2012年6月10日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Gunmen and suicide bomber attack Nigerian churches

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 03:45 PM PDT

MAIDUGURI/JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked two churches in Nigeria on Sunday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets, killing at least one person, and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, wounding 41, witnesses and police said. No one was killed by the car bombing in the central city of Jos, but youths attacked bystanders in retaliation, killing two, police said. Islamist group Boko Haram's spokesman Abu Qaqa claimed responsibility for both attacks. ...

Boko Haram church attacks kill 3, wound dozens in Nigeria

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 01:17 PM PDT

People gather outside the ruins of a church targeted by a suicide bombing in a church in JosA suicide bomber blew his car up outside a church and gunmen opened fire on another service in Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people and wounding dozens in attacks claimed by Boko Haram.


NYC mayor defends "stop and frisk" at black church

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took his defense of the police department's "Stop and Frisk" program to one of Brooklyn's highest crime communities on Sunday, championing the program from the pulpit of a black church in Brownsville. Civil rights advocates, civil libertarians and a federal judge have criticized some aspects of the program as unlawful, abusive of residents' rights and disproportionately aimed at blacks and Latinos. ...

Catholic faith on line as church rallies in Dublin

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:19 AM PDT

Worshippers attend the opening Mass of the Catholic Church's Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland, on Sunday June 10, 2012. The weeklong event involving Catholic leaders worldwide has focused attention on declining observance of the faith in Ireland amid ongoing child-abuse scandals. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)An international conference celebrating Roman Catholicism opened Sunday in Ireland against a backdrop of anger over child abuse cover-ups and evidence of declining faith in core church beliefs.


20,000 at Catholic festival in Ireland

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 10:48 AM PDT

Pope John Paul II (C) stands in the Vatican with those attending the 2002 International Eucharistic CongressAround 20,000 pilgrims on Sunday attended the start of an international Catholic festival of faith and culture in Ireland where the church has been hit by child abuse scandals and falling attendance.


Vatican bank has no secret accounts, official says

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 08:52 AM PDT

President of the Vatican bank (IOR) Ettore Gotti Tedeschi speaks during the presentation of his new book "The Economic Reasons" in downtown Rome in this February 22, 2012 file photo.ROME (Reuters) - A senior official of the Vatican's bank denied on Sunday a reports that prominent Italian lay clients including politicians held secret numbered accounts at the institution, which is caught up in a money laundering investigation. The Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) has been in the spotlight since 2010 when Italian investigators froze 23 million euros ($28.75 million) of its funds in Italian banks as part of their inquiry. ...


Bomb explodes at church in central Nigeria, a restive region divided between faiths

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 04:28 AM PDT

JOS, Nigeria - Witnesses say a bomb has exploded at a church in a restive central Nigerian city on the dividing line between the nation's Muslim north and Christian south, causing unknown injuries.

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