2009年5月1日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

New book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 05:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of June 1, 1939, the German liner St. Louis is denied entrance to the Havana, Cuba harbor. The ship, carrying 917 German Jewish refugees, was later denied entrance to the United States and returned to Hamburg, Germany. A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department. (AP Photo, file)AP - A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

At bird hospital, treatment on a wing and a prayer (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 11:16 AM PDT

A parrot rests in a cage at the Jain Charity Birds' Hospital in New Delhi in April 2009. Y.D. Gaur enforces one paramount rule at the speciality hospital where he works in New Delhi: No patient, once cured, is ever allowed to return home. Instead, they just fly away.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - Y.D. Gaur enforces one paramount rule at the speciality hospital where he works in New Delhi: No patient, once cured, is ever allowed to return home. Instead, they just fly away.

Muslim shrines bear witness to Iraq's Jews (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 09:08 AM PDT

Bashir Zaalan, a Shiite Muslim Iraqi who cares for the shrine of Ezra, in the southern Iraqi town of Al-Azair near Basra, points to Hebrew script etched on the doors of wall cupboards at the shrine which used to house the Jewish Torah scrolls in April 2009. Ezra, the towering scholar of Jewish law, is said to have led several hundred Israelites back to Jerusalem in the 5th century BC.(AFP/File)AFP - Nearly everyone who could read the Hebrew verses carved into the walls of Ezekiel's tomb left Iraq almost 60 years ago, but their memory is preserved in what is today a revered Muslim shrine.

Israel issues special stamps ahead of pope visit (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:52 AM PDT

An Israeli postal authority worker arranges booklets of stamps printed ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Holy Land, at a warehouse in Jaffa, Israel, Thursday, April 30, 2009. The stamps show the different sites the Pope is expected to visit. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - The Israeli postal service has issued a dozen special stamps marking the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Holy Land.

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