2010年1月27日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Jewish cemetery desecrated in eastern France (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 12:41 PM PST

AP - A Jewish cemetery in eastern France was desecrated Wednesday, with at least 18 gravestones marked with swastikas and overturned, police and Jewish officials said.

Another loss in priest shortage: Anointing sick (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 08:18 AM PST

AP - It was John B. Baus's 82nd birthday. When he was getting ready to go out with his wife, he had a heart attack and ended up on his way to the emergency room instead.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 07:37 AM PST

AP - The Molokai settlement where Saint Damien cared for Hansen's disease patients would be managed by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands under a bill before the Legislature.

A free man: what is pope gunman's next move? (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 07:31 AM PST

Lawyers for Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot the Pope, from left, Gokay Gultekin, Melahat Uzunoglu and Yilmaz Abosoglu,  show a letter written in Turkish Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey.  Agca killed Abdi Ipekci,  Chief editor of the newspaper Milliyet, on Feb. 1, 1979, in Istanbul.  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/Ibrahim Usta)AP - This week, the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981 and just got out of jail drove to a police station. He wore sunglasses and was escorted by several heavyset men in suits. Inside, officers took his fingerprints with a scanner, and he applied for a passport.


Church offers a prayer for wedding day nerves (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:06 AM PST

A bouquet is seen in the snow as a bride poses for a photograph after a group wedding ceremony during the 26th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province January 6, 2010. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - The Church of England is offering to pray for lovestruck couples to help ease any jitters ahead of their wedding day.


Pope denounces 'horror' of Holocaust (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:28 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful upon his arrival at St. Paul outside the walls' Basilica in Rome, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, to celebrate a Vespers ceremony. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by denouncing the "horror" of the Shoah and the "unheard of brutality" of death camps created by Nazi Germany.


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