2010年7月30日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Jewish group opposes ground zero mosque (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:45 PM PDT

Workers continue construction on the World Trade Center site in New York City. Two US networks are refusing to air a slick, highly confrontational ad by a group protesting plans for a mosque near Ground Zero in New York, US media reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/Eric Thayer)AP - The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process."


Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Fewer Spaniards say they are Catholic: study (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:28 AM PDT

People sunbathe as people taking part in the AFP - The proportion of Spaniards who say they are Roman Catholic has fallen to 73 percent from around 80 percent eight years ago, according to a survey released Thursday by the CIS research centre.


Rise of independent groups influencing Judaism (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:56 PM PDT

In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah,  Gershon Marx, right, of Somerville, and Lieba Savitt of Somerville, holding   her one-year-old son Eliyah, prepare for a Saturday morning Kabbalat Shabbat worship service  at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Mass. The group is an 'independent minyan,' and dozens of these unaffiliated Jewish worship communities have sprung up in the past decade, mixing elements of the mainstream denominations while answering to none of them.  A Torah scroll is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - They gather blocks from Harvard Square to greet the Sabbath with communal prayer, their eyes winced closed, hands clapping as they sing in fervent Hebrew. The group worships in the Jewish Orthodox tradition, but it's not traditional.


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