2012年8月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Nigerian city under curfew after church massacre, gun battle

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Constitution Road in Kaduna, Nigeria, amid a curfew in June 2012Authorities in Nigeria's Kogi state have slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on a key city after a church massacre and a gunfight between militants and troops left at least 23 people dead, officials said Wednesday.


Israeli scholar completes mission to 'fix' Bible

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:04 AM PDT

A Tuesday, July 31, 2012 photo, shows biblical scholar Professor Menachem Cohen, reading from a book, at the library of Bar Ilan University, outside Tel Aviv, Israel. For the past 30 years the 84-year-old Judaic biblical scholar has been immersed in a Sisyphean task of correcting all known errors in Jewish scripture to produce a definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible. Now, thanks to the internet, he's bringing it to the general public like never before with a sophisticated search engine that allows even novices to explore the holy text with ease.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)For the past 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: Correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a truly definitive edition of the Old Testament.


19 killed at central Nigeria church Bible study

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Three men entered a central Nigerian church just before Bible study began, but instead of joining the worship service they opened fire, killing at least 19 people in an attack that shows that violence is spreading in the divided nation.
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