2012年12月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


US governor vetoes bill allowing concealed weapons in churches, schools, daycares

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:28 PM PST

DETROIT - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has vetoed legislation that would allow concealed weapons in churches, schools and daycare centres.

"No religion" third world group after Christians, Muslims

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:04 AM PST

(Reuters) - People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world's faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus. The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the future while Jews have the weakest growth prospects. It showed Christianity is the most evenly spread religion, present in all regions of the world, while Hinduism is the least global with 94 percent of its population in one country, India. ...

Former pop star Frankie Valens becomes pastor of small church in US

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:13 AM PST

as a preacher at a small church in the U.S.

First of 8 funerals at Newtown church begins

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:57 AM PST

Pallbearers carry the casket containing the body of James Mattioli into St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church for funeral services, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Mattioli, 6, was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Family members have gathered for the first of eight funerals for school shooting victims to be held at a Catholic church in Newtown, Conn.


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