2009年3月8日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Hundreds pray for Ill. pastor slain during sermon (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 05:33 PM PDT

Mourners enter Metro Community Church for a prayer service Sunday, March 8, 2009, in Edwardsville, Ill. A gunman walked down the aisle of the First Baptist Church in nearby Maryville, Ill., during a Sunday service and killed the pastor, then stabbed himself and two others as congregants wrestled him to the ground, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - A colleague of the Illinois pastor slain while delivering a sermon at his church in a St. Louis suburb has urged mourners at a prayer service to be resilient after the "attack from the forces of hell."

The Fertility Doctor Behind the "Octomom" (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The mother of America's only set of living octuplets worships her fertlity doctor even as others questions his methods

Suicidal gunman opens fire at US church, killing pastor (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 02:33 PM PDT

A suicidal gunman shot and killed a pastor in an Illinois church on Sunday morning and then pulled out a knife and began stabbing himself when the gun jammed, police said.(First Baptist Church of Maryville)AFP - A suicidal gunman shot and killed a pastor in an Illinois church on Sunday morning before pulling out a knife and stabbing himself when the gun jammed, police said.

Police: Ill. pastor deflected gunshot with Bible (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 04:33 PM PDT

People stand outside of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. Sunday March 8, 2009 after a man killed a pastor and injured others at the church. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, John L. White)AP - A pastor shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman's four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene that congregants initially thought was a skit, police said.

Pope to visit Holy Land in May (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 09:17 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday March 8, 2009. The Pontiff says he will visit the Holy Land on May 8-15 in the first papal trip to the area since 2000. Benedict announced the dates of the long-planned pilgrimage following his traditional noontime blessing on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday he would visit the Holy Land from May 8-15 in the first papal trip to the area since 2000.

Renaissance painting stolen from Norwegian church (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 09:11 AM PDT

AP - A 450-year-old painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder has been stolen from a Lutheran church in the southern Norway town of Larvik, police said Sunday.

Resurgent Georgian Church sees influence soar (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 10:21 PM PST

Georgian flag flies over Orthodox Svetiskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, 25 kms outside Tbilisi, in February. Nearly two decades after Georgia split from the staunchly atheist Soviet Union, such is the influence of the country's Orthodox Church, which has undergone a remarkable resurgence to become one of the most trusted and powerful institutions in Georgia.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)AFP - When the head of Georgia's Orthodox Church offered to become godfather to every third child born to a family last year, the response was nothing short of miraculous.

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