2010年12月1日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


US museum pulls video after Catholic complaints (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:52 PM PST

A top Washington museum has removed a video portrait from an exhibition after a group of Catholics said it was offended by an image of the crucifix covered with ants.(National Portrait Gallery)AFP - A top Washington museum has removed a video portrait from an exhibition after a group of Catholics said it was offended by an image of the crucifix covered with ants.


Reporter Rohde Recounts Taliban Kidnapping in New Book (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST

Time.com - Book Review: Journalist David Rohde sought to uncover the secrets of the Taliban insurgency's success, but got a harrowing inside look after he was kidnapped by his source. He tells his story in A Rope and a Prayer

Catholic AIDS workers: Pope echoing us on condoms (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

In this Monday Nov. 29, 2010 photo Elizabeth and Kobesi Mofokeng, an unemployed couple in their 40s who discovered they were sick with AIDS in 2004, are treated at Inkanyezi, a Catholic AIDS clinic  in Orange Farm, some 45 km outside Johannesburg, South Africa. The Mofokeng couple, Christian but not Catholic, got antiretroviral treatment a year before the government was handing it out, in a country where half those infected remain on a waiting list for the lifesaving drugs.  'This clinic and its caring workers have changed our lifestyle and saved our lives,' said Elizabeth Mofokeng. 'We've changed our diet, we're rigorous about taking our ARVs and, every time we have sex, we use condoms.' (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - The three large blue and white boxes of condoms appeared to be the elephant in the room at the Catholic AIDS clinic, a trailer beside the church in a dusty red-soil settlement in the world's most AIDS-riddled nation.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 11:32 AM PST

AP - Conservative Anglican leaders have rejected a proposed covenant to hold their global communion together just as the Church of England gave preliminary approval to the plan.

Pope prays for Chinese Catholics after bishop rift (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 03:36 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has called for prayers for Catholics in China following new tensions with the government over the illicit ordination of a bishop by the state-backed church.


Residents show support for Ore. mosque after fire (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:16 PM PST

Bob Scott and Anne Hardy light their candles Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010, at a vigil outside the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Ore. The center was targeted by an apparent hate crime after a teen who sometimes worshipped there was accused of planning mass killings in Portland. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - Steady rain Tuesday didn't stop people from attending a candlelight vigil in support of an Islamic center targeted by an apparent hate crime after a teen who occasionally worshipped there was accused of planning mass killings in Portland.


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