2009年8月7日星期五

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Bombs targeting Shi'ite Muslims kill 44 in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 09:26 AM PDT

A resident looks at the site of bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Ako RasheedReuters - A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims.


Malaysian state rejects Islamic party's push for alcohol ban (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 09:01 AM PDT

A Malaysian woman walks past a shop selling alcoholic drinks in Kuala Lumpur. An opposition-controlled Malaysian state on Friday rejected a demand by Muslim fundamentalists to ban the sale of alcohol at convenience stores in Muslim-majority areas.(AFP/File/Shamshahrin Shamsudin)AFP - An opposition-controlled Malaysian state on Friday rejected a demand by Muslim fundamentalists to ban the sale of alcohol at convenience stores in Muslim-majority areas.


English Anglicans breathe life into French chapels (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:12 AM PDT

Reverend Gill Stratchan, an Anglican priest, celebrates an Anglican service in a old stone French Roman Catholic chapel in Bordeaux. In southwest France, once a battlefield between medieval English and French armies, expats are breathing life into borrowed Catholic churches left empty by their local flocks, quietly sprouting a dozen Anglican congregations.(AFP/File/Patrick Bernard)AFP - The priest is a married woman, the Anglican service is in English, yet the old stone chapel in Bordeaux is definitely 100 percent French Roman Catholic.


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