2012年1月6日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

48 Catholic schools in Philly to close, reorganize (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:05 PM PST

Auxiliary Bishop John J. McIntyre listens to the recommendations of the blue ribbon commission, during a news conference at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia headquarters in Philadelphia on Friday Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia plans to shutter about a quarter of its Roman Catholic high schools and close or combine nearly 30 percent of its elementary schools mainly because of rising costs and low enrollment, officials said Friday.

About one in four Philadelphia Catholic schools to shut (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:18 PM PST

Reuters - Roughly one in four Catholic schools in the Philadelphia area will be shuttered at the end of this academic year, hit by falling enrollment and rising tuition costs, the archdiocese said on Friday.

Race questions cloud lawsuit over Jewish cemetery (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST

A grave marker for Juliet Steer is seen in an interfaith area of the Congregation Ahavath Achim cemetery in Colchester, Conn., Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Maria Balaban, a member of the congregation, has filed a lawsuit alleging the congregation broke its own rule against burials of non-Jews at the cemetery and is seeking to have Steer's remains exhumed and moved because Steer is not Jewish. The dispute over Steer, who was black, escalated recently with allegations of racism against the plaintiff and of retaliation against her by fellow congregation members. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Juliet Steer was dying of cancer when she chose her final resting place in the woods of southeastern Connecticut. She picked the plot in an interfaith section of a Jewish cemetery in Colchester because it was peaceful, her brother said, and she died at age 47 in 2010.

Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:24 PM PST

Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, kisses the wooden cross after it was being retrieved by Apostolis Oikomoniv from the water during an Epiphany ceremony to bless the water in the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany Day were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes. Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians threw the cross into the water and swimmers raced to be the first to retrieve it.(AP Photo )AP - Orthodox Christian worshippers plunged into chilly waters across southern and eastern Europe on Friday to retrieve crucifixes in ceremonies commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.

Pope names 22 new cardinals, including 2 Americans (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:05 AM PST

Newly elected US bishop Charles John Brown, left, and newly elected bishop Marek Solczynski from Poland lay during their ordaining ceremony led by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter' s Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI clearly put his stamp on the group that will eventually elect his successor with his naming of 22 new cardinals Friday, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong.

Pope names new cardinals who'll choose successor (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:58 AM PST

Reuters - Pope Benedict, increasing the chances the next pontiff will be a conservative European, on Friday named 22 new cardinals, the red-hatted "princes of the Church" who are his closest aides and will one day choose his successor.

As U.S. Explores Dialogue with Muslim Brotherhood, Israelis Urge a Tougher Line Against Islamists' Rise (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:35 AM PST

Time.com - Unlike its predecessor, the Obama Administration has understood the limits on Washington's ability to remake the Middle East to its own specifications

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