2009年11月10日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:14 PM PST

FILE - In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI admires the sky above Sydney, Australia. The Vatican has hosted a dayslong conference to study the possibility of alien life in the universe and its implication for the Catholic Church.  (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)AP - E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.


Federal judge nixes SC license tag with cross (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:59 PM PST

FILE - In this file image supplied April 17, 2008 by Craig Dobson from Faith in Teaching, a specialty license plate is shown. A federal judge said Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 South Carolina can't issue license tags that show the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase 'I Believe.' (AP Photo/James Moore, Faith in Teaching)AP - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe."


Did Army Give Hasan a Pass Over Muslim Religion? (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:50 PM PST

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009.  U.S. intelligence agencies learned the Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and relayed that information to authorities before he allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S. officials said on Monday.    REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW HEADSHOT CONFLICT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSTime.com - Some raise the specter of political correctness in the treatment of Muslim officer Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of the Fort Hood shootings


Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 12:47 PM PST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI sings and prays along to a mix of modern music and ancient church chants in a new album presented Tuesday before its release at the end of the month.

AP: Pa. music church settles suit, bans concerts (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 08:56 AM PST

AP - The leader of a western Pennsylvania church is settling a federal lawsuit by pulling the plug on jam band concerts he says were religious services.

Catholic Church Fights Gay Marriage, Activists Regroup (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 08:45 AM PST

A Catholic worshipper holds a rosary in Prague. The Vatican has eased the way for Anglicans unhappy with the Church of England's ordination of female and homosexual clergy to convert to Catholicism.(AFP/File/Samuel Kubani)Time.com - As Catholic bishops prepare for a conference to discuss how to fight gay marriage, on-the-ground gay activists are thinking of ways to beef up the struggle


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