Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Ireland to close embassies to Vatican, 2 others (AP)
• Scientology church appeals French fraud conviction (AP)
• Muslim pilgrims defy Saudi religious police to visit cave (Reuters)
• Mass. Catholic journal withdraws gay devil column (AP)

Ireland to close embassies to Vatican, 2 others (AP) Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:36 PM PDT AP - Ireland announced Thursday it is closing its embassies to the Vatican and two other nations, but denied that its deteriorating relations with the Catholic Church played a role in its choice of cuts.

Scientology church appeals French fraud conviction (AP) Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:19 AM PDT AP - Lawyers for the Church of Scientology asked a French court on Thursday to throw out the group's fraud conviction because they say the investigation and trial in the decades-old case had taken too long.

Muslim pilgrims defy Saudi religious police to visit cave (Reuters) Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:06 AM PDT Reuters - As Muslims from all over the world congregate for the annual haj pilgrimage, some are defying the edicts of Saudi Arabia's strict Wahhabi school of Islam by climbing al-Nour mountain in the hope of attaining spiritual favor.

Mass. Catholic journal withdraws gay devil column (AP) Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:20 PM PDT AP - The oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States has retracted an opinion column suggesting the devil may be responsible for gay attraction.

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