2010年2月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Spanish Senate approves new abortion law (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 11:21 AM PST

AP - Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.

Lutherans seeing fallout over gay clergy issue (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST

FILE - In a Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 file photo, Bishop Paull Spring of State College, Pa., listens to comments while at the podium at the Lutheran Coalition for Reform (CORE) conference in Fishers, Ind. Since ELCA's decision last August to liberalize its rules for gay clergy, allowing pastors in committed same-sex relationships to serve openly. But by most accounts, it's been a confusing and murky time in the nation's largest Lutheran denomination, with several hundred congregations now moving toward a permanent split with the ELCA and likely more to come. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman, File)AP - Until a few weeks ago, the Rev. Gail Sowell was pastor at two Lutheran churches in the small Wisconsin town of Edgar. That was before members of both congregations jumped headfirst into the simmering debate over gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 08:27 AM PST

AP - The Vatican's top bioethics official dismissed calls for his resignation following an uproar over his defense of doctors who aborted the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was raped by her stepfather.

Atheism book found in home linked to fire suspect (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:29 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Smith County Sheriff Department, Jason Robert Bourque, 19, of Lindale, Texas is shown. Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were arrested in a series of east Texas church fires that authorities believe were intentionally set. (AP Photo/Smith County Sheriff Department)AP - Investigators have seized books on demons and atheism as well as rifles and knives from in a home linked to one of the men charged with setting an east Texas church on fire and suspected in a string of similar blazes.

German Protestant leader quits after DUI incident (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 09:29 AM PST

AP - Germany's top Protestant cleric resigned on Wednesday after she was caught driving with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, an incident that she said had undermined her authority.

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