2010年12月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Devout Hispanic Catholics get new Pa. church (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST

In this Dec. 2, 2010 photo, Sister Maria Parousia leads students during a religious studies class at Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother church in Avondale, Pa. The Latino community of this farming area supports six Spanish-language Masses at five churches each week. Last year it had the most baptisms — about 425 — of any parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia according to the Rev. Frank Depman. Catholic church closings and parish consolidations have become common in urban areas that are losing population. But semi-rural Chester County, about 35 miles southwest of Philadelphia, is one of the fastest-growing regions in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - When the Rev. Frank Depman came to this farming area in 1990 to serve Latino Roman Catholics, he borrowed space in a church to celebrate one weekly Mass in Spanish.

Germany's angst about Islamists goes mainstream (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 09:05 PM PST

AP - The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.

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