2011年6月26日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Romanian Orthodox church attracts cyber-followers (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 12:39 PM PDT

A picture taken on June 24 in Bucharest shows a computer displaying a home page of the web site called AFP - The Romanian Orthodox Church, known as a bastion of conservatism, has broken a taboo by embracing the Internet and tending to its flock via cyberspace.


Israel's Vatican envoy backs off WWII pope praise (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, May 12, 2008, file photo photo released by Vatican paper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI meets Israeli Ambassador Mordechay Levy, at the Vatican.  Israel's ambassador to the Vatican has backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope blamed by some Jews for having failed to speak out enough against the Holocaust. Ambassador Mordechay Levy said in a statement Sunday, June 26, 2011, that his personal judgment had been 'premature.'' Levy made headlines last week when he praised the pope and the Catholic Church in general for taking in Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Italian capital. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Israel's ambassador to the Vatican on Sunday backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope blamed by some Jews and historians for having failed to speak out enough against the Holocaust.


Egyptians stone police cars at former minister's trial (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 03:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Families of Egyptians killed and injured in protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak hurled stones at police vehicles outside the court where the former interior minister was being tried Sunday, witnesses said.
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