2011年8月25日星期四

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Pope earns rare praise from leading German leftist (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead the weekly general audience at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in southern Rome, August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Alessandro BianchiReuters - Pope Benedict has reaped praise before his visit to his German homeland next month from one of the last people one would expect -- the sharp-tongued leader of the former communists from old East Germany.


Man arrested for hate crime in Ore. mosque fire (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT

This Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, booking photo provided by the Polk County Sherif,  shows Cody Crawford. Crawford, 24, has been arrested on hate crime charges for the November, 2010 firebombing of the Salman Al-Farisi mosque in Corvallis, Ore.(AP Photo/Polk County Sheriff Department, HO)AP - Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of firebombing an Oregon mosque last year and said he was motivated by racial hatred following the arrest of a Muslim man accused of plotting to set off a car bomb in Portland.


NY Muslims feel targeted despite alliance promise (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT

In this photo made Aug. 18, 2011, people pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Even as the New York Police Department sent undercover officers into Muslim neighborhoods to detect possible terrorist activities in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, government officials there and elsewhere have sought to build relationships in Muslim communities and pledged to ensure that Muslims aren't targeted for discrimination.


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