2010年9月10日星期五

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Muslims throng mosques to celebrate end of Ramadan (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:25 PM PDT

People pray at King Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca during the Eid prayer, which ends the fasting month of Ramadan, Friday Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar).AP - Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks Friday in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting month of Ramadan.


Obama says Koran burning can badly damage U.S. abroad (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Retired U.S. Marine Charlie Paleveda stands with his American flag outside the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteReuters - President Barack Obama on Friday appealed to Americans to respect the "inalienable" right of religious freedom and expressed hope a Florida Christian preacher would abandon a plan to burn the Koran that could deeply hurt the United States abroad.


Florida church says Koran burning off, as Obama urges calm (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:03 PM PDT

Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones(R), seen here addressing the press with Imam Muhammad Musri from the Islamic Society of Central Florida on September 9, insisted Friday he would not carry out a plan to burn the Koran, but failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - A tiny Florida church Friday sought to quell a storm of protest saying its threatened Koran burning was cancelled, as President Barack Obama pleaded for religious tolerance.


Florida church may not burn Qurans, but Kansas church says it will (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:50 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., may have “suspended” plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11. But the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., says it will burn the Quran. In fact, it already has.

Atheist billboard provokes Oklahoman Christians (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:22 PM PDT

In this Sept. 9, 2010 photo, a billboard erected by atheists in Oklahoma City reads ' Don't believe in God? Join the club'. Nick Singer, the coordinator of a local atheists' group called 'Coalition of Reason,' recently received $5,250 from its national counterpart to erect the billboard along Interstate 44 near the Oklahoma State Fair.  Oklahoma ranks eighth in the nation for percentage of residents who self-identify as Christians (85 percent), according to an analysis of the 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Atheists in Oklahoma City have erected a billboard seeking fellow non-believers, and Satanists have scheduled a conference in a city-owned building, drawing criticism from ministers in a state where more than eight out of 10 people say they are Christians.


Away from Ground Zero, US Muslims celebrate Eid as usual (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT

Muslims participate in the Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Eid al-Fitr marks the day when Muslims worldwide celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.(AFP/Robyn Beck)AFP - Muslims in Los Angeles celebrated the end of Ramadan as usual even as the feast in New York was clouded by the anniversary of 9/11 and contested plans for a mosque near Ground Zero.


Mosque furor, Quran burning: Anti-Islamic fervor mobilizes US Muslims (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:49 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - With the emotional uproar over plans to build an Islamic community center near ground zero raging, a canceled Quran burning in Florida, and protests against mosques across the country, American Muslims are stepping up public-relations efforts to counter what many observers see as a growing anti-Islam fervor.

Pa. mosque opens peacefully near synagogue, church (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Mohammed Howlader performs performs the call to the midday prayers at the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge mosque in Berwyn, Pa., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Amid a tense national climate for U.S. Muslims, leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge only seek continued harmony with their neighbors: a Jewish synagogue next door and Baptist Church across the street. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A new mosque recently opened in this well-to-do suburb of Philadelphia, but not many people noticed.


Australia's Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 11:46 PM PDT

Reuters - Football club songs and pop or rock music have been banned from funerals in Catholic churches in Australia under new guidelines distributed this week to priests and funeral directors.

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