2011年5月2日星期一

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Osama's Islam-violence link weighs heavy on Muslims (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 10:14 AM PDT

A man reads a newspaper near the site of the World Trade Center in New York May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew KellyReuters - Osama bin Laden's radical Islamism has had a devastating impact on Muslims around the world by linking their faith with violence and using religious texts to justify mass killings.


Faithful give thanks for John Paul beatification (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:16 PM PDT

The reliquary containing the blood of late Pope John Paul II is carried in procession prior to a thanksgiving Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, May 2, 2011. Tens of thousands of Catholic faithful have filled St. Peter's Square for a Mass of thanksgiving for the beatification of John Paul II. The Mass is being celebrated by the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Among the large crowds entering the square Monday were many Poles overjoyed at Sunday's beatification of the Polish-born pontiff. After Sunday's beatification, about 250,000 faithful filed past John Paul's simple wooden coffin in St. Peter's Basilica. The pope had been buried in the grottoes underneath the church, but his closed casket was brought to the church's center aisle ahead of the beatification. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - For the second straight day, Roman Catholic faithful filled St. Peter's Square on Monday in an outpouring of thanks for the fast beatification of John Paul II, a joyous celebration of the much-loved late pontiff.


Eye clinics, federal aid all part of Ala. relief (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 03:14 PM PDT

** CORRECTS BYLINE ** A tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. A wave of severe storms laced with tornadoes strafed the South on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people around the region and splintering buildings across swaths of an Alabama university town. (AP Photo/The Tuscaloosa News,  Michelle Lepianka Carter)AP - In the tornado-shattered South, survivors are getting what they need — sometimes more than they ever expected. And it is coming from everywhere.


Amid mourning, search extends for US storm victims (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 02:25 PM PDT

A girl's room is exposed in a destroyed house in the devastated town of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, on May 1. Search and rescue teams combed through the rubble of destruction Monday from a wave of deadly tornadoes, looking for more victims in a disaster that has already claimed nearly 350 lives in the US south.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Search and rescue teams combed through the rubble of destruction Monday from a wave of deadly tornadoes, looking for more victims in a disaster that has already claimed nearly 350 lives in the US south.


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