2010年8月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Obama defends Ground Zero mosque-building plans (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:52 PM PDT

File photo shows US President Barack Obama taking part in a student round table discussion in Istanbul. Obama has defended controversial plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, saying US commitment to religious freedom AFP - President Barack Obama has defended controversial plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, saying US commitment to religious freedom "must be unshakable."

Prop 8 Debate Closely Watched in Utah and the LDS Church (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Dominic Colwan of Stockton, Calif., lends his support to gay marriage Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, outside City Hall in San Francisco. A federal judge put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California, disappointing dozens of gay couples who lined up outside City Hall hoping to tie the knot Thursday. Judge Vaughn Walker gave opponents of same-sex weddings until Aug. 18 at 5 p.m. to get a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on whether gay marriage should resume. Gay marriages could happen at that point or be put off indefinitely depending on how the court rules. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Time.com - Hundreds of miles away, Utah watched with great interest as California legalized then overturned then reinstated same-sex marriage. But not all Utahans support Prop 8 -- especially the gay ones

Obama to back religious freedom at Islam dinner (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:16 PM PDT

Construction cranes tower above One World Trade Center, Friday, August 13, 2010 in New York. President Barack Obama on Friday will speak up for religious freedom at a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, emphasizing that point just as New York City is immersed in a deeply sensitive debate about whether a mosque should be built near ground zero. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday will speak up for religious freedom at a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, emphasizing that point just as New York City is immersed in a deeply sensitive debate about whether a mosque should be built near ground zero.

Muslim Lebanese channels halt Jesus TV series (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 08:42 AM PDT

Reuters - Two Muslim Lebanese channels, including Hezbollah's al-Manar television, said on Friday they had stopped airing a series depicting the life of Jesus after complaints from Christians.

Peres' Romania comment criticized by Jewish center (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 07:14 AM PDT

Israel's President Shimon Peres attends a memorial service for the 6 Israeli military personnel killed last month in an air crash in Romania at the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. At the end of July a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter slammed into a mountain in central Romania killing six Israelis and one Romanian during a military exercise. Peres is the first Israeli President to visit Romania since the the creation of the state of Israel.(AP Photo)AP - The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday for thanking Romania for saving Jews, saying he should have condemned the Romanian state for the tens of thousands of Jews who were killed there during World War II.

US Muslims prep for Islamic holiday — around 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 06:37 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 picture, Muslim men pray at the Darul Uloom Institute in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on the first day of Ramadan. Muslims across the world refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a year when American Muslims are already confronting a spike in assaults on their faith and protests against new mosques. Eid al-Fitr, a joyous holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, this year falls around Sept. 11, 2010. Muslim leaders fear that their gatherings for prayer and festivities could be misinterpreted by those unfamiliar with Islam as a celebration of the 2001 terrorist strikes. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a year when American Muslims are already confronting a spike in assaults on their faith and protests against new mosques.

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