Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Judge dismisses Air Force Academy prayer lawsuit (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• God, science not wholly exclusive, astronomer says (AP)
• Catholics cannot confess via iPhone: Vatican (Reuters)
• German auction house blasted over Jewish-owned art sale (AFP)
• Smartphone Sins: Catholic Church Approves Confession by iPhone (Time.com)

Judge dismisses Air Force Academy prayer lawsuit (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 04:33 PM PST AP - A judge ruled Wednesday an Air Force Academy prayer luncheon can go on as planned, but a chaplain said he would make clear the event is sponsored by his chapel and not the academy — one of the objectives of a lawsuit that sought to block it.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 03:46 PM PST AP - Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming Islam.

God, science not wholly exclusive, astronomer says (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 02:39 PM PST AP - A Christian astronomer who sued the University of Kentucky for religious discrimination says the perceived divide between faith and science is an "illusion."

Catholics cannot confess via iPhone: Vatican (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 01:26 PM PST Reuters - Catholics cannot confess via iPhone and technology is not a substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest, the Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday.

German auction house blasted over Jewish-owned art sale (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 11:07 AM PST AFP - Three university beneficiaries of Jewish art dealer Max Stern's estate on Wednesday blasted a German auction house for planning to sell a painting they say was looted during the Nazi era.

Smartphone Sins: Catholic Church Approves Confession by iPhone (Time.com) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST Time.com - First came the iPod, then the iPhone. Now there's iPrayer

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