2011年8月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Spain: Student plotted attack on anti-Pope crowd (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:26 PM PDT

A demonstrator shouts slogans agains the next visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Madrid Wednesday Aug. 17, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive Thursday for a nearly four-day visit to celebrate World Youth Day, and thousands of protesters railing against his visit marched through central Madrid to the central Sol plaza where they have held months of demonstrations against the government's anti-austerity policies.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - A chemistry student working as a volunteer for the pope's visit to Madrid was arrested on suspicion of planning a gas attack targeting protesters opposed to the pontiff's stay, officials said Wednesday.

Muslim nations pledge help for Somalia (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:13 PM PDT

A Somali girl from southern Somalia sit behind barbed wire in a line to receive food at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug, 17, 2011. The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding its food distribution efforts in famine-struck Somalia, where the U.N. estimates that only 20 percent of people needing aid are getting it.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)AP - The United Nations appealed for $1.2 billion Wednesday for famine victims in Somalia and its Horn of Africa neighbors and Muslim nations pledged to contribute $350 million.

Pope arrives in Spain in time of economic turmoil (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. Benedict XVI lands Thursday in the Spanish capital of Madrid for a four-day visit to greet up to a million or more young pilgrims from around the planet for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - When the pope arrives in Spain this week, it's not just sweltering heat he'll be stepping into. The economy's in a shambles. Jobless youths are filled with rage and frustration. Politicians are gearing up for early elections that will be dominated by these hard times.

Religion news in brief (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:05 AM PDT

AP - Judge denies temporary injunction that would have blocked broad Indiana school voucher program

Priests to forgive abortion in Pope youth festival (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:54 AM PDT

Pilgrims walk inside a school that is hosting them on the second day of the World Youth Day meeting in Madrid August 17, 2011. REUTERS/Andrea ComasReuters - The Vatican has granted priests the right to forgive the sin of abortion when hearing the confessions of hundreds of thousands of young people attending a Roman Catholic youth festival in Spain this week.

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