2009年3月12日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Tenn. church shooter hoped attack would spur more (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:56 PM PDT

AP - An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.

Oral Roberts U, Mo. ministry get accreditation (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - Two evangelical Christian institutions under scrutiny for past financial practices have won accreditation from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, the group announced Thursday.

Christians optimistic but disappointed in Obama (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 03:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leaves the podium after making remarks on earmark reform, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Conservative evangelical and Catholic leaders who went out on a political limb by aligning themselves with the Obama administration are expressing feelings ranging from disappointment to optimism in their reaction to the president's decisions so far on culture war issues.

Pope: Vatican made errors in Holocaust denial case (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 12:49 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, greets Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi in the Israeli city of Haifa, on the occasion of the pontiff's meeting with with a delegation of Israel's chief rabbinate, part of regularly planned consultations to discuss aspects of Catholic and Jewish religious teachings, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 12, 2009. Benedict XVI has acknowledged Vatican mistakes over a Holocaust-denying bishop and his efforts to reach out to ultraconservatives, saying in a highly unusual critical review that he was saddened that even Catholics attacked him with open hostility. The pope made a personal analysis of the case in a letter to the world's Catholic bishops made public by the Vatican on Thursday, seeking to end one of the most serious crises of his nearly four-year papacy. At center is German cardinal Walter Kasper. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Pope Benedict XVI has made an unusual public acknowledgment of Vatican mistakes and turmoil in his church over an outreach to ultraconservatives that led to his lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.

Text of pope letter on Holocaust denier case (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 08:02 AM PDT

AP - Text of the letter Pope Benedict XVI sent the world's Catholic bishops about the Vatican's handling of the controversy over a Holocaust-denying bishop. It was made public by the Vatican on Thursday.

Catholics protest 'maltreatment' by Conn. leaders (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Catholics gather at the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn., to protest legislation, which has already been withdrawn, that would have changed how parish finances are handled, on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Thousands of Roman Catholics descended on the Connecticut statehouse Wednesday, as simmering resentment over bills they consider anti-Catholic reached a boiling point with a recent legislative attempt to give parishioners more say over parish financing.

Catholics protest Connecticut church finance bill (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Thousands of Roman Catholics demonstrated in Connecticut on Wednesday against a state government proposal to shift control of parish finances to lay officials from priests and bishops.

Not guilty plea made for church shooting suspect (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 02:06 PM PDT

Words of support for the First Baptist Church are shown on the marquis at Troy United Methodist Church Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in Maryville, Ill. (AP Photo/The News-Democrat, Steve Nagy)AP - An attorney for a man accused of gunning down an Illinois pastor and wounding two churchgoers with a knife entered a not guilty plea for his client in court.

Report: Pope says `mistakes' on Holocaust denier (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:41 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has sent a letter to Roman Catholic bishops around the globe saying the Vatican made "mistakes" in its handling of the recent lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying cleric, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Darwin article causes flap in Muslim Turkey (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:37 PM PDT

AP - Turkish university students and teachers on Wednesday protested the removal of an article about Charles Darwin from a state-run science magazine amid concerns that secular views are under threat in the Muslim country.

Religion news in brief (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 06:53 AM PDT

AP - Maine's courts and the Cumberland County Jail are modifying their rules regarding head coverings in order to accommodate the practices of Muslims and people of other faiths.

'Sex-y' sermons cause stir in rural Alabama (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 04:44 AM PDT

Jerry Lawson, lead pastor at Daystar Church in Good Hope, Ala., discusses his ``Great Sex: God's Way'' sermon series in this photograph taken Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Some people in the rural community are offended by the church's discussion of sex and the billboards it used to promote the sermons. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - It's one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene.

Stem cell decision exposes religious divides (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 09:22 PM PDT

In this Oct. 22, 2008 file photo, Theresa Gratsch, a Ph.D. research specialist, expands human embryonic stem cells under a microscope at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan announced Monday, March 9, 2009 it was launching the state's first major embryonic stem cell research program since voters eased restrictions on such work in November of 2008. The university unveiled plans the same day President Barack Obama signed an executive order that ends former President George W. Bush's limits on using federal dollars for stem cell research. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - The embryonic stem cell research debate is steeped with religious arguments, with some faith traditions convinced the research amounts to killing innocent life, others citing the moral imperative to alleviate suffering, and plenty of religious believers caught somewhere in between.

More Americans say they have no religion (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 09:14 PM PDT

Children walk back to their pews after listening to the reading of a religious story at the foot of the church's altar Sunday morning, Feb. 8, 2009. Approximately 100 parishioners are in their fifth year holding vigil at the church and celebrate a Sunday service, which are not actual Masses, each week that includes music, prayers, readings from the Gospel and offering of the Eucharist. They and others are involved in a string of sit-ins going on round-the-clock for more than four years at five Roman Catholic churches closed by the Boston Archdiocese. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Ill. churchgoer wonders if he acted quickly enough (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 08:59 PM PDT

AP - A churchgoer credited with helping subdue a gunman who shot and killed a southern Illinois pastor says he questions whether he acted quickly enough to stop the violence.

Gunman stuns US churchgoers, kills pastor (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 07:46 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 gunman stunned parishioners at a midwestern US church when he strolled into a service and opened fire, spraying the pastor's Bible with bullets before shooting him dead at point-blank range.

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