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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Pope: End of Nazism made me happy (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:23 PM PST

In this photo released by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI, in white at left at the microphone, baptizes the infant of Paolo Corvini a Vatican state employee, at right with his wife, in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Sunday Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)AP - Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of his controversy-generating visit to a Rome synagogue, said Saturday that the end of Nazi tyranny in his German homeland made him happy and allowed him to resume studies for the priesthood.

A second NJ church group home from Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:06 PM PST

Frank Procaccini, center, embraces his wife Candace, left, while giving an interview with his daughter Jori, second right, and son Jesse, right, as he and members of a church group from Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, N.J. return from Haiti to a joyful reunion with family and friends at John F. Kennedy International Airport just after midnight Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 in New York. The group was on a humanitarian mission to Haiti when the country was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - A second New Jersey church delegation has arrived home from Haiti, where they were caught in Tuesday's devastating earthquake.

Principal slashed at Calif. Catholic high school (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:01 PM PST

AP - Authorities say a 16-year-old student has been arrested for investigation of slashing a principal with a knife at a Catholic high school near Los Angeles.

Status of face-covering veils Muslim around Europe (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:37 AM PST

AP - • FRANCE: After passing 2004 law banning Muslim headscarves and other "ostentatious" religious symbols from classrooms, France's government submitted a draft law this week on a ban on face-covering veils. The bill could be debated this spring.

Another NJ church group on way home from Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 07:46 AM PST

AP - A second New Jersey church delegation is on its way home from Haiti after being caught in the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake.

Pope defends invitation to Anglicans to convert (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 07:14 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful, during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican, Wednesday Jan 13, 2010. The pontiff appealed for a generous international aid response for the victims of Haiti's earthquake and has pledged concrete help from the Catholic Church. Benedict also urged prayers for the victims and assured all those who were suffering that he was spiritually close to them and had 'implored God for consolation and relief in their suffering.' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI defended his decision to invite disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church en masse, saying Friday it was the "ultimate aim" of ecumenism.

Controversy hits pope's Rome synagogue visit (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 06:50 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful, during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican, Wednesday Jan 13, 2010. The pontiff appealed for a generous international aid response for the victims of Haiti's earthquake and has pledged concrete help from the Catholic Church. Benedict also urged prayers for the victims and assured all those who were suffering that he was spiritually close to them and had 'implored God for consolation and relief in their suffering.' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit to Rome's main synagogue on Sunday has sharply divided Italian Jews, with some angered by his moves to push World War II Pope Pius XII toward sainthood.

France moves closer to banning full Muslim veil (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:55 AM PST

Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan , is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, 38 kilometers (24 miles) southwest of Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Silmi has taken her plight to the European Court of Human Rights. But her fate could be decided before the case is heard if France passes a law making such dress taboo, which appears increasingly likely. Full-body robes are a rare sight in the streets of France, although France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, the largest such population in western Europe. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - The man she married is French, her four children were born in France and she speaks French with only a trace of her native Arabic tongue. Faiza Silmi contends her clothes — a head-to-toe robe and filmy tissue covering her face — are the reason France has denied her citizenship in her adopted land.

Headache from religious fast? Researchers may have a cure (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:40 PM PST

Reuters - Every year millions of Jews fast on their holiest day, Yom Kippur, and millions of Muslims fast for the month of Ramadan -- and every year, as many as 40 percent of those fasting develop serious headaches. But given the prohibitions against taking anything by mouth, there's little these observers can do until the fast ends - nightly for Muslims, and after 25 hours for Jews.

Life sentence for Seattle Jewish office shooting (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:26 PM PST

AP - A man who went on a shooting rampage at a Seattle Jewish center, killing one woman and wounding five others, appealed for forgiveness and blamed his medication as a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without parole.

US evangelist's Haiti comment 'utterly stupid': White House (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:40 PM PST

The White House on Thursday dismissed a comment by evangelical preacher Pat Robertson that Haiti's earthquake was retribution for the country swearing a AFP - The White House on Thursday dismissed a comment by evangelical preacher Pat Robertson that Haiti's earthquake was retribution for the country swearing a "pact to the devil" as "utterly stupid."

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