2013年8月28日星期三

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


More than 100 churches, sites to ring bells for MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech around the world

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:40 AM PDT

WASHINGTON - The final refrain of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speech will echo around the world as bells from churches, schools and historical monuments "let freedom ring" in celebration of a powerful moment in civil rights history.

'Everything but the pews' stolen from Mass. church

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 06:28 AM PDT

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A longtime member of a Massachusetts church says thieves have ransacked the house of worship, taking "everything but the pews."

Pope phones Argentine woman who wrote to him about rape

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 06:25 AM PDT

Pope Francis waves as he arrives for a private visit at the Saint Agostino church in RomeVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has phoned an Argentine woman to comfort her and tell her she is not alone after she wrote a letter to him saying she was raped by a policeman. Francis has brought an informal, friendly style to the papacy since his election in March, including a habit of telephoning people who write to him with personal stories that catch his attention. ...


Aaron Paul, Ben Kingsley may join Christian Bale in Ridley Scott's Moses movie 'Exodus'

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 06:08 PM PDT

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ridley Scott continues to build the supporting cast of his Moses movie "Exodus," as Aaron Paul and Ben Kingsley are in negotiations to join Christian Bale and new cast members Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro, an individual familiar with 20th Century Fox project has told TheWrap. Bale stars as Moses, while Joel Edgerton co-stars as the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. The Egyptian ruler's parents, Seti and Tuya, will be played by Turturro and Weaver, who famously worked with Scott on "Alien. ...
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