2009年12月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Rare exhibition brings together Spanish sacred art (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 10:19 AM PST

Laura Chatain of Indianapolis looks at the oil on canvas painting by Francisco Ribaha on display in the exhibit 'Sacred Spain' at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - El Greco's vision of the veil of Veronica hangs near a golden crown with 447 emeralds. Just a few steps away, a recumbent sculpture of the crucified Jesus Christ rests before its return to a Spanish hermitage in time for Holy Week.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 08:05 AM PST

AP - A court in northern China has sentenced five leaders of an unauthorized Protestant church to prison terms of up to seven years on charges including illegal assembly, rights groups reported.

Sarah Palin as a Leader for the Christian Right (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 05:51 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - How much is Sarah Palin's new book tailored to evangelical Christian readers? Her writing partner for Going Rogue, Lynn Vincent, is a longtime editor at World magazine, which practices "biblical worldview journalism." Though the book is published by an imprint of HarperCollins, it is being distributed to Christian booksellers by Zondervan, the world's leading publisher of Bibles. And Going Rogue brims with testimony about Palin's Christian faith. ...

Muslims will empty their Swiss accounts: Turkish minister (AFP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2009 01:00 AM PST

The minaret of a mosque is pictured on November 30, in Zurich. A Turkish minister said he expected Muslims to withdraw their money from Swiss banks in response to a referendum vote that banned the construction of new minarets in the country, in remarks published on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)AFP - A Turkish minister said he expected Muslims to withdraw their money from Swiss banks in response to a referendum vote that banned the construction of minarets in the country, in remarks published Wednesday.


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