2012年9月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Nine people accuse Philadelphia church of sexual abuse

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:53 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Eight men and a woman publicly accused Roman Catholic priests and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Tuesday of child sex abuse, saying they found courage to come forward after the conviction in June of a top church official in the wide-ranging pedophilia scandal. The nine filed civil lawsuits accusing the Archdiocese and church officials of conspiring to conceal incidents of sex abuse, failing to address the problem and ignoring complaints about abusive clergy, according to attorneys who announced the cases at a news conference in Philadelphia. ...

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:31 PM PDT

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim filmWhile the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny ...


Egypt: Court sentences Christian to 6 years for posts insulting Prophet Muhammad and president

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT

CAIRO - A court in southern Egypt has sentenced a Coptic Christian teacher to six years in prison for posting on his Facebook page drawings that it ruled insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and comments deemed an affront to the country's president.

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Islam film

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:11 AM PDT

A Muslim youth pauses near a poster during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Indonesians enraged over an anti-Islam film hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Monday, marking the first violence in the world's most populous Muslim country since outrage exploded last week in the Middle East and beyond. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)The U.S. government's protection of free speech rights is clashing with religion abroad in the case of an Egyptian-born American citizen whose anti-Islamic film has sparked protests in the Middle East.


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