2008年9月21日星期日

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

Renovation plans unveiled for Chicago church (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 09:39 PM CDT

AP - Architects and church leaders have unveiled a $37 million plan to rebuild a landmark 1890 church on Chicago's South Side that played a major role in the development of gospel music.

Muslim meat workers to discuss prayer conflict (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:17 PM CDT

AP - Muslim workers involved in a prayer dispute at a Grand Island meatpacking plant are scheduled to meet Sunday to decide what to do next.

Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:13 PM CDT

This July 30, 2005 photo shows an excavation of an 11th-12th century house made of hard-burnt bricks in Itil, a Silk Road city that served as the Khazar capital, near Astrakhan, about 800 miles (1280 km) south of Moscow, The Khazars established the first feudal state in eastern Europe. A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazar empire, a powerful medieval state that once stretched from the northern shores of the Black Sea to Central Asia and whose rulers adopted Judaism as their state religion. (AP Photo/Dmitry Vasilyev)AP - A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture.


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