2009年8月13日星期四

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Jam band concerts banned at Pa. 'music church' (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - Church is out, at least temporarily, for a group that claims its jam band concerts are religious services.

US accuses India over religious freedom (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 09:59 AM PDT

Indian Muslim girls offer Friday Prayers at MescoGrades minority school in the old city of Hyderabad, in 2007. An official US commission accused ally India of failing to protect Christian and Muslim minorities from violent attacks, prompting a denial Thursday from New Delhi.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)AFP - An official US commission accused ally India of failing to protect Christian and Muslim minorities from violent attacks, prompting a denial Thursday from New Delhi.


Muslim ex-inmate settles prison treatment lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 08:43 AM PDT

AP - A former inmate who accused federal prison workers in Illinois of defiling his Quran and torturing him with a nightstick when he complained has settled his civil rights lawsuit for $48,000, one of his attorneys said Thursday.

Just who are these health care protesters? (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:22 PM PDT

Randy Hook, 50, of Hopewell, Pa., yells at Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., during a town hall meeting on health care in a Penn State University ballroom in State College, Pa, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. More than 400 attended. Opponents occasionally drowned out the Republican-turned-Democrat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Nancy Snyder says she kept quiet when abortion was legalized and prayer in schools was eliminated. Not this time.


French pool bars Muslim woman for 'burquini' suit (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb.15, 2007 file photo, Sama Wareh walks along the sand dressed in swimwear designed for Muslim women Newport Beach, Calif. A French Muslim was denied last Aug.1, 2009 entry to a swimming pool for wearing an Islamic-style full-body swimsuit. Officials say the head-to-toe 'burquini' is unhygienic and harmful to other bathers, but the woman complains of religious discrimination. The incident adds to controversy over wearing explicitly religious symbols in public places in this secular country. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, Files)AP - A Muslim woman garbed in a head-to-toe swimsuit — dubbed a "burquini" — may have opened a new chapter in France's tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code.


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