2010年9月13日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Conn. Muslims ask for equality from city council (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 06:16 PM PDT

AP - Muslims leaders in Connecticut are demanding equal treatment after the Hartford City Council canceled an Islamic prayer that was to be held before a council meeting.

Clinton: both sides must move on Jewish settlements (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Israel and the Palestinians need to resolve a dispute over the expiry of an Israeli moratorium on West Bank settlement construction that threatens to scupper their nascent direct peace talks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.

US sues Calif. city for denying Buddhist permit (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 01:33 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Justice Department has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Southern California city of Walnut, claiming it unfairly denied a permit to a group seeking to build and run a Buddhist center.

Poland's Muslim Tatars hope for cultural revival (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 09:18 AM PDT

Reuters - In a remote rural corner of Catholic Poland, descendants of Muslim Tatars who settled here centuries ago try to revive a culture eroded by time, assimilation, emigration and communist-era oppression.

Pope breaks own rule to beatify Anglican convert (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:12 AM PDT

Katherine Milby views two vestments once owned by Cardinal Newman and a drawing of him on display Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010 at Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford home in Melrose, Scottish Borders. The Cardinal will be beatified by the Pope during his forthcoming visit to the UK. The vestments are being loaned to the Archdioceses of Edinburgh for the papal visit. They were gifted to Abbotsford House after Cardinal Newman conducted mass at the property in 1852 and 1872. The items which have never been on public display will become second-class holy relics following his beatification. (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan/PA ) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT  **AP - Pope Benedict XVI will break his own rule this weekend when he beatifies Cardinal John Henry Newman, the renowned 19th Century Anglican convert who greatly influenced the Roman Catholic Church.


India's lost Buddhist university to rise from ashes (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 10:06 PM PDT

The ruins of Nalanda University some 90 kms from Bihar state capital Patna. The ancient Indian university, destroyed by foreign invaders more than 800 years ago, is to be re-built as a symbol of the country's intention to become a world centre of higher education.(AFP/AFP)AFP - Indian academics have long dreamt of resurrecting Nalanda University, one of the world's oldest seats of learning which has lain in ruins for 800 years since being razed by foreign invaders.


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