2011年10月13日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


RI atheist student confident in prayer mural suit (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Jessica Ahlquist, 16, left, arrives at U.S. District Court, in Providence, R.I., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, with her attorney Lynette Labinger, right. Ahlquist, who is an atheist, and is being represented by the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, wants Cranston High School West officials to remove a Christian prayer banner, arguing that it is offensive to non-Christians. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A 16-year-old atheist said Thursday she is confident the law is on her side in her fight over a prayer mural that she wants removed from the auditorium of her high school.


NJ teacher criticized for Facebook remarks on gays (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:53 PM PDT

AP - Officials in a New Jersey school district are investigating claims that a high school teacher who advises a prayer group posted remarks on her Facebook page that described homosexuality as "perverted" and said it "breeds like cancer."

Saudi-backed religious tolerance center opens (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 12:09 PM PDT

Foreign Ministers Prince Saud al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Michael Spindelegger of Austria and Trinidad Jimenez of Spain, from left, pose after signing the agreement for the establishment of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, KAICID, in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Saudi Arabia inaugurated an interfaith center in Vienna Thursday and its foreign minister said he hoped the spirit of tolerance embodied by the new institution will help change his conservative Muslim country, which prohibits any religion except Islam.


Egypt to review church permit disputes after violence (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 08:30 AM PDT

An Egyptian Christian woman grieves and show a picture of her son during a mass funeral for victims of sectarian clashes with soldiers and riot police at a protest against an attack on a church in southern Egypt at Abassaiya Cathedral in Cairo October 10, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Egypt said Thursday it would launch a review of disputed permits for churches in a bid to head off sectarian violence, days after 25 people were killed at a demonstration by Christians over one such dispute.


Kazakhstan curbs religious freedom to halt militancy (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a tough religion law Thursday including a ban on prayer rooms in state buildings, aimed at stamping out Islamist militancy but criticized by Kazakhstan's top Muslim cleric and the West.

South Carolina Episcopal diocese sees crisis over gay rights (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Reuters - The national Episcopal Church's acceptance of homosexuality has plunged it into "crisis," the South Carolina Episcopal diocese said on Wednesday, and the conservative diocese suggested that it could break from the national church.

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