2009年3月23日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

Pope names bishop for Oakland (AP)

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

In this undated handout still released by Film Polski, Jews from the town of Zareby are seen dancing. The still is from a new documentary patchwork of home videos made mostly by American Jews visiting relatives in the 1930s in Polish towns . The movie 'Po-Lin, Slivers of Memory' was conceived by Polish camerawoman Jolanta Dylewska, who was inspired to make the film after coming across one of the home movies in Jerusalem archives in 1996. (AP Photo/ Film Polski, HO)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

An undated handout picture made available by Ada Masella, showing Italian photojournalist Gianni Giansanti who died after a long illness in Rome, Wednesday March 18, 2009. He was 52. Giansanti's career began as a freelancer in 1977 and in 1978 at 22, his picture of the body of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro, who was found dead in a car after being kidnapped by terrorists of the Red Brigades, gained him world wide fame. In 1998 he won the first prize of the Wolrd Press Photo for a reportage on a day in the life of Pope John Paul II and in 1993 he was awarded the Picture of the Year prize by the University of Missouri for a reportage on the famine in Somalia. His professional work includes over 25 years of Vatican coverage, social and environmental reportages in Africa and in the world of different sports like car racing and soccer. Most recently he had approached the new challenge of the multimedia. (AP Photo/Ada Masella, HO)  NO SALESAP - 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.


Disgraced pastor, wife to appear on TV show (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 11:19 PM PDT

AP - Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard and his wife are planning another TV appearance, this time to talk about their marriage.
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