2009年6月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News
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Correction: Megachurch Survey story (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:44 PM PDT

AP - In a June 9 story about a survey of megachurch attendance, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a study showed that worshippers at such churches volunteer less than other churchgoers. The study found that nearly 45 percent of megachurch attenders never volunteer at their church, but it did not include comparable data on volunteer rates at churches of all sizes.

Religion news in brief (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 08:52 AM PDT

AP - Popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has banned Scientology's more vocal friends and foes from editing articles about the religion, a move that worries some in the Internet community.

Prison seminary program gives inmates 2nd chance (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 08:23 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Mississippi State Penitentiary inmate Michael Anthony Wilson, left, shakes the hand of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps after receiving his  Bachelor of Arts degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's Christian Ministry program in Parchman, Miss. Twenty eight inmates were conferred degrees. Wilson was initially sentenced to 27 years at the state prison for aggravated assault and armed robbery charges. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - The graduates patted each other's backs, and nervously chatted with their families. Some sat quietly, meditating about their future while others wept.


Okla. braces for challenge to Ten Commandments law (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:53 PM PDT

AP - Backers of a new law authorizing a privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of Oklahoma's Capitol didn't get good news this week.
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