2010年1月26日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


After-Mass slaying rattles Ohio Catholic church (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:04 PM PST

AP - A Roman Catholic bishop asked parishioners not to abandon their church after an 80-year-old woman was killed during a robbery after a weekend Mass.

French report wants limits on Muslim face veil (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 12:04 PM PST

French lawmaker Eric Raoult, left, hands to speaker of the French National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, a 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended to dissuade women from wearing all-enveloping veils in France, in Paris Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and refuse residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of a 'radical religious practice.' (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Mass transport, hospitals, post offices — these and all public services in France would be off-limits to Muslim women wearing face-covering veils if a parliamentary panel's recommendations, released Tuesday, become law.


France should denounce, ban Muslim face veils: panel (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 11:00 AM PST

Reuters - France's National Assembly should pass a resolution denouncing full Muslim face veils and then vote the strictest law possible to ban women from wearing them, a parliamentary commission proposed on Tuesday.

In search of a lost world: Poland revives its Jewish past (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

Members of Krakow's Jewish community celebrate the creation of a new Torah, the Jewish holy book, in April 2009, before its installation at the Remuh Synagogue in the southern Polish city. Jewish life is undergoing a revival in Poland, where the vast majority of the Jewish population was killed in the Holocaust by the occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.(AFP/File/Janek Skarzynski)AFP - Almost seven decades since Nazi Germany decimated Poland's Jews in death camps like the notorious Auschwitz, Europe's former Jewish heartland is reconnecting with a lost part of its identity.


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