2009年10月28日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Yellow police tape is seen outside a trucking and warehouse firm just north of Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Mich. after an FBI raid on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009.  A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said. Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Guralnick)  NO SALES. NO MAGS. DETROIT OUT. TV OUTAP - A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S. was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said.


Church plans Christ the Redeemer upgrade in Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:32 PM PDT

The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Catholic Church announced plans to raise 3.5 million dollars for a major upgrade of Christ the Redeemer, the iconic giant statue of Jesus with outstretched arms that overlooks Rio de Janeiro.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - The Catholic Church announced plans to raise 3.5 million dollars for a major upgrade of Christ the Redeemer, the iconic giant statue of Jesus with outstretched arms that overlooks Rio de Janeiro.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:46 AM PDT

AP - A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.

First woman voted head of German Protestant church (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:12 AM PDT

A divorced woman once described as AFP - A divorced woman once described as "a cross between Mother Teresa and Demi Moore" was Wednesday elected head of Germany's Protestant church, the first woman to hold the post.


Lutheran Church elects 1st female leader (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:52 AM PDT

A divorced woman once described as AP - Germany's Lutheran Church has elected a woman to lead the nation's Protestants for the first time in its history.


Evangelists target spiritually cold New England (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:05 AM PDT

The Rev. Chris Bass sings during a service at Redeemer Fellowship Church, in Watertown, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, one of the churches recently opened by Baptist missionaries in New England. Visible through the window is a former church building that has been converted to luxury condominiums.  (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - It's hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway.


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