2010年9月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Philly warns church over bell-ringing at 7 a.m. (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A Philadelphia church could face fines because the city says its 7 a.m. bell-ringing may violate a noise ordinance.

Florida pastor cancels Koran-burning plan (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Reuters - A Christian pastor on Thursday canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran at his obscure Florida church, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.

Pastor nixes Quran-burning, claims NYC mosque deal (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:43 PM PDT

Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center speaks to the media as Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida looks on at left, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP - The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church backed off his threat to burn the Quran, defusing an international firestorm Thursday after he said he was promised that a planned Islamic center and mosque would be moved away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center, however, quickly denied such a deal.


Obama sends greeting on Muslim holiday (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 10:23 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is sending best wishes to Muslims worldwide as they celebrate Eid-al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy month of fasting and prayer known as Ramadan (RAH'-mah-dahn).

GOP official Haley Barbour: Obama not a Muslim, but he is mysterious (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 08:06 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Republican Governors Association Chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday that he accepted “just totally at face value” President Obama’s affirmations that he is a Christian, but added that Americans know less about the chief executive than “any other president in history.”

50,000 Hasidic mark Jewish New Year in Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:29 AM PDT

Hasidic Jewish boys walk around a lake in the town of Uman, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Ukraine's capital Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Thousands of followers of Rabbi Nachman from around the world flocked to  Uman to worship their spiritual leader and celebrate the start of the New Year at his grave. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world gathered in a small Ukrainian city Thursday to mark the Jewish New Year at the tomb of their spiritual leader — an apparent record for the annual all-male pilgrimage banned for decades by the Soviets.


New Muslim college welcomes freshmen in California (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:44 AM PDT

Imam Zaid Shakir, rear, lectures during Islamic History Class at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.  Amid the uproar over the proposed mosque near the former World Trade Center, a new Islamic college opened its doors in California with plans to educate a new generation of Muslim American leaders. Zaytuna College in Berkeley is a small school with just five faculty members and 15 students in its inaugural freshman class, but it has big ambitions: It wants to be the first accredited Muslim academic institution in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Amid the uproar over the proposed mosque near ground zero in New York, a new Islamic college recently opened its doors in California with plans to educate a new generation of Muslim-American leaders.


Pastor calls off Koran burning, claims deal over NY mosque (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones (R) speaks at a press conference with Imam Muhammad Musri, from the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Gainesville, Florida. A Florida pastor Thursday abandoned plans to burn hundreds of Korans, saying Muslim leaders had vowed to relocate a mosque due to be opened close to the Ground Zero site in New York.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - A radical Florida pastor abandoned on Thursday plans to burn hundreds of Korans in an act world leaders feared could spark a fierce Muslim backlash around the globe.


New York mosque imam regrets 'pain' over project (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 06:16 AM PDT

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf addresses guests at a Ramadan iftar meal in Bahrain on August 22, 2010. Abdul Rauf, the cleric behind a proposed Islamic center in New York, said he would not have planned it so close to the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks had he foreseen the level of AFP - The cleric behind a proposed Islamic center in New York said he would not have planned it so close to the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks had he foreseen the level of "pain" triggered by the controversial project.


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