2011年3月31日星期四

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Fight over control of polygamous church begins (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:07 PM PDT

AP - A rival church elder is fighting to keep jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs in charge of his Utah-based church after another member seized the presidency this week.

Farrakhan: Libya has lent Nation of Islam millions (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT

AP - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan reiterated his defense of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, calling the embattled Libyan leader a friend and Muslim brother who's lent the movement $8 million over the years.

NY boy, 12, charged with hate crime on Muslim (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A 12-year-old boy accused of trying to rip the head scarf off a Muslim classmate during recess has been charged in New York City with a hate crime.

400-year-old King James Bible found in English church (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:18 PM PDT

Reuters - A printing error helped a 12th century English village church realize it owned a rare 400-year-old King James Bible, the book that changed the world.

Defendant testifies in NJ church shooting trial (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:12 PM PDT

AP - A California man charged with killing his estranged wife and another parishioner inside a New Jersey church took the stand Thursday to describe the killings and a marriage full of turbulence that he blamed on meddling from her family and members of their insular, ancient Christian sect.

Religion news in brief (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:39 PM PDT

AP - Ex-Sarkozy aide lashes out at debate on Islam

Ex-foreign minister could be key to Gadhafi ouster (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:25 PM PDT

File - Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa speaks to the media at a hotel in Tripoli, Libya in this Monday, March 7, 2011 file photo.  Libya's foreign minister has left Tunisia for London after a two-day visit shrouded in secrecy, Tunisia's official news agency said Wednesday, March 30 2011. Moussa Koussa traveled on an early afternoon flight on an unidentified Swiss carrier from the Tunisian resort of Djerba toward the British capital, the TAP news agency reported. (AP Photo / Ben Curtis, file)AP - Moussa Koussa is the ultimate Libyan insider, a one-time intelligence chief and the keeper of Moammar Gadhafi's darkest secrets.


White House: Libyan's exit a 'major defection' (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:39 AM PDT

AP - The White House calls the resignation and departure of a top Libyan official a significant blow to the regime of Moammar Gadhafi and says it signals that his inner circle is "crumbling."

New York boy, 12, arrested for attack on Muslim female classmate (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Reuters - A 12-year-old schoolboy was arrested for a possible hate crime after he attacked a Muslim student and attempted to tear off her religious headscarf at school in New York, authorities said on Thursday.

Mixed picture for church donations in 2010 (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Donations increased at 43 percent of U.S. churches last year, the third annual "State of the Plate" survey found on Wednesday.
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