2011年11月19日星期六

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


After fire and tornado, Miss. church is rebuilt (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST

In this Nov. 16, 2011 photograph a newly rebuilt Hillcrest Baptist Church stands in place of the previous Yazoo City, Miss., church which was destroyed by a tornado April 24, 2010. Donations from around the world and from its small membership has helped them rebuild almost debt free. The church will be rededicated Sunday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - In this quiet little town where the hill country rises up from the pancake-flat Delta farmlands, reminders of the killer tornado are all around. The bent flag poles and broken crosses, snapped trees and abandoned houses, all claim a spot in the landscape now.


Pope visits cathedral in African voodoo city (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 06:21 AM PST

Reuters - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo temple with a pit full of pythons.

Muslims to NYPD: 'Respect us, we will respect you' (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:55 PM PST

People from New York's Muslim community chant slogans during a rally in Foley Square, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in New York. Hundreds of Muslims gathered in lower Manhattan on Friday to pray and march in protest against a decade of the New York Police Department spying on Muslim communities. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Hundreds of Muslims prayed in a lower Manhattan park and marched to New York Police headquarters Friday to protest a decade of police infiltrating mosques and spying on Muslim neighborhoods.


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