2009年8月21日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Lutherans to allow sexually active gays as clergy (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Voting member Janet Metcalfe, of Inver Grove Heights, MInn., pauses for a moment of prayer along with more than 1,000 members of the Evangelical Lutheran Chruch of America (ELCA) on Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009 after a tornado warning was announced at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Members of the ELCA are meeting this week at the Minneapolis Convention Center to vote on the future of gay clergy and their leadership in the church. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - Leaders of the nation's largest Lutheran church voted Friday to allow sexually active gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy.

Obama marks beginning of Muslim holy month (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 01:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks about the the Afghan elections, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, outside the White House in Washington, prior to boarding Marine One and departing for the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday cast U.S. military efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as part of his drive to forge a new relationship between America and the Muslim world.

Doctors remove cast from pope's broken wrist (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:35 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves during his general audience in Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Doctors on Friday removed Pope Benedict XVI's cast five weeks after he broke his right wrist in a fall and said they were pleased with how the fracture has healed.

Spain: For sake of swine flu, don't kiss the saint (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 07:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2005 file photo, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez embraces the statue of the apostle St. James during a visit to Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain. Amid the worldwide swine flu pandemic, Spain has new advice for Roman Catholic pilgrims: Don't kiss the saint. For centuries, pilgrims have visited one of Roman Catholicism's holiest shrines, the cathedral holding the purported remains of St. James the Apostle, Spain's patron saint in Santiago de Compostela. It was customary for pilgrims to hug a statue of St. James, and even kiss it. Now, thanks to fast-spreading swine flu, the church is urging the faithful not to pucker up and has even removed the nearby holy water that worshippers use to bless themselves. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)AP - Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: Don't kiss the saint.

Korean churches fill pews as community grows (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:11 AM PDT

AP - A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation's largest Korean Catholic congregations.

US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 11:33 PM PDT

AP - Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.

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