2010年4月11日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Churchgoers honor 29 dead miners — and profession (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 03:21 PM PDT

Pastor Gary Williams, center in the shirt and tie, prays with members of his congregation at the New Life Assembly church in Pettus, W.Va., Sunday, April 11, 2010 during a Sunday worship service held to mourn and commemorate the 29 miners who were killed in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - A pair of tall black boots and a lunch pail sat near the altar Sunday at the New Life Assembly church — a memorial to the 29 men killed in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970 and a thank-you to those who make their living inside the mountains.


In coalfields, days of prayer end in sorrow (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Julie Jones, left, and Cassie Jones, comfort each other  during a vigil in Mullens, W.Va., Saturday, April 10, 2010, to commemorate the 29 miners who were killed in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine. They are family members of coal miner Dean Jones who was killed in the explosion. Dean Jones grew up in Mullens, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Gary Jarrell was shooting the breeze with customers at his general store when an ambulance went hurtling north down Coal River Road.


Pope's ivory tower past adds to his detachment (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than forty books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and briliant mind. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and brilliant mind.


Pope offers condolences to Poland, dodges scandal (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 05:48 AM PDT

A faithful holds a Polish flags adorned with a black ribbon as Pope Benedict XVI is projected on a giant screen in St. Peter's square at the Vatican while delivering his blessing from the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, Sunday, April 11, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI offered condolences to Poland on Sunday following a plane crash that killed the country's president and other senior officials, saying he was praying for the victims and the 'beloved' Polish nation. Poles holding up the red-and-white banners of the Polish flag sang mournfully after the pope spoke during his noon blessing from the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo. Benedict said he had learned with sadness of the crash and the deaths. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI offered condolences to Poland on Sunday following a plane crash that killed the country's president and other senior officials, saying he was praying for the victims and the "beloved" Polish nation.


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