2012年1月11日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Episcopal church wins control of Va. Churches (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:10 PM PST

AP - The Episcopal Church should be restored as the owner of several historic churches in Virginia, a judge has ruled, years after the denomination was essentially evicted by local congregations dismayed with Episcopal leadership's liberal theology.

High court keeps judges out of church job disputes (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:09 PM PST

AP - Religious workers can't sue for job discrimination, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, saying for the first time that churches — not courts — are the best judges of whether clergy and other religious employees should be fired or hired.

Top U.S. official meets Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 12:12 PM PST

Reuters - The number two official in the U.S. State Department met with a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday but chose not to see a more hardline Islamist group that has also fared well in Egypt's first free legislative vote in decades.

Czech govt OKs landmark religious compensation law (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo the sun sets behind the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech Republic's coalition government has approved a plan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, to compensate religious organizations for property seized by the former Communist regime. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)AP - Churches were seized, priests jailed or executed and those who were still allowed to lead religious services did so under the watchful eye of the secret police. More than 22 years after the fall of Communism, the Czech government agreed Wednesday to pay billions of dollars in compensation for property seized by the former totalitarian regime.

US raises outreach to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:36 AM PST

A woman casts her vote at a polling site during run-off voting in the parliamentary election in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday dismissed concerns about the success of Islamist parties in Egypt's first elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, because it represents the will of the Egyptian people. Carter's Atlanta-based Carter Center has sent 40 observers to monitor Egypt's staggered parliamentary elections since voting started in late November, the freest and fairest in decades. Under Mubarak, elections were blatantly rigged, and turnout was often tiny.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - The U.S. has held its highest contacts to date with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt's New Political Equation: The Military, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:35 AM PST

Time.com - With predictions of conflict and of cooperation, how will everything add up?

Jimmy Carter on Egypt, the Arab Spring... and Tebow (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:35 AM PST

Time.com - An interview with the evangelical former President of the United States who was key to the treaty that brought peace to Egypt and Israel

High court: ministers can't sue churches for bias (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:10 AM PST

Reuters - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday for the first time in an important church-state separation issue that ministers cannot sue their churches claiming they had been fired in violation of employment discrimination laws.

Bomb plot suspect rails against Christians, Jews (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:11 AM PST

AP - A man accused of plotting to attack Tampa, Fla.-area nightclubs and a sheriff's office with bombs and guns also railed against Christians, Jews and Western living in videos he posted online.

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