2010年8月17日星期二

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Antigay church can protest military funerals, judge rules (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a Missouri law aimed at preventing members of a Kansas-based religious group from conducting inflammatory protests outside the funerals of fallen US service members.

NY Governor Paterson to discuss relocating Muslim center (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:23 PM PDT

Reuters - New York Governor David Paterson plans to discuss relocating a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque to a less emotionally charged location farther from New York City's "Ground Zero" site of the September 11 attacks.

Rostenkowski remembered as generous, if flawed (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDT

Pall bearers carry the casket of former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski out of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Chicago. Hundreds of mourners, including some former congressional colleagues and the city's mayor, packed a Chicago church Tuesday to pay final tribute to Rostenkowski.  Rostenkowski died last week of lung cancer at age 82. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Inside the Chicago church where he was baptized and confirmed, former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was remembered Tuesday as a guy from the neighborhood who just happened to be one of the most powerful men in the nation.


Afghan archaeologists find Buddhist site as war rages (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:53 AM PDT

Reuters - Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said on Tuesday.

Australia's 'Ramadan lounge' Muslim tourist plans (AFP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 10:48 PM PDT

A woman prepares food for breaking the Muslim fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Australia is launching a new AFP - After a series of tourism campaigns focusing on bikinis and beaches, Australia is taking a new tack with a "Ramadan lounge" concept designed to appeal to travelling Muslims.


Mourners remember Stevens at Mass (AP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:04 PM PDT

Mourners enter into Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday, Aug. 16.2010, for a memorial mass for former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, who was killed Aug. 9, 2010, in a plane crash. Several hundred people attended the memorial mass for Stevens, who was among five people killed in the crash north of Dillingham. Four others, including ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe, survived. Former Archbishop of Anchorage Francis Hurley noted in his homily Monday that the 86-year-old Stevens was a man of hope and 'a man of getting things done.' (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - Mourners filled an Anchorage Catholic church to remember former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens Monday, launching a three-day tribute to the Alaska Republican a week after he died in a plane crash.


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