Yahoo! News: Religion News

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:40 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has named a San Diego clergyman to be bishop of Oakland, California.

Polish documentary shows prewar Jewish life (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:53 AM PDT

AP - Poland's Jews were nearly wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust, then the communists who ruled the country for decades after World War II waged anti-Semitic campaigns and made Jewish history a taboo topic.

Chicagoan charged with threatening Jewish school (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 05:24 PM PDT

AP - A 24-year-old Chicago man was charged Friday with threatening to set off explosives near Jewish schools in the metropolitan area if Israel didn't halt military actions in Gaza.

'Music church' settles case against Pa. county (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:09 PM PDT

AP - A landowner who incorporated a non-denominational Christian church for people who love "jam band" music can hold a limited number of concerts each year under an agreement that settles his religious freedom lawsuit against a southwestern Pennsylvania county.

Italian famed for Moro, pope photos, dies in Rome (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:04 PM PDT

AP - Gianni Giansanti, an award-winning Italian photographer who snapped candid portraits of Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimages, has died in Rome after battling bone cancer, his colleagues said. He was 52.