Yahoo! News: Religion News

---

• Southwest apologizes to Muslim booted off plane (Reuters)
• Muslim removed from flight wants crew disciplined (AP)
• Minn. legislator wants Jesus out of Senate prayers (AP)
• Pope marks Italy's 150th with conciliatory message (AP)
• Religion news in brief (AP)
• Mormon church moving missionaries in Sendai, Tokyo (AP)

Southwest apologizes to Muslim booted off plane (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:13 PM PDT Reuters - A Muslim woman who was booted from a Southwest Airlines plane because flight attendants found her behavior suspicious received a public apology from the airline on Wednesday.

Muslim removed from flight wants crew disciplined (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:18 PM PDT AP - A Muslim woman said Wednesday that she wants a Southwest Airlines crew disciplined for removing her from a flight for wearing a headscarf.

Minn. legislator wants Jesus out of Senate prayers (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:53 AM PDT AP - A Jewish Minnesota lawmaker is asking Senate leaders to allow only nondenominational prayers to open sessions, after feeling "highly uncomfortable" when a Baptist pastor repeatedly mentioned Jesus Christ and Christianity in one of the invocations.

Pope marks Italy's 150th with conciliatory message (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:48 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday marked Italy's 150th birthday by praising the role Christianity played in forging its national identity — even though Italy's unification spelled the end of the papal states.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PDT AP - Mormon church relocating missionaries in Japan

Mormon church moving missionaries in Sendai, Tokyo (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:54 PM PDT AP - Mormon church officials say as many as 200 missionaries working in the Sendai and Tokyo regions of Japan are being moved farther away from a nuclear power plant where elevated radiation levels have been detected.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: Religion News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610