2011年4月7日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Blast near LA-area Jewish center was accidental (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Firefighters examine a device from the roof of a home next to the Chabad House Lubavitch in Santa Monica, Calif., on Thursday, April 7, 2011. An early morning explosion sent the object into the air, lodging it in the roof. Concern that it was a bomb due to its proximity to the Chabad House Lubavitch caused authorities to evacuate about 100 people in the surrounding area. (AP Photo/David Zentz)AP - An explosion Thursday shattered windows at a synagogue and Jewish school and sent a 300-pound pipe into the roof of a house where a child was sleeping, prompting police to evacuate several blocks before experts determined that the blast was caused by an accident, not a bomb.


German Catholics leave in droves: report (AFP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:03 AM PDT

The Cathedral of Regensburg in southern Germany. Paedophile priest scandals in Germany contributed to a 40-percent rise in the number of Catholics leaving the Church last year, a report said Thursday, five months before a visit by the pope.(AFP/DDP/File/Timm Schamberger)AFP - Paedophile priest scandals in Germany contributed to a 40-percent rise in the number of Catholics leaving the Church last year, a report said Thursday, five months before a visit by the pope.


Italy to give permits to Tunisians (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:16 PM PDT

A man is helped out of an Italian Coastguard boat upon his arrival in Lampedusa, southern Italy, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Italian coast guard officials were trying Wednesday to rescue migrants lost at sea after their boat capsized off the coast of Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island close to North Africa, officials said. Many were feared dead. The Coast Guard has saved 48 out of 200 believed to be aboard the rickety board, said Pietro Carosia of the Italian Coast Guard. But helicopters also have spotted corpses in the sea, Carosia said, declining to provide a number. The survivors were offered blankets, warm beverages and food as they arrived ashore Wednesday morning. Many suffered hypothermia and some were taken away by ambulance, said Carosia. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta, Lapresse)  ITALY OUTAP - Italy accused France of harboring a hostile attitude toward the flood of Tunisians reaching Italian shores from North Africa, as French officials vowed Thursday to further tighten border controls against the illegal migrants.


Church of England prayer for royal couple (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday March 8, 2011 file photo Britain's Prince William and his fiance Kate Middleton leave City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. British divorce lawyers have words of warning for Prince William: Not all fairy tales have happy endings. The prince is set to wed his longtime love Kate Middleton on April 29, but if history is any guide, divorce lawyers say the heir to the British throne would be well advised to sign a prenuptial agreement. Britain's royal family has been plagued by a string of failed marriages. Three of Queen Elizabeth II's four children have been divorced, and William's uncle on his mother's side, Charles Spencer, has two ex-wives. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - The Church of England has published a prayer in advance of the royal wedding asking God's help for Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton to be faithful.


Let us pray...that William and Kate stay faithful (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 05:13 AM PDT

Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton (L) pose for a photograph in St. James's Palace, central London in a November 16, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/filesReuters - The Church of England issued a special prayer on Thursday ahead of the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, asking worshippers to call on God to give them the strength to be faithful to each other.


Calif. man convicted in deadly NJ church shootings (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:02 PM PDT

AP - A California man has been convicted in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and another person inside a New Jersey church.
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