2009年12月27日星期日

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


RI field fight part of bigger church-state dispute (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:12 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo members of the St.  Raphael Academy high school football team depart the Dennis M. O'Brien Memorial Field in Pawtucket, R.I. following a team practice. A fight over athletic fields in this city goes well beyond who gets to play soccer where, and is raising thorny questions about separation of church and state and public aid to religious institutions — divisive issues that have flared repeatedly in heavily Catholic Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A fight over athletic fields in this city goes beyond who gets to play soccer where and raises thorny questions about separation of church and state and public aid to religious institutions — divisive issues that have flared repeatedly in heavily Catholic Rhode Island.


Pope presses the flesh, visits Rome soup kitchen (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:29 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI delivers the Sunday Angelus address from the window of his studio at the Vatican,  overlooking St. Peter's Square, marking Holy Family Day and issuing greetings in several languages,  Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - Pope Benedict XVI waded into a crowd of well-wishers in Rome on Sunday, just days after he was knocked down by a woman at a Christmas Eve Mass.


Pakistan's embattled Zardari vows to defend democracy (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 08:02 AM PST

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, addresses a joint sitting of parliament (lower and upper house) in Islamabad March 28, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shi'ite Muslim hall in the Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 5 people, police said.


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