2011年4月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Tornado survivors had minutes to seek refuge (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT

David Newton, right, and his wife Sharon pose for photos Thursday, April 28, 2011 amid the ruins of their home in Concord, Ala. As Wednesday's tornado was on top of them, David Newton clutched the bathroom's heater vent, his wife clutching his arm. Both held on for their lives. 'If I didn't hold on, I would have gone away with the storm,' he said. (AP Photo/Wynter Byrd)AP - A Georgia salon owner and her two daughters — Sky and Stormy — climbed inside a tanning bed while a tornado ripped the roof off their business. A Virginia couple scrambled under their garage's wooden steps after a twister ripped off their home's roof. Mississippi mobile home park residents found shelter in a Baptist church, clinging to one another as the building disintegrated.


Shi'ite worshippers condemn Bahrain death sentences (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:04 PM PDT

Pakistani Shiite Muslims carry symbolic coffins during a protest in Lahore, against the Bahraini government's sentencing of pro-democracy protestors to death for killing two policemen. The United States criticized the speed of the trial.(AFP/Arif Ali)Reuters - Thousands of Bahraini Shi'ites gathered before a revered cleric on Friday denounced death sentences given to protesters over anti-government rallies crushed last month in the U.S.-allied Gulf kingdom.


Jews praise John Paul II on eve of beatification (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 26, 2000 file photo Pope John Paul II places a signed note with typed words into a crack in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine in Jerusalem's Old City. A visit to Rome's main synagogue. Diplomatic relations with Israel. A handwritten plea asking forgiveness for Christian persecution left at Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem. With his landmark actions, Pope John Paul II strove throughout his 27-year-papacy to overcome the tortured two-millennia history of Catholic-Jewish relations. In a sign of appreciation for those efforts, some in the crowd at his beatification Sunday in St. Peters's Square will be Jews, including an Israeli Cabinet minister who lost most of his family in the Holocaust but was hidden by a Belgium family who raised him as a Christian. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)AP - A visit to Rome's main synagogue. Diplomatic relations with Israel. A handwritten plea asking forgiveness for Christian persecution left at Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem.


William, Kate write prayer for royal wedding (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:03 AM PDT

Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton exchange rings in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey, London, Friday April 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski, Pool)AP - Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, composed a prayer for their wedding at Westminster Abbey.


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