2011年3月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Supreme Court: Anti-gay funeral picketers allowed (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST

FILE - In this June 6, 2009 file photo, protesters from Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church demonstrate during funeral services for Dr. George Tiller at College Hill United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kan. In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the group's protests were protected by the First Amendment. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq sued after they picketed his son's 2006 funeral service.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)AP - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a grieving father's pain over mocking protests at his Marine son's funeral must yield to First Amendment protections for free speech. All but one justice sided with a fundamentalist church that has stirred outrage with raucous demonstrations contending God is punishing the military for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Lawmakers set March 10 date for Muslim hearings (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:47 PM PST

A key US congressional panel will hold a hearing March 10 into the radicalization of US Muslims, even as some lawmakers charge the goal is to tar an entire population as possible extremists. The House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee hearing has drawn heavy fire since its chairman Republican Representative Peter King, pictured in 2010, announced general plans to hold the event.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - A key US congressional panel will hold a hearing March 10 into the radicalization of US Muslims, even as some lawmakers charge the goal is to tar an entire population as possible extremists.

Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death in new book (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity in a new book.

2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:33 PM PST

German police and US soldiers talk after a gunman fired shots at U.S. soldiers on a bus outside Frankfurt airport, Germany, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 killing two Americans and wounding two others before being taken into custody, authorities said. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Two U.S. airmen were killed and two others were wounded at Frankfurt airport Wednesday when a man opened fire on them at close range with a handgun, the first such attack on American forces in Germany in a quarter century. President Barack Obama called the shooting an "outrageous act."

New American Bible changes some words such as "holocaust" (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:32 PM PST

Reuters - A new edition of one the most popular English-language Bibles will offer substitutes for words such as "booty" and "holocaust" to better reflect modern understanding, a Catholic group said on Wednesday.

Pope book says Jews not guilty of Jesus Christ's death (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:48 PM PST

Reuters - Pope Benedict, in a new book, has personally exonerated Jews of allegations they were responsible for Jesus Christ's death, repudiating the concept of collective guilt that has haunted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries.

Anti-gay US church has right to picket funerals: court (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:45 PM PST

Megan Phelps-Roper of the controversial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church pickets across the street from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland on March 1. The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the small, controversial, anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals as part of the US Constitution's free-speech guarantee.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - A church that pickets military funerals with signs saying "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags" is protected by the US constitution's right to free speech, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:14 PM PST

AP - A panel of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has acquitted a minister who was accused of violating the denomination's constitution by legally marrying his male partner.

Supreme Court: 'hurtful speech' of Westboro Baptist Church is protected (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 10:57 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In an important reaffirmation of free speech principles, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that noxious, highly offensive protests conducted outside solemn military funerals are protected by the First Amendment when the protests take place in public and address matters of public concern.

Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church hold anti-gay signs at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010. The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a church has the legal right to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote its claim that God is angry at America for its tolerance of homosexuality. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that members of a fundamentalist church have a free-speech right to hold anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote their view that God hates America for tolerating homosexuality.

Christian Pakistani minister shot dead in Islamabad (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 11:29 PM PST

Reuters - Pakistani Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, who had called for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law, was killed in a gun attack in Islamabad Wednesday, officials said.

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