Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• British Foreign Office minister resigns (AP)
• Pope proposes new financial order guided by ethics (AP)
• Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy (Reuters)
• Stars sing for Jackson in emotional farewell (Reuters)
• Han Chinese protesters seek Muslim Uighur targets (Reuters)
• Obama preaches democracy to Moscow students (AP)
• Buddhism thrives as China relaxes religious policy (AFP)

British Foreign Office minister resigns (AP) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - Britain's Foreign Office minister Mark Malloch Brown says he will resign at the end of the month for family and personal reasons.

Pope proposes new financial order guided by ethics (AP) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 01:38 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown.

Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 12:25 PM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.

Stars sing for Jackson in emotional farewell (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 01:09 PM PDT Reuters - Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Usher led an emotional public memorial for Michael Jackson on Tuesday as the music world, the Jackson family and thousands of fans bade farewell to the "King of Pop."

Han Chinese protesters seek Muslim Uighur targets (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 11:33 AM PDT Reuters - Han Chinese armed with iron bars and machetes roamed Urumqi city on Tuesday looking to wreak revenge on Uighurs for bloody ethnic clashes two days earlier which killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.

Obama preaches democracy to Moscow students (AP) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 01:19 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is preaching the gospel of democracy to students in Russia.

Buddhism thrives as China relaxes religious policy (AFP) Posted: 07 Jul 2009 12:53 AM PDT AFP - Temples thrive, monks travel far and wide in search of enlightenment, the faithful fill the halls of worship -- after decades of atheist policies, Buddhism is making a huge comeback in China.

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