2011年10月23日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Religion claims its place in Occupy Wall Street (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT

In this Oct. 14, 2011 photo, Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry speaks to various religious leaders who have come together to pledge their support to the Occupy Wall Street protests at Judson Memorial Church in New York. Organizers of protests in cities across the country have taken pains to include a religious component because they say cultivating the spirit of love and unity is an important part of bringing change. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)AP - Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy.

Pope names 3 new saints, man disrupts Mass (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:49 PM PDT

An unidentified man holds a copy of the Holy Bible as he stands on the edge of the colonnade that surrounds St. Peter's square at the Vatican, during a beatification Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Vatican gendarmes, a bishop and the pope's own bodyguard eventually talked the man down from the upper reaches of the colonnade after he shouted, 'Pope, where is Christ?' in English. The disruption came toward the end of a two-hour Mass Sunday to canonize three 19th-century founders of religious orders: Italian bishop and missionary Monsignor Guido Maria Conforti, Spanish nun Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro and an Italian priest who worked with the poor, the Rev. Luigi Guanella. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI named three new saints for the Catholic Church during Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square that was disrupted by a man who climbed out onto the upper colonnade and burned a bible.

Shuttlesworth eclipsed by King in life and death (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 09:09 AM PDT

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's children, widow, and others sing during his memorial service Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in Birmingham, Ala., at Bethel Baptist Church in the Collegeville neighborhood where he was a pastor from 1953-1961. He was a civil rights leader who helped transform Birmingham by challenging its racial segregation laws. This memorial was the first of several. His final service will be Monday. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Tamika Moore) MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP - When a little-known black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham trying to start a movement, but nobody was paying attention.

Bomber killed before attack on Afghan Minister's car (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:49 AM PDT

Reuters - A suicide bomber targeted the Afghan interior minister's car in a convoy north of Kabul on Sunday, the ministry said, but the minister was not in the vehicle at the time and the attacker was killed before he could detonate his explosives.

Pope names two Italians, Spanish nun as new saints (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Pope Benedict proclaimed two Italian priests and a Spanish nun as saints on Sunday, urging the faithful to follow their examples of a holy life devoted to charity.

Iran lawmakers target two Ahmadinejad ministers (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran's parliament threatened on Sunday to impeach two of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ministers, in a new wave of pressure against the president who is under attack from lawmakers.

Conservative Romney alternatives vie for Iowa edge (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:38 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, center, greets an unidentified hunter before 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 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, Iowa's most potent conservative voting bloc, are sharply divided barely 10 weeks away from the state's leadoff presidential caucuses, and are weighing a number of GOP hopefuls competing hard to emerge as the more conservative alternative to early front-runner Mitt Romney.

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