Religion
Egypt top cleric: Protests against Morsi permitted
Egypt's top Muslim cleric declared Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, in a snub to hard-line Islamist backers of Mohammed Morsi who declared that those behind opposition protests planned for June 30 are heretics. In a statement, Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar mosque, ...
Fort Wayne priest removed after sex abuse charge
A bishop has removed a Roman Catholic priest from public ministry after a "credible allegation" of sexual abuse while the priest served in Africa about 20 years ago. The Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese said Wednesday that Bishop Kevin Rhodes took the action against the Rev. Cornelius Ryan after being notified ...
Accused priest too sick for trial, lawyer says
An attorney says a terminally ill Catholic priest is so sick and incapacitated his upcoming trial on sodomy charges would be a "mockery." The Rev. James Schook is scheduled for trial Monday in Louisville on seven counts, but prosecutors acknowledged that it would likely be postponed. He is accused of ...
Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for hardline sermon
Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives. After facing accusations that it has been lax in enforcing the law, Tunisia's moderate Islamist ruling ...
Monsoon floods kill 102 in India, strand pilgrims
India's prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke on his return from an aerial survey of the area, pegging the death toll at 102. "It is feared ...
Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction
She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, "Fatal Attraction for Cable News." Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT, "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned ...
Foes fight moving plans for 15-foot Mary statue
A church's plan for moving a 15-foot-tall marble Virgin Mary statue from its spot along a northwestern Indiana highway after nearly six decades has opponents threatening a court fight. St. John the Evangelist Catholic parish leaders want to move the marble statue from U.S. 41 in the Lake County town ...
'Man of Steel' promoted from the pulpit
Seems Warner Bros. has taken movie marketing to a whole new level — even higher than a bird or a plane. The studio enlisted Christian-focused firm Grace Hill Media to promote "Man of Steel" to faith-based groups by inviting them to early screenings and creating trailers that highlight the film's ...
Myanmar court convicts 2 Muslims over violence
A court in Myanmar has found two Muslim women guilty of sparking a recent outbreak of sectarian violence, one of them by bumping into a Buddhist novice monk. Myint Thein of the pro-government National Unity Party, who attended their trial, said Wednesday the two women in the central township of ...
Religion news in brief
Venezuela's cardinal says pope should pressure Nicolas Maduro focus on democracy, coexistence CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said. Cardinal ...
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