2012年10月9日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Motel workers discuss church bomb plot arrest

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:03 PM PDT

This June 2007 family photo provided by the Weiler/Meyers family shows, Greg Weiler, center with his legal guardians, aunt Joanne Meyers, and uncle Chris Meyers at his high school graduation from Elk Grove High School, in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Wieler who has a a long history of mental illness has been charged with plotting to attack dozens of churches in Oklahoma with home made Molotov cocktails. Weiler's parents both committed suicide, and Weiler has battled drug addiction and A bright green duffel bag caught maintenance worker Ralph Smith's eye as he emptied trash in a bin at motel just off a major interstate in northeast Oklahoma.


Pope hopes latest book brings people to Jesus

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 01:55 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI says he hopes his latest book on Jesus — about his infancy — will help bring people closer to Christ.

What's ahead for US as more Americans lose connection to religion

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT

One-fifth of US adults – including one third of adults under age 30 – identify as religiously unaffiliated, the highest percentage ever recorded by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religious and Public Life.

Americans increasingly report no religious affiliation: study

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

A broken cross is seen on the top of a church in New Orleans.(Reuters) - One out of five U.S. adults do not identify with a specific religion, and the number of Protestants has for the first time dipped significantly below 50 percent, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Pew researchers said the growing ranks of those with no religious affiliation suggests that Americans slowly may be becoming less religious. ...


Israel condemns Jerusalem church vandalism

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 08:56 AM PDT

A Palestinian elderly woman collects olives from broken olive tree branches in the village of Qusra, northern West Bank, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Eli cut more than 70 olive trees overnight. Olives are the backbone of Palestinian agriculture. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)Israel's foreign minister has condemned the vandalism of the Romanian church in Jerusalem, the latest in a string of attacks on Christian sites in the Holy Land.


Chilean Catholic bishop accused of abuse resigns: Vatican

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 08:02 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict accepted the resignation on Tuesday of a bishop in Chile accused of sexually abusing a minor, the latest in a series of such scandals to rock the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican did not specify the reason for the resignation of Bishop Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez of the city of Iquique but it followed a complaint by a local man, Rodrigo Pino, who said he had been abused by the prelate when he was 15. ...

Protestants no longer majority in US, report says; number of Americans with no religion spikes

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 07:30 AM PDT

NEW YORK, N.Y. - For the first time in its history, the United States does not have a Protestant majority, according to a new study. One reason: The number of Americans with no religious affiliation is on the rise.

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