2009年5月6日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News

Obama plans a scaled back National Day of Prayer (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 11:20 AM PDT

AP - The White House is planning a muted observance of Thursday's National Day of Prayer, a response that has disappointed both Christian conservatives and an atheist group that wants to end the tradition.

Religion news in brief (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 10:06 AM PDT

AP - The Roman Catholic bishop of an eastern Pennsylvania diocese has criticized a local Catholic college's decision to have U.S. Sen. Bob Casey speak at its graduation ceremony later this month.

Vision for college unswayed by recession (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 10:00 AM PDT

In this photo taken on March 4, 2009, the new church on the Ave Maria University campus is seen in Immokalee, Fla. The Catholic campus and surrounding city was the vision of billionaire Thomas Monaghan. The recession has slowed construction but Monaghan optimistic that his vision of a town and university steeped in conservative Catholic teaching will be built. (AP Photo/Mitch Stacy)AP - Near the magnificent new church on the Ave Maria University campus, sculptor Marton Varo chips away at 80 tons of the best white marble money can buy, direct from the same Italian quarry where Michelangelo used to get his.


Catholic cardinal: IRA dissidents shame Ireland (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT

AP - IRA splinter groups still plotting gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland are shaming the people of Ireland and betraying the memory of its patriot dead, the leader of the island's 4 million Catholics declared Wednesday.
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