2009年5月17日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Fire during services guts decades-old Mass. church (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Gay couples who brought the landmark lawsuit that led to the first legalized gay marriages in the United States pose for a photo during a reunion in Newton Mass, Sunday, May, 17, 2009, celebrate their fifth anniversaries, five years after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. Pictured are, front row, from left, Gina Nortonsmith, Avery Nortonsmith, 12, Heidi Nortonsmith, Quinn Nortonsmith, 9, all of Northampton, Mass., Attorney Mary Banato, who heard the landmark case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Ellen Wade, Maureen Brodoff, of Newton, Mass., Rob Compton, and David Wilson, of Boston, Ed Balmelli, and Michael Hogan of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Gary Chalmers and Richard Linnell, of Whitinsville, Mass., and Gloria Bailey-Davies and Linda Bailey Davies, of Orleans, Mass., (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - A fire that began during Sunday morning services at a crowded Massachusetts church has quickly spread through the decades-old building and gutted it.

Obama seeks 'common ground' on abortion (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2009 02:09 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during the commencement ceremony in the Joyce Center of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. Obama sought AFP - President Barack Obama sought "common ground" in the culture war over abortion, in a politically thorny address Sunday at one of the top Catholic universities in the United States.

Church Politics: Why the Pope Is Sidestepping Notre Dame (Time.com)

Posted: 16 May 2009 10:20 PM PDT

A Notre Dame police officer, left, instructs anti-abortion protestors to leave the campus during an anti-abortion protest Saturday, May 16, 2009 in South Bend, Indiana. The protestors object to the selection of President Barack Obama as the Notre Dame Commencement speaker. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)Time.com - Church Politics: Why the Pope Is Sidestepping Notre Dame

City: Bunkerlike DC church can be demolished (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2009 08:56 PM PDT

File -- In this file photo from Dec. 11, 2007, the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, is seen in Washington. The historic downtown Washington church that more closely resembles a concrete bunker than a house of worship can be demolished because the 'brutalist' structure's upkeep is so expensive it would eventually bankrupt the congregation, a city official has ruled. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - A historic downtown Washington church that more closely resembles a concrete bunker than a house of worship can be demolished because the structure's upkeep is so expensive it would eventually bankrupt the congregation, a city official has ruled.

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