2009年10月21日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


2nd trial begins in Seattle Jewish center shooting (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 03:39 PM PDT

AP - Naveed Haq wasn't insane — just angry — when he stormed a Seattle Jewish center in 2006, killing one woman and wounding five others as he railed against Israel and demanded to go on CNN, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

NATO to meet on Afghanistan, missile defense (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 11:02 AM PDT

AP - NATO defense ministers will meet here Thursday to discuss the war in Afghanistan and the growing support for President Barack Obama's plans for a new missile defense system in Europe.

Repentant robber joins cashier in mid-heist prayer (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 09:25 AM PDT

Crime scene taple seen in the streets in New York in 2006. A repentant robber fell to his knees and prayed with the clerk of the store during a hold-up, according to US media Wednesday, which said the man nevertheless proceeded to pinch 20 dollars from the cash register.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Chernin)AFP - A repentant robber fell to his knees and prayed with the clerk of the store during a hold-up, according to US media Wednesday, which said the man nevertheless proceeded to pinch 20 dollars from the cash register.


R. Crumb zaps the Book of Genesis in latest work (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 09:11 AM PDT

AP - His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 08:34 AM PDT

AP - A polygamous sect is asking the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a state court decision that stripped the religious purposes from its communal land trust.

Vatican seeks to lure disaffected Anglicans (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 06:31 PM PDT

Cardinal William Levada, right, the Vatican's chief doctrinal official, flanked by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, speaks at a news conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. The Vatican has made it easier for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church, responding to the disillusionment of some Anglicans over the election of openly gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions. Pope Benedict XVI approved a new church provision that will allow Anglicans to convert while maintaining many of their distinctive spiritual and liturgical traditions, Cardinal William Levada, the Vatican's chief doctrinal official, told a news conference Tuesday. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)AP - The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism — a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.


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