2008年10月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Farrakhan says 'new beginning' for Nation of Islam (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 03:27 AM CDT

AP - The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a "new beginning" for the group.

Mormon group protests church's gay marriage stance (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 09:41 PM CDT

Peter Danzig, left, and Andrew Callahan deliver signed petitions to Kim Farah, a representative of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Friday Oct. 17, 2008 in Salt Lake City. Mormons who support gay marriage delivered ribbon-tied packets of protest letters and bundles of carnations to church headquarters Friday in an appeal to end the faith's support of a California ballot proposition that would ban same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson)AP - A group of Mormons who support gay marriage delivered protest letters and bundles of carnations to church headquarters Friday in an appeal to end the church's support of a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California.


French Jewish group opposes Pius XII sainthood (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:12 PM CDT

An image depicting Pope Pius XII is displayed at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 15, 2007. (Yonathan Weitzman/Reuters)AP - France's main Jewish organization warned Friday that efforts to make wartime Pope Pius XII a saint would deal "a severe blow" to relations between Catholics and Jews.


Evangelicals are in the news, but not in newsrooms (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 12:56 PM CDT

Terry Mattingly, Director of the Washington Journalism Center for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and a religion columnist for Scripps Howard News Service, leads a class in how to be effective journalists at a Christian-based college, at his office near the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Here is a foolproof way for politicians to score points with evangelical voters: Attack the media, an institution widely seen as lacking conservative Christian voices.


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