2009年8月19日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 07:32 AM PDT

AP - Singapore's prime minister said in his National Day speech that "aggressive preaching" by religious groups and evangelizing threaten the tiny city-state's stability.

Is Ga. kosher law kosher? (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 07:20 AM PDT

In this Aug. 12, 2009 photo, Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation Etz Chaim is shown in Marietta, Ga.  Georgia is becoming the latest front in the debate over whether kosher laws are kosher after Lewis and other rabbis, backed by the ACLU, challenged a Georgia law requiring that kosher food meet Orthodox Hebrew religious rules. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Rabbi Mark Zimmerman is the twelfth in a line of rabbis that dates back centuries. He has led a suburban Atlanta synagogue for 21 years. He considers himself well-versed in the intricacies of Judaism's dietary laws.


Another Taiwan minister offers to quit after typhoon (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:48 AM PDT

A soldier smells the ground while looking for the bodies of flood victims in the mudslide-affected village of Sinkai, following Typhoon Morakot in Kaohsiung County, southern Taiwan August 17, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Taiwan Defense Minister Chen Chao-min has offered to quit over criticism that the government was too slow in its response to Typhoon Morakot which may have killed as many as 500 people, local television said on Wednesday.


US Catholic bishops in Cuba seeking improved ties (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:39 PM PDT

Boston archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley (R) listens to US priest Andrew Small in Havana. Cardinal O'Malley is leading a delegation of US bishops visiting Cuba to meet with Cuba's Catholic Church authorities and to be informed about the situation after the last hurricanes that lashed the island.(AFP)AFP - A delegation of senior US Roman Catholic clergy called for closer ties between Washington and Havana following moves by President Barack Obama to improve ties with the communist island.


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