2013年9月10日星期二

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Congress honors Birmingham church bombing victims

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Lawrence Pijeaux, front, lays on a table the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously awarded in honor of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, the four young black girls who lost their lives in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, presented by Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, back center, during a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Others are, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., from back left, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., obscured, unidentified, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate leaders on Tuesday awarded Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in the Alabama church bombing nearly 50 years ago that became a watershed moment in the civil rights movement.


Congress bestows highest honor on Alabama church-bombing victims

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 03:40 PM PDT

By Verna Gates (Reuters) - Four Alabama girls killed 50 years ago in a church bombing that galvanized the civil rights movement were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, the highest honor the nation's leaders can bestow on civilians. On the morning of September 15, 1963, a Ku Klux Klan bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 11-year-old Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson. ...

Jihadists force Syria Christian to 'convert at gunpoint'

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:29 PM PDT

The coffin of a Christian Syrian killed in Maalula is carried during a funeral march in Damascus on September 10, 2013Jihadists who overran Syria's ancient Christian town of Maalula last week forced at least one person to convert to Islam at gunpoint and executed another one, residents said Tuesday.


Pope says empty convents and monasteries should house refugees

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Pope Francis waves as he leaves at the end of a private visit at the Church of the Gesu in RomeROME (Reuters) - Disused church buildings should be used to house refugees, who must be embraced rather than feared, Pope Francis told asylum seekers in Rome on Tuesday, underlining his papacy's emphasis on the poor and the plight of immigrants. Turning convents and monasteries that have emptied due to a drop in vocations into hotels has raised funds for the Church, but also attracted criticism. "Empty convents and monasteries should not be turned into hotels by the Church to earn money ... ...


Syria rebels announce withdrawal from Christian town

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:49 PM PDT

The coffin of a Christian Syrian killed in Maalula is carried during a funeral march in Damascus on September 10, 2013Syrian rebel fighters announced on Tuesday their withdrawal from the historic Christian town of Maalula near Damascus, two days after they took control of it.


Quebec presents bid to ban religious garb

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:14 PM PDT

Baptised Sikhs, known as the beloved ones, march in a parade with karpans (swords) April 10, 2004 in Vancouver, CanadaOfficials in Quebec Tuesday presented their controversial bid to ban religious apparel -- including headscarves, turbans and yarmulkes -- on public sector workers, part of an overhaul to the Canadian province's "Charter of Values."


Quebec seeks to ban public workers from wearing religious symbols

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:25 AM PDT

Quebec government website shows examples of acceptable and unacceptable religious symbols allowed to be worn by public servants, according to its proposed Charter of Quebec ValuesBy David Ljunggren (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Quebec will not allow public servants to wear Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps or other obvious religious symbols under a new charter unveiled on Tuesday that is designed to cement a secular society. The pro-independence government of the predominantly French-speaking province says its Charter of Quebec Values will help create a distinct identity for its 8 million people. ...


Pope visits refugees in Rome Jesuit center

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:04 AM PDT

Pope Francis waves as he leaves the Astalli Center canteen after his private visit to the Jesuit Service for Refugees organization, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Pope Francis, a Jesuit himself, visited the canteen to meet the refugees and was later scheduled to visit the nearby Chiesa del Gesu' (Church of Jesus) where Spanish Rev. Pedro Arrupe, the founder of the Jesuit Service for Refugees, is buried. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged members of religious orders on Tuesday to use empty convents and other structures to house refugees fleeing war and hardship, not as hotels.


Italian priest gifts pope his old Renault

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 10:35 AM PDT

Pope Francis next to a white Renault 4L offered by Father Don Renzo Zocca on September 7, 2013 at the VaticanPope Francis no longer has to be chauffeured in popemobiles but can drive around the Vatican himself after a 70-year-old priest gave him his old Renault 4.


Pope visits refugees at Rome center

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:55 AM PDT

Pope Francis waves as he leaves the Astalli Center canteen after his private visit to the Jesuit Service for Refugees organization, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Pope Francis, a Jesuit himself, visited the canteen to meet the refugees and was later scheduled to visit the nearby Chiesa del Gesu' (Church of Jesus) where Spanish Rev. Pedro Arrupe, the founder of the Jesuit Service for Refugees, is buried. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)ROME (AP) — The pope has welcomed refugees at center in Rome as part of his mission to extend solidarity to migrants fleeing war and hardship for Europe.


1 Klansman survives Ala church bombing cases

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:24 AM PDT

FILE -- In this May 1, 2001 file photo, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies lead Thomas Blanton Jr., out of the courtroom in handcuffs after a jury convicted him of murder in Birmingham, Ala. This week marks the 50th anniversary of a racist church bombing that killed four black girls at a Birmingham church. A bomb detonated outside Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four girls. Three Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted in the bombing years later, and Blanton, the last surviving Klansman convicted in the blast, remains in prison. A corrections spokesman says the 83-year-old Blanton seldom has contact with other inmates at St. Clair prison near Springville, and it's mostly by his own choice. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last surviving Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls 50 years ago spends nearly all his time in a one-person prison cell, apparently too wary of other inmates to venture out.


Ontario Liberal speaks out against Quebec charter to restrict religious symbols

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

TORONTO - Political debate is heating up again over Quebec's controversial "values charter" that would restrict religious clothing and symbols.

After more than 10 years of hardship, Iraqi Christian calls it quits on Iraq

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:38 AM PDT

Fatin Yousef endured the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the outbreak of fierce Sunni-Shiite fighting in 2006, and an uptick in militant attacks after US troops withdrew in December 2011.

Britons become less religious: survey

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:20 AM PDT

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is Enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral on March 21, 2013The number of Britons who are religious has declined significantly in the last 30 years and the number of adherents to the established Church of England has halved, a survey revealed on Tuesday.


Mining is no savior for El Salvador, says Catholic Church

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 05:41 AM PDT

On a rainy Sunday night at the Santa Clara de Asis church, east of San Salvador, Friar Domingo Solis addresses 70 rapt parishioners, explaining why he believes mining is impossible here.

Pope Francis bio fills gaps left by 'instant books'

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:33 AM PDT

Pope Francis attends a prayer calling for peace in Syria, in Saint Peter's square at the VaticanBy Tom Heneghan Paris (Reuters) - A wave of "instant books" about Pope Francis rushed into print after his surprise election last March left readers waiting for one that brought more insight into the two seemingly contradictory phases in his past. In "Pope Francis: Untying the Knots," British journalist Paul Vallely fills that gap by showing how the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio went from being the divisive head of the Jesuit order in Argentina in the 1970s to the humble and inclusive pastor he became once made a bishop in 1992. ...


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