2011年10月3日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Ohio Muslim inmates sue over meal preparation (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Abdul Awkal. Muslim inmates say the Ohio prison system is denying them meals prepared according to Islamic law, known as halal, while at the same time providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners, according to a federal lawsuit that alleges a civil rights violation. Awkal says the prison system’s failure to provide the halal meals is a restraint on his religious freedoms. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)AP - A Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio prison system is denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while at the same time providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners, according to a federal lawsuit that alleges a civil rights violation.


Court turns away appeal over commandments display (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:37 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of an Ohio judge wanting to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

The Narrative of Libyan Jewish Renaissance Has Hit a Snag (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:44 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Related: Qaddafi: Intervening in Libya Would Be 'Worse Than Afghanistan'

Ban on judge's Ten Commandments poster stands as Supreme Court declines case (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:32 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case examining whether an Ohio judge violated the separation of church and state when he displayed a poster in his courtroom that contrasted the Ten Commandments with humanist precepts.

Lawyers seek NYPD spy docs as lawmakers duck issue (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:04 PM PDT

AP - Civil rights lawyers on Monday raised the first opposition to New York Police Department efforts to spy on Muslims, an operation that politicians have been reluctant to even discuss.

Articles of Faith: Is the Death Penalty in Keeping with Catholic Doctrine (and Should Justice Scalia Resign)? (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Time.com - As increasing numbers of death row inmates are exonerated and questions swirl about the possibility that states have executed innocent individuals, abolition of the death penalty has become as critical as opposition to abortion for some Catholics

Mosque fire in Israel blamed on Jewish extremists (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:04 AM PDT

Reuters - A mosque in a Bedouin village in northern Israel was set on fire and graffiti sprayed on its walls overnight on Monday, locals said, in an attack blamed on Jewish extremists.

Charleston singers keep spiritual, oral traditions alive (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Reuters - At an historic African American Episcopal Church in Charleston, the Mt. Zion Spiritual Singers keep alive a century-old tradition -- singing unpublished Negro spirituals passed down orally and accompanied only by hand clapping and foot stomping.
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