2008年11月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Catholic bishops re-examining message after vote (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:29 AM CST

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, left, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Monsignor David J. Malloy, right, of Milwaukee, general secretary of the conference, applaud during the conference's semi-annual meeting Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 in Baltimore. The bishops are expected to discuss this week their relationship with Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)AP - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, meeting a week after the election, are re-examining how they explain church teaching after President-elect Obama, who supports abortion rights, won a majority of Catholic votes.


Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 05:41 PM CST

Holocaust survivors Ernest Michel, 85, left, and Roman Kent, 83, look at a list of Holocaust victims who were posthumously baptized following a news conference in New York, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. Michel, honorary chairman of the America Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Kent, the group's chairman, said  they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. The pair are standing beside photograph of Michel's family arriving at Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.


Kosovo boasts of Western ways despite Muslim heritage (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 11:03 AM CST

A view of the city mosque across from the parliament in Kosovo's capital of Pristina. Flashy lights, techno beats and alcohol-fueled dancing are a regular late night scene in Kosovo, keen to show its fervour for Western culture despite its many Muslims and mosques.(AFP/File/Armend Nimani)AFP - Flashy lights, techno beats and alcohol-fueled dancing are a regular late night scene in Kosovo, keen to show its fervour for Western culture despite its many Muslims and mosques.


Jewish group mulls charges over neo-Nazi Obama slurs (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 09:48 AM CST

A picture taken in 2007 shows Juergen Gansel, delegate of the right extremist NPD party at the Saxonian parliament in Dresden, eastern Germany. A prominent Jewish group said Monday it was reviewing legal options against a German neo-Nazi party for AFP - A prominent Jewish group said Monday it was reviewing legal options against a German neo-Nazi party for "racist" remarks calling Barack Obama's election a "declaration of war" on non-white America.


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