2008年12月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

SUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 06:05 PM CST

A pastor prays for the future of the American auto industry during a special service called 'A Hybrid Hope' at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, December 7, 2008. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)Reuters - With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.


Pope urges prayers for soul of Russia's Alexy II (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 06:43 AM CST

Metropolitan Kirill, the Russian Orthodox church's foreign relations chief, who was as interim leader, makes a prayer near a casket with late Patriarch Alexy's body, not seen, in Moscow Christ the Savior Cathedra in Moscow Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. Alexy II, who died Friday at age 79, led the church for 18 years, from the last year of the officially atheistic Soviet Union through a massive revival that saw it become the world's largest Orthodox church. Alexy's body was taken Saturday to the huge Christ the Savior Cathedral for three days of public viewing and a Tuesday funeral.  (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers for the soul of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II.


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