2010年1月20日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Muslim anger over US military 'Jesus' scopes (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

A US soldier patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province in 2009. Muslim groups reacted angrily Wednesday after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)AFP - Muslim groups reacted angrily Wednesday after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.

Clinton lifts U.S. ban on Muslim scholar (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 01:23 PM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lifted a U.S. ban on a planned visit by a leading European Muslim critic of the Iraq war, in a move rights groups hailed as a victory for civil liberties.

Faith groups step in as abstinence funds dry up (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 01:12 PM PST

Dance instructor James Brothers, center, helps participants with their ballroom dancing during the Purity Ball at the Seventh-day Adventist Madison church in Nashville, Tenn. on Jan. 16, 2010. The dance features a vow to abstain from sex until marriage and offer tips on 'appropriate' touching between the sexes. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun.

College Students, Professors Give Money, Time for Haiti (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 11:31 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - Search parties. Airlifts of physicians. Fundraisers. Prayer services. Teach-ins. American colleges, students, and professors are responding to the devastating earthquake in Haiti with their money, their energy, and their time.

Egypt's mufti says Koran ringtones inappropriate (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:35 AM PST

Reuters - Using Koranic verses and the call to prayer as mobile phone ringtones is inappropriate and violates the sanctity of the word of God, Egypt's highest religious legal authority, Mufti Ali Gomaa, said on Wednesday.

Pope gunman's release jars Turkey (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:32 AM PST

FILE - In this 1978 file photo, Abdi Ipekci, Chief editor of Turkish newspaper Milliyet, is seen in his office in Istanbul, Turkey. The release from prison of the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981, has unsettled Turks who remember the gunman for killing the journalist Abdi Ipekci. The world knows Mehmet Ali Agca who was released Monday Jan.18, 2010, for his attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II nearly 29-years ago, but his 1979 killing of journalist Abdi Ipekci still resonates in Turkey where fears of high level conspiracy are still voiced about Mehmet Ali Agca who now enjoys his freedom. (AP Photo/Milliyet)AP - The release of the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981 has unsettled Turks who remember him for another crime — the killing of journalist Abdi Ipekci, whose calls for tolerance still resonate in a divided nation.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 07:41 AM PST

AP - A devout Christian is asking London's High Court to force British Airways to admit it was wrong in demanding she stop wearing a Crucifix at work.

Runaway Ohio girl to remain free of Muslim parents (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 04:47 AM PST

AP - A runaway teenage girl from Ohio who converted from Islam to Christianity has reached a court settlement that allows her to remain free of her Muslim parents.

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