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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Undecided Iowans weighing who to back (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 04:44 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, center, shakes hands with a store owner during a campaign stop, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - For Republicans here, the ideal presidential candidate would blend Ron Paul's ideological passion with Mitt Romney's electability. Newt Gingrich's intelligence with Rick Perry's evangelical appeal. Add a dash of social conservatism from Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum — and stir.


Leader of U.S. ex-Anglicans says won't forget roots (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 03:11 PM PST

Reuters - The new leader of disaffected U.S. Anglicans who have converted or want to convert to Catholicism said Monday his flock would strive to learn the culture of the Catholic Church without forgetting the "noble Anglican tradition."

Jewish friend of late Pope John Paul II dies (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, March 23, 2000 file photo, Pope John Paul II greets World War II death camp survivor, and boyhood friend, Jerzy Kluger, during a visit to the Yad Vashem Memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem. Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II, has died in a clinic near Rome. Kluger's wife, Irene, told The Associated Press that her husband, who was 90, had died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for three years and was buried Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Isaac Harari/GPO/ File)AP - Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90.


Jewish friend who influenced Pope John Paul dies (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 12:08 PM PST

Reuters - Jerzy Kluger, the Polish Jewish boyhood friend of the late Pope John Paul who had a major influence on the pontiff's revolutionary relations with Jews, has died, friends said on Monday.

Sainthood next year for 2 from NY's Mohawk Valley (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 09:23 AM PST

in a Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 photo, Phyllis Tessitore of Amsterdam, N.Y., says a prayer in front of a statue of the the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha at the National Kateri Shrine and Indian Museum in Fonda, N.Y. Tekakwitha, who will be canonized next year, was a Native American baptized in 1676 in the Mohawk Valley. She fled to a mission in Canada after being scorned and threatened in her home village near what is now the village of Fonda. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - No one making a religious pilgrimage to Catholic shrines in this scenic yet hardscrabble stretch of New York's Mohawk Valley is going to mistake it for Italy. Yet starting next year, the region can boast of being the home of two of the Roman Catholic Church's newest saints.


New York firebomb attacks hit mosque, Hindu site (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 08:00 AM PST

Reuters - New York police are investigating as bias crimes four Molotov cocktail attacks on Sunday night including one against a mosque with 75 people inside and another against a Hindu place of worship.

Pope Benedict XVI to visit Cuba March 26-28 (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 07:45 PM PST

Reuters - Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cuba on March 26-28 and perform two open-air masses on the communist island as part of his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba, Roman Catholic Church officials said on Sunday.
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