2012年11月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Pope to join celebs, presidents with Twitter feed

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 01:35 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 24,2012 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience. The Vatican spokesman on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 said that the 85-year-old Benedict will start tweeting from a personal Twitter account, perhaps before the end of the year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)He already has a billion followers.

Next archbishop of Canterbury announcement Friday

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 12:56 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2011 file photo, the Bishop of Durham, the Right Reverend Justin Welby. The next archbishop of Canterbury will be officially introduced Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 with the expectation that the new leader of the world's Anglicans will be former oil company executive Jason Welby. (AP Photo/PA, Owen Humphreys, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVEThe next archbishop of Canterbury will be officially introduced Friday, the British government says, and the expectation is that the new leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans will be former oil company executive Justin Welby.

Pope to join tweeting masses with personal Twitter handle, details to come

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 11:43 AM PST

VATICAN CITY - Celebrities do it. Presidents do it. Now even the pope will do it.

Churches force Malawi to change tune on anti-gay law

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 06:56 AM PST

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's government has back-tracked on its decision to suspend arrests of gays, after churches in the strongly Christian country fiercely criticized the move. Justice minister Ralph Kasambara was widely quoted in media this week as saying the government would suspend arrests pending a decision on whether to repeal laws banning homosexuality. However, on Thursday he said he had never made such statements and that laws carrying up to 14 years in prison for committing homosexual acts were still being enforced. ...

Czech parliament votes to return confiscated church property

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 02:09 AM PST

Czech Republic's Prime Minister and Chairman of the Civic Democratic Party Necas gives a speech during the party's congress in BrnoPRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech parliament on Thursday approved an ambitious plan to return billions of dollars worth of church property that was confiscated by the communists in a vote that represented a victory for Prime Minister Petr Necas. The law envisages handing churches land, property, and financial compensation worth about $7 billion over a period of 30 years. Under the plan, the churches would become independent from the state and gradually stop getting government financing. ...

Parliament OKs landmark religious compensation law

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 11:17 PM PST

The lower house of Parliament has overruled an upper house veto and gave a green light to a plan by the center-right government to pay billions of dollars in compensation for property seized by the former totalitarian Communist regime.

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