2011年10月22日星期六

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen speaking to the AP, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944,  died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct.  22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.


Conservative Romney alternatives vie for Iowa edge (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:49 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, left, during a hunting outing near Merrill, Iowa, Saturday Oct. 22, 2011. About a half-dozen Republican candidates and about 1,000 evangelical activists plan to attend the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in Des Moines Saturday, as the Republican presidential campaign continues its search for a more conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)AP - Evangelical activists are Iowa's most potent Republican voting bloc and the fight for their support is in full swing among the presidential candidates competing to emerge as a more conservative alternative to early front-runner Mitt Romney.


Clinton warns Central Asian leaders on radical Islam (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:42 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Tajikistan Prime Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi depart a joint media availability after their meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, October 22, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday that efforts to crack down on religious freedom might backfire.


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