2008年10月9日星期四

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

Mormons renew calls for Calif. gay marriage ban (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:30 AM CDT

AP - Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California.

Chinese Muslims' release into US blocked for now (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:27 AM CDT

File photo shows a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay being escorted by two US Army military police officers. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AP - A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What's a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?


US court blocks release of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:40 AM CDT

An exterior view taken in January of the Pentagon's new prefabricated high-tech court complex at Guantanamo Bay naval base. A US appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as President George W. Bush's administration scrambles to appeal it.(AFP/File)AFP - A US appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as President George W. Bush's administration scrambles to appeal it.


50 years on, Nazi-era pope stirs controversy (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:52 PM CDT

Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the tomb of the Pius XII (pope from 1939 to 1958), in the crypt of St-Peter's basilica at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI was set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of pope Pius XII on Thursday as the Vatican vowed that history would exonerate the controversial Nazi-era pontiff.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI was set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of pope Pius XII on Thursday as the Vatican vowed that history would exonerate the controversial Nazi-era pontiff.


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