2012年2月14日星期二

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Mormons apologize for posthumous Jewish baptism (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

FILE-- This 1995 file photo shows Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Mormon church leaders have apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual last month. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)AP - Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ritual that Mormons believe allows deceased people a way to the afterlife but offends members of many other religions.

UK government minister slams 'militant secularism' (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, May 13, 2010 file photo, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Conservative Party's co-chairman and minister without portfolio, arrives at Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, for the first cabinet meeting. Europe is threatened by a wave of 'militant secularism' and religion should play a bigger role in public life, Warsi said Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012, the latest British politician to embrace a subject long viewed as a political minefield. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - When it comes to religion, British politicians tend to heed the famous advice of Tony Blair's spin doctor, Alastair Campbell — "We don't do God." In contrast to the United States, the deity is rarely invoked on the campaign trail or in political speeches.

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