2011年8月2日星期二

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Catholic school principal fired for white supremacist views (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:29 AM PDT

Reuters - The Archdiocese of New York fired a Bronx Catholic school principal whose white supremacist beliefs were "found to be incompatible with the philosophy and practices" of the church, the archdiocese said on Tuesday.

More Muslim Americans believe they are thriving, poll says (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Muslim Americans are now more optimistic about their lives than any other major American faith group as their economic well-being improves and they feel more politically enfranchised.

Bombers target churches in northern Iraq: police (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT

Reuters - A car bomb exploded near a Catholic Church in northern Iraq on Tuesday, injuring at least 16 people in part of a coordinated attack on Christian places of worship in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk, a senior police official said.

Car bomb at Kirkuk church injures 15: police (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:57 PM PDT

An Iraqi man stands outside the Holy Family church in the north of Kirkuk on August 2, 2011, after a car bomb exploded and injured 15 people including church staff.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a police officer and a priest said.


How Pakistani minutemen are fighting the Taliban 'false Muslims' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:12 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When the Taliban descended upon this land of craggy mountains and misty waterfalls, they razed girls schools, kidnapped villagers for ransom money, and killed elders, all under the banner of Islam.
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