2010年2月1日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Autopsy: Detroit imam shot 20 times at FBI raid (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:05 PM PST

Jamil Carswell, son of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah talks to the media outside the Dearborn, Mich., police station, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Carswell was commenting on the death of his father who was shot 21 times during an FBI raid at a Dearborn warehouse on Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A Muslim prayer leader accused of encouraging his followers to commit violence against the U.S. government was shot 20 times during an FBI raid at a suburban warehouse last fall, according to an autopsy report released Monday.


Earth religions get worship area at AF Academy (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:53 PM PST

In this photo taken in August 2003, cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado are seen walking past the Chapel at the academy. The Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers school officials announced on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.   (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - The Air Force Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.


South African church sheltering migrants face uncertain future (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:13 PM PST

Zimbabwean refugees mill around in the Methodist church in the center of Johannesburg on January 13, where they took up residence after fleeing their troubled country. After five years with up to 2,000 people a night sleeping on pews, floors and stairwells, the church is now overcrowded, filthy and reeking due to inadequate sanitation.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - For thousands of Zimbabweans who flee their troubled country, the Methodist church in downtown Johannesburg is the only home they know.


Pope to visit UK; urges church to accept Anglicans (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 11:57 AM PST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI confirmed Monday he would visit Britain later this year, a trip that has grown fraught following his move to welcome into the Roman Catholic Church groups of Anglicans upset over the ordination of gays and women.

$3M bond set in Ohio church parking lot slaying (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 09:21 AM PST

AP - An Ohio judge has set bond at $3 million for a teenager accused of fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman in the head during a robbery as she left church.

LA megachurch hopes to win Super Bowl ad contest (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:24 AM PST

This Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 photo shows Mosaic pastor, Erwin McManus posing outside The Mayan night club, in Los Angeles. Mosaic, a 3,000-member megachurch, is one of six finalists in the Doritos' 'Crash the Super Bowl' challenge with a lighthearted spoof that plays off the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Pastors have long competed with the NFL on Sundays, but this season a hipster megachurch is turning the tables with a 30-second ad that could muscle its way into that all holiest of sporting events: the Super Bowl.


New NIreland pact elusive, dashing premiers' hopes (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 11:46 AM PST

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson speaks to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont,Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.  Northern Ireland's struggle to save its Catholic-Protestant administration hit another hurdle Monday as the major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists, unexpectedly held back from accepting a compromise deal on the table.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Northern Ireland's major Protestant party unexpectedly withheld support Monday for a painstakingly negotiated deal with its Catholic partners to save their 2 1/2-year-old administration.


Idaho church prays for Americans held in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:29 AM PST

Clint Henry, head pastor at Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho pauses for a moment while taking questions from the media on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Five members of the Central Valley Baptist church are currently being detained in Haiti along with five other Americans following an attempt to transport 33 children out of Haiti and into the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Charlie Litchfield)AP - A tearful Idaho congregation heard their pastor warn that church members detained in Haiti after attempting to take 33 children into the Dominican Republic could face child trafficking charges. Then the pastor urged them to pray.


Muslim washing rite goes hi-tech with "wudu" machine (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 06:24 PM PST

A man demonstrates how to use the Reuters - A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water.


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