2010年9月29日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Phelps v. Snyder: Supreme Court Case Tackles Hate Speech (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., protests in front of the Pennsylvania Statehouse Thursday, March 2, 2006, in Harrisburg, Pa. The group planned to picket a military funeral near Harrisburg later Thursday, saying that U.S. soldiers are dying overseas as a punishment from God because America tolerates homosexuals. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)Time.com - No one would deny that the Westboro Baptist Church's protests of soldiers' funerals are offensive and hateful. But that's precisely why the Supreme Court should rule they are protected speech


Bond $3M for suspect in killing near Ohio church (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:45 PM PDT

AP - Bond has been set at $3 million for an Ohio man suspected in the fatal shooting of a man as he and his wife left their church.

Music from Holocaust captures culture of camps (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

Dr. Francesco Lotoro, standing, is shown during a rehearsal for 'Testaments of the Heart' with a quartet including cellist Guang Wang, seated from left, first violinist Jessica Wu, violist Yinzi Kong and second violinist Lisa Yancich at Emory University's Schwartz Center on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010.  Lotoro has collected more than 4,000 musical compositions written in Nazi concentration camps. (AP Photo/Jenni Girtman)AP - An ongoing project seeks to preserve and perform music written by victims of the Holocaust and other World War II prisoners.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 08:01 AM PDT

AP - Members of a small Muslim community in rural upstate New York say the uproar over a planned mosque near ground zero is behind attempts by local officials to shut down the community's graveyard and remove the two bodies buried there.

NY Muslims say bigotry behind cemetery order (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 12:01 AM PDT

AP - Officials in a rural upstate New York town are trying to force a group of Muslims to dig up two bodies in their cemetery, saying the burials were illegal.

Are you smarter than an atheist? A religious quiz (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:36 PM PDT

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