2013年4月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Pa. judge defends church aide's trial, conviction

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:21 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge is defending her decisions in the trial of the first Catholic Church official in the United States to be charged and convicted in the cover-up of the priest abuse scandal.

Argentina's 'Grandmothers' seek pope's assistance

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 02:20 PM PDT

Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist Buscarita Roa, of Chile, shows a scarf with the symbol of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo association, in St. Peter's Square after meeting Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday April 24, 2013. Representatives from "Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo," an activist group that searches for people missing from Argentina's "dirty war," attended Pope Francis' general audience and said they will ask him to open the church files on the country's wartime era. The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina during the start of the 1976-82 dictatorship that kidnapped and killed thousands of people to eliminate leftist opponents. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Members of the Argentine human rights group "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo" asked Pope Francis on Wednesday for help finding still-missing children taken from political prisoners during the country's 1976-83 military dictatorship — and said the pontiff told them they could count on him.

Israeli president to meet new pope next week

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 07:56 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli president's office says President Shimon Peres will meet the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week.

Syrian church: 2 abducted priests still missing

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:55 AM PDT

In this undated combo picture released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church, left, and John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, right, who were kidnapped Monday, in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. the fate of two priests who were kidnapped Monday in the northern province of Aleppo is still unknown. It was not immediately clear who abducted Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, said Greek Orthodox Bishop Tony Yazigi. He said the two bishops were abducted from the village of Kfar Deal, and their driver was killed by the gunmen. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — The whereabouts of two bishops kidnapped in northern Syria remain unknown, Syrian church officials said Wednesday, a day after telling reporters that they had been released.

Kidnapped Syrian bishops still missing: church sources

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 01:38 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two Syrian bishops kidnapped by gunmen on Monday are still missing, church sources in Damascus and Aleppo said on Wednesday, contradicting a report that the men had been freed. A source at the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo said the bishops had not been released and he was unaware of any contact with their abductors. At the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus, a source also said there was no indication they had been freed. ...

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