2009年2月9日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

For the first time, Christians in Qatar worship in church (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - When the Rev. Tomasito Veneracion arrived in this Muslim nation seven years ago, his Roman Catholic parishioners prayed in small groups scattered in apartments, schools, and one tiny makeshift chapel. At Easter, Indian Catholics gathered in one place, Filipinos in another, Arabs in yet another.

Holocaust-denier removed from Argentine seminary (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 08:38 PM CST

Bishop Richard Williamson is pictured at Frankfurt airport in this February 28, 2007 file photo. (Jens Falk/Files/Reuters)Reuters - An ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop who has drawn sharp criticism from the Vatican and Jewish groups for denying the extent of the Holocaust was removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, a Catholic Church official said on Sunday.


Buddhism on TV should be approved: Cambodian PM (AFP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 06:56 PM CST

A young buddhist monk takes pictures of his fellow monks oustide the Temple of Angkor near siem Reap, Cambodia. Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Sunday called for television shows related to Buddhism to be approved by clergy after the country's first rock opera was deemed insulting to the religion.(AFP/File/Voishmel)AFP - Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Sunday called for television shows related to Buddhism to be approved by clergy after the country's first rock opera was deemed insulting to the religion.


German leader calls pope about Holocaust denier (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 05:54 PM CST

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience in Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a 'very clear' rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican's rehabilitation of a former bishop who questioned whether 6 million Jews were gassed by the Nazis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The German chancellor called the pope Sunday, days after she demanded he clarify the Vatican's stance on the Holocaust after it lifted the excommunication of a bishop who denies six million Jews were killed.


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