2011年9月17日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Rising Hindu nationalist seeks moderate image with fast (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 04:11 AM PDT

Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi speaks during the concluding session of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit 2011 (VGGIS) at Gandhinagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat January 13, 2011. REUTERS/Amit DaveReuters - A pro-business Hindu leader who some think could be India's next prime minister began a "harmony" fast on Saturday to soften his image as a hard-liner blamed for religious riots that claimed hundreds of mostly Muslim victims nine years ago.


Jews worried by Vatican gesture to traditionalists (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Some Jewish groups voiced concern Friday that the Vatican might be calling into question more than 40 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations by reaching out to a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop.
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