2012年2月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 photo, a person walks on the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the University at Buffalo, the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - New York's mayor is facing off with Yale University over efforts by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups.

Southern Baptists vote to keep name but add alternative (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST

Reuters - Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant denomination, on Tuesday opted against changing a name that has proved problematic for some churches because of its connection to the South and slavery.

Southern Baptist leaders OK 'Great Commission' (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention is shown in Nashville, Tenn. The nation's largest protestant denomination will definitely remain 'Baptist,' but leaders are thinking about whether it will be 'Southern' for much longer. Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright was expected to present the recommendation of a task force assigned to study a name change to the denomination's executive committee at a meeting Monday night, Feb. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)AP - Some Southern Baptists worry that their denomination's name still carries the stigma of a 19th century split with northern Baptists over slavery. Others who fought hard to build the brand and its conservative theology and politics don't want to see it go.

Exclusive: Algeria to allow foreign NGOs to monitor vote (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:35 PM PST

Reuters - Election observers from U.S. non-governmental organizations the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute will for the first time be able to monitor a parliamentary election in Algeria later this year, the interior minister said on Tuesday.

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