2011年3月6日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Muslim US lawmaker to testify at hearings on radicals (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PST

A Muslim US lawmaker said Sunday he would testify at controversial congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, but stressed he felt they were too focused on one minority. Representative Keith Ellison, pictured in 2006, said he would participate in the hearings, which have been derided as discriminatory, because he believed in AFP - A Muslim US lawmaker said Sunday he would testify at controversial hearings on American Muslim radicalization, as religious leaders blasted the congressional inquiry as Islamophobia.


Muslims, supporters protest Congressional hearing (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:45 PM PST

Reuters - Muslims, activists and supporters demonstrated in Times Square on Sunday to protest a Congressional hearing on radicalization of U.S. Muslims.

Immigrant students revive Mass. Pentecostal church (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:39 PM PST

AP - When Ange-Therese Akono arrived in the U.S. two years ago, the Cameroon-born student felt overwhelmed. She knew few people and was entering an intense civil engineering master's program at MIT. A fellow student suggested she visit Pentecostal Tabernacle, a nearby Cambridge church said to be welcoming to students like her.

Religious leaders rally for American Muslims (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PST

New York religious leaders and legendary hip hop figure Russell Simmons, pictured in 2010, led a rally Sunday to defend American Muslims from what they described as Islamophobia in upcoming congressional hearings.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alberto E. Rodriguez)AFP - New York religious leaders and a legendary hip hop figure lead a rally Sunday to defend American Muslims from what they described as Islamophobia in upcoming congressional hearings.


Special US prison units fill with Muslims (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 02:53 PM PST

US federal prisons for the past three years have housed special units filled disproportionately with Muslim inmates whose every communication with the outside world is strictly monitored.(AFP/POOL/File/Brennan Linsley)AFP - US federal prisons for the past three years have housed special units filled disproportionately with Muslim inmates whose every communication with the outside world is strictly monitored.


Pope laments Libya's "many deaths," urges aid (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:42 AM PST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday lamented the deaths and humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in Libya between forces loyal to longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi and those demanding his ouster.

Jewish groups oppose circumcision ban in US city (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2011 06:04 PM PST

A view of San Francisco in California. The city is debating whether to introduce a ban on male circumcision, sparking an outcry from some religious groups.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Jewish groups and others are up at arms over an attempt to outlaw male circumcision in San Francisco by putting the issue to a popular vote.


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