2010年12月13日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


US sues school over denial of Muslim pilgrimage (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:53 PM PST

AP - The federal government sued a suburban Chicago school district Monday for denying a Muslim middle school teacher unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a central part of her religion.

French court annuls fine for driver in Muslim veil (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST

FILE - In this April 23, 2010 picture Lies Hebbadj, left, and his wife Sandrine Mouleres , speak to reporters in Nantes, western France. A French court on Monday Dec. 12, 2010 annulled a fine given to a woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil before France's nationwide ban on the garments goes into effect. Traffic police in the western city of Nantes had fined 31-year-old Sandrine Mouleres in April, saying she did not have a clear field of vision. The fine was just euros22, ($29) but drew widespread attention amid nationwide debate over the place of Islamic veils in today's France.  (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)AP - A French court on Monday annulled a fine given to a woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil, months before a ban on wearing the garments goes into effect.


Iranian president sacks foreign minister (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 11:33 AM PST

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) speaks to Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki before starting an official meeting in Tehran in this May 19, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/FilesReuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed his long-serving foreign minister on Monday and named one of his own close allies, Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, as his interim replacement.


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