2010年12月15日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Refugees aim to preserve unique Vietnamese faith (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 01:55 PM PST

Cao Dai follower Kim Vo hits the gong during a weekly worship service at Cao Dai Temple of California in Garden Grove, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Cao Dai, a dynamic religion that emerged in Vietnam during French colonial rule, is flourishing in Vietnam amidst a renewed religious freedom there, but refugees who brought the colorful and eccentric faith with them to the U.S. now worry it is dying out in the immigrant community as second- and third-generation Vietnamese-Americans assimilate and lose their native tongue.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - As darkness fell on a recent night, Duc Le donned a long white tunic and black cap, slipped off his shoes and joined other aging refugees to honor the new moon with the chanted prayers and offerings that mark the Vietnamese religion of Cao Dai.


Muslim hotel staff allege discrimination on Israeli visit (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 12:42 PM PST

The living room of the Presidential Suite of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC. Muslim employees of the hotel alleged that they were discriminated against when Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited at the weekend, a group representing them said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Muslim employees of a Washington hotel alleged that they were discriminated against when Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited at the weekend, a group representing them said Wednesday.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:58 AM PST

AP - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is the latest diocese in the U.S. to announce that it must freeze pensions for workers.

Czech court rejects Jewish restitution claim (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:47 AM PST

AP - A Czech court has rejected a restitution claim by the Jewish descendants of a man who owned a button factory that was taken over by the Nazis and then nationalized.

Suspect named in Ind. anti-Jewish vandalism attack (AP)

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 07:59 PM PST

AP - Indiana University police say they have identified a suspect in one of a series of acts of anti-Jewish vandalism in the college town of Bloomington.
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