2009年11月27日星期五

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Christian church, Native American tribe reconcile (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 02:46 PM PST

The Rev. Robert Chase delivers a statement by the Collegiate Church during a healing ceremony entitled the Healing of Turtle Island,Friday, Nov. 27, 2009  in New York.   Collegiate Church, one of the oldest surviving institutions of the early Dutch settlement of New York is publicly acknowledging publicly its role in helping to relegate Native Americans to the margins of society.  Chase told the Lenape: 'We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture.' (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday — for the first time — for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago.


German minister quits over Afghan strike fallout (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 09:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file picture Franz Josef Jung, German Minister for Labour is pictured during the swearing-in ceremony in the German parliament in Berlin. Germany's labor minister says he is resigning from the Cabinet amid the fallout from an airstrike in northern Afghanistan that already cost the head of the armed forces his job. Franz Josef Jung was defense minister at the time of the Sept. 4 airstrike, which is believed to have killed civilians, but acknowledged this week that he had not seen a German military report and videos on the attack. Jung said Friday he was resigning to take 'political responsibility.'   (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer,File)AP - Germany's labor minister resigned Friday after conceding that he didn't see a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan while he held the government's defense portfolio.


Pope: Immigrant kids must be integrated (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 03:17 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI, greets the faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.


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