July 2, had expressed a desire to meet the pontiff. The former presidential candidate in Colombia credited her religious faith with helping her survive more than six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle at the hands of leftist rebels known as FARC. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)AP - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt on Monday was able at last to thank Pope Benedict XVI, the man whose voice she said reached deep into the Colombian jungle "like a light" to comfort her during captivity.


Fasting not fighting as Muslims mark Ramadan (AFP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 12:20 PM CDT

A Palestinian man walks in the old city of Hebron on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.(AFP/Hazem Bader)AFP - Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.


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