2011年7月23日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


When divorce refused, Orthodox Jewish society acts (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 18, 2011 file photo, Rabbi David Wax, 49, walks out of federal court, in Trenton, N.J., after a brief appearance before being released on $500,000 bond, as a grand jury will decide whether to indict Wax and his wife, Judy Wax, 47, on kidnapping charges, which could result in a life sentence if they are convicted. They surrendered to the FBI earlier in the day on charges that they abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn't give his wife a religious divorce. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)AP - Yisrael Briskman's wife in Israel wanted a divorce, and a rabbinical court decided she should be granted one. But Briskman refused and fled to the United States, where the FBI says an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and his wife lured him to their New Jersey home, kidnapped him and said they'd bury him alive in the Pocono Mountains if he didn't relent.


Pope urges Norwegians to reject hatred and conflict (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Pope Benedict expressed sympathy Saturday for the victims of a suspected right-wing zealot who killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack and urged Norwegians to reject hatred and violence.

Norway mourns 92 victims after 'hell on paradise island' (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT

A group of young people mourn for the victims of the July 22 shooting at a Norwegian Labour Youth League camp outside the Oslo Cathedral. Norwegian police said they were questioning a right-wing suspect Saturday over the massacre of 92 people in twin attacks that the prime minister said had turned an island paradise into hell on earth.(AFP/Jan Johannessen)AFP - Norwegian police said they were questioning a right-wing suspect Saturday over the massacre of 92 people in twin attacks that the prime minister said had turned an island paradise into hell on earth.


Norway police say 84 killed in Utoeya shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Norwegian police said Saturday a gunman, believed to be a fundamentalist Christian, killed at least 84 people at a youth camp on Utoeya island.

Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:38 PM PDT

EDS NOTE: IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED BY THE ORIGINAL SOURCE TO REMOVE THE BACKGROUND - This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23, 2011. Breivik is a suspect in a bombing in Oslo and a shooting on a nearby island which occurred on Friday, July 22, 2011. The Norwegian news agency NTB said Breivik wrote a 1,500-page manifesto before the attack in which he attacked multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. The document, which contained this and other photos, also described how to acquire explosives. (AP Photo/via Scanpix)AP - Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.


(AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:48 AM PDT

AP - APNewsBreak: Police official says Oslo explosion caused by `Oklahoma City-type' bomb

Catholic diocese offers to buy Crystal Cathedral (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:27 PM PDT

AP - A Roman Catholic diocese made a $50 million cash offer to buy Southern California's financially struggling Crystal Cathedral, officials said Friday.
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