2010年6月2日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Ted Haggard to start new church in Colo. Springs (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:24 PM PDT

Ted Haggard, left, the former megachurch pastor who fell from grace amid a sex scandal, leads his wife Gayle, right, and their children from their house for a news conference in their yard in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, June 2, 2010, where Haggard announced his intentions to start a new church. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said Wednesday that he will launch a new church from his Colorado Springs home, 3 1/2 years after he resigned from his ministry amid an embarrassing and devastating sex scandal.


Sisterhood ends where it began for 2 merging nuns (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:44 PM PDT

In a photo made May 26, 2010, Sister Helenette Baltes is shown at St. Scholastica, an assisted living center for Benedictine nuns in St. Cloud, Minn. Sister Helenette, 94, was recently reunited with her friend, Sister Mary David Olheiser, 92. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)AP - Sister Mary David Olheiser and Sister Helenette Baltes professed their vows together in 1936 as two of the 21 new sisters to join the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict that year. At the time, their central Minnesota Roman Catholic monastery was overflowing with youth and energy.


'Wives' of Catholic priests speak out against celibacy (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 09:08 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St.Peter's square at the Vatican. The Pope is still struggling to repair the damage wrought by a wave of paedophile scandals and now he faces a fresh challenge, from women loved -- and often abandoned -- by Catholic priests.I(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI, still struggling to repair the damage wrought by a wave of paedophile scandals, now faces a fresh challenge, from women loved -- and often abandoned -- by Catholic priests.


Grim image of division awaits Pope in Cyprus (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:49 AM PDT

United Nations personnel walk in front of the Franciscan monastery, where Pope Benedict XVI will be staying during his visit to Cyprus, in Nicosia June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Andreas ManolisReuters - Behind the pomp and circumstance of a papal visit, sandbags, abandoned gun positions and a crumbling time warp make up the grim image which will welcome Pope Benedict to Cyprus on Friday, when he visits one of the world's last divided capital cities.


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