2012年8月17日星期五

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Chicago's Catholic Cardinal George has recurrence of cancer

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:11 PM PDT

Chicago Cardinal Francis George offers a graveside blessing to the remains of indigent people at Mt. Olivet cemetery on the southwest side of ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis George had cancerous cells removed from his kidney and liver this week, six years after he underwent surgery for bladder cancer, the diocese said on Friday. George, who oversees 2.3 million Catholics in the nation's third-largest diocese after Los Angeles and New York, had a procedure on Wednesday removing the cancerous cells in his kidney and a nodule on his liver. He discussed a course of treatment with his doctors, the archdiocese said in a brief statement on its website. George, a former president of the U.S. ...


Activists get 2 years for anti-Putin church stunt

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT

FILE In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 file photo feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Three members of Pussy Riot were jailed in March and charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after their punk performance against President Putin in Moscow's main cathedral. Theyare awaiting the verdict on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, file)Three punk rock-style activists who briefly took over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism on Friday, a decision that drew protests around the world as it highlighted the Russian president's intensifying crackdown on dissent.


Russian church urges state to show "mercy" to Pussy Riot

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:22 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Orthodox Church urged the state to show mercy to three women from the rock group Pussy Riot jailed on Friday over a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a church, raising the possibility that it could back a pardon or a reduction of their terms. The church reiterated its criticism of the women from the punk collective, saying their protest in Moscow's Christ the Saviour cathedral was "blasphemy" and displayed "crude hostility towards millions of people". ...

Nigerian police arrest governor's aide over church massacre

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Nigerian police stand on guard during the country's elections in 2011Nigerian police said Friday they had arrested a governor's aide over a church massacre and an attack on a military patrol that killed 23 people, but his involvement was not clear.


Books and art pit freedom of religion against free speech in Tunisia

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:17 AM PDT

Before last year's revolution, police would drop by the Librairie Mille Feuilles in this upscale Tunis suburb to look for books deemed politically deviant. The bookshop has since attracted a different kind of scrutiny.

Russian, Polish churches appeal for forgiveness

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:57 AM PDT

Patriarch Kirill , leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, left, and head of Poland's Roman Catholic church archbishop Jozef Michalik smile after talks in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Patriarch Kirill came to Poland for a four day official visit. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)The leaders of Russia's Orthodox church and Poland's Catholic church signed a document Friday that urges their nations to forgive each other for past wrongs.


Czech PM confident can override vetoes on tax hike, church bill

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Czech PM Necas arrives at news conference in PraguePRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government will secure enough votes to override Senate vetoes of its flagship bills on tax hikes and the return of confiscated church property despite having lost its majority in parliament, the prime minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Prime Minister Petr Necas's centre-right coalition won elections two years ago on a pledge to cut the budget deficit, but faces a tough task passing legislation in the lower house, where the three ruling parties now hold only half the 200 seats. ...


Waiting for a miracle: Is it inhumane for religious parents to prolong treatment of sick kids?

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:41 AM PDT

The authors of a medical study argue that doctors should have the last word in end-of-life cases involving children, because some parents hold out too long for a miracle

Unification Church founder still critical

Posted: 16 Aug 2012 07:25 PM PDT

The Unification Church was set up by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul in 1954The founder of the controversial Unification Church remains critically ill three days after he was admitted to a South Korean hospital with complications from pneumonia, his spokesman said Friday.


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