2009年7月13日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 05:20 PM PDT

Nationalist demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon behind a mailbox in Belfast Monday July 13 2009 . Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police Monday as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end.   Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, were trying to block a parade by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood. (AP Photo)AP - Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police all night Monday as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end.


Pope urges Iraq to work for peace following church bombings (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 10:21 AM PDT

Iraqi police stand outside the Saint Mary Church in central Baghdad. Security was ramped up in Christian areas of Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after deadly bombings which left church leaders in dismay over the assailants and their motives.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI called on Iraq's leaders Monday to work to ensure peace between the country's communities following bomb attacks on churches that left four dead.


Pope on vacation in the Italian Alps (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:53 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has traveled to a village in the Italian Alps for two weeks of vacation.
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