2009年10月26日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


US hits out at bid to bar religious defamation (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks about the 2009 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Obama administration on Monday came out strongly against efforts by Islamic nations to bar the defamation of religions, saying the moves would restrict free speech.


U.S. sees "mixed picture" on world religious liberty (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:36 PM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (L) visits the newly-built Mount Myohyang pleasure ground in Mt Myohyang, about 160 km (99 miles) northeast of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, in this undated picture released on October 26, 2009 by North Korea's official news agency Korean Central News Agency. KCNA did not state expressly the REUTERS/KCNAReuters - The United States sees a mixed picture on world religious freedom, with progress in interfaith dialogue weighed against government repression and sectarian strife in many countries.


Vatican: Talks with traditionalists will continue (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:29 PM PDT

Members of a delegation from the Society of St. Pius X, background right, framed by a Vatican Swiss guard, walk inside the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The Vatican began talks Monday to bring a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics back under its wing, nine months after the pope created an uproar by rehabilitating one of their bishops despite his denial of the Holocaust. A delegation from the Society of St. Pius X traveled to the Vatican for a first round of meetings aimed at overcoming the deep theological differences that prompted the group to split from Rome following the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step Monday with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier.


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