2011年2月16日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


UK to let gays have church civil ceremonies (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:02 PM PST

AP - Gay couples are to be allowed civil partnership ceremonies in churches, Britain's government said Thursday — erasing some of the last remaining distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages.

US spy chiefs grilled over Muslim Brotherhood (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Top US intelligence officials said Wednesday that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood includes AFP - Top US intelligence officials faced tough questions from lawmakers Wednesday over Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, acknowledging the spy agencies lack certainty on the opposition group's views.


Group fights homelessness in Disney's backyard (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:42 PM PST

AP - Diana Gonzalez lives in an encampment of grimy tents and overstuffed shopping carts in an alley less than three miles from Disneyland. Her life is a world apart from the fairy tales of the Happiest Place on Earth.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 01:24 PM PST

AP - The Greek Orthodox church in the U.S. has sued the public agency that owned the World Trade Center, saying the agency reneged on a deal to rebuild a church that was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

US suspects Hezbollah presence in Chile: cables (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a televised address to a rally marking the Shiite party's martyrs' day in southern Beirut. Leaked US embassy cables made public here report US suspicions that Hezbollah raised funds and maintained contacts among the Chile's small community of Islamic fundamentalists.(AFP)AFP - Leaked US embassy cables made public here report US suspicions that Hezbollah raised funds and maintained contacts among the Chile's small community of Islamic fundamentalists.


German minister rejects plagiarism allegations (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 10:12 AM PST

German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Germany's popular defense minister is rejecting accusations that he plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Wednesday dismissed as 'absurd' the allegations reported by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The minister said he is willing to check whether there were any omissions or errors in some 1,200 footnotes in his thesis â€AP - Germany's popular defense minister faced accusations Wednesday that he plagiarized part of his doctoral thesis — a claim he strongly rejected.


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