<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Religion News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&amp;catid=289</link><description>News Feed for - Religion</description><item><title>India probe blames mosque attack on Hindu leaders</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96391326&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T13:11:00</pubDate><description>NEW DELHI -- A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians - including a former prime minister - in the 1992 demolition of a mosque that sparked </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>The Tories are the party of greed, Labour the party of lust ?? maybe Philip Blond's </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96394188&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T13:15:00</pubDate><description>??The state has bailed out the banking system but has proved incapable of saving its own citizens from debt and servitude,? he will say. ??Moreover the state has arrested social mobility and destroyed </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>At mosque, unwanted attention</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96387317&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T11:13:00</pubDate><description>The Fort Hood shootings have brought unwelcome attention to the band of a few dozen Muslim worshipers, many with military connections, who prayed alongside the suspect, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, at the only </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Iran shuts newspaper for Baha'i photo: media</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96373434&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T07:15:00</pubDate><description>At the same time, the publishers of another daily, Khabar, linked to a conservative rival of Ahmadinejad, have decided to stop publication due to unspecified pressure, the Etemad newspaper said. Etemad </description><source>Reuters Canada</source></item><item><title>NI priest held over abuse claims</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96265464&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:52:00</pubDate><description>A Catholic priest from Co Antrim has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s, police revealed today. The curate has already been asked to stand down from </description><source>Irish Times</source></item><item><title>Archbishop Vincent Nichols ??offered flowers at the altar of Hindu deities??</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96394201&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T13:15:00</pubDate><description>By Damian Thompson 9 Comments Archbishop Nichols at the temple (Photo: Mazur/catholicchurch.org) Archbishop Nichols, what were you thinking? Your own press office has reported that . (UPDATE: since this </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Kennedy case spotlights politics, religion</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96406362&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:41:00</pubDate><description>Kennedy asked to skip Communion STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rep. Patrick Kennedy's support for abortion rights brings criticism from church Bishop tells Kennedy not to take communion The issue is considered much </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Why do some Catholics self-flagellate?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96394883&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T12:39:00</pubDate><description>WHO, WHAT, WHY? The Magazine answers... The late Pope John Paul II would whip himself, according to a nun who helped to look after him. So how common is this practice in the Catholic faith? 'We would </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Tenn. man gets 14 years for burning mosque</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96331284&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:23:00</pubDate><description>A 24-year-old Tennessee man was sentenced today to more than 14 years in federal prison for burning down a mosque. Michael Golden and two other men pleaded guilty to firebombing the Islamic Center of </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>Muslim pilgrims converge in Saudi city for hajj</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96401285&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:01:00</pubDate><description>MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly </description><source>AFP via Yahoo!</source></item><item><title>Jewish athlete gets her record restored</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96329093&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T13:11:00</pubDate><description>Bergmann was Jewish. She would miss that years Berlin Olympics. There was no way the Nazis would allow a Jew to compete and possibly win. Now comes news that Germanys track and field association restored </description><source>Times Live South Africa</source></item><item><title>What do scientists think about religion?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96377839&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T08:13:00</pubDate><description>Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States accept Darwinian evolution </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>Buddhist wedding in Zhejiang</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96369025&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:08:00</pubDate><description>Thirty newlywed couples held their wedding ceremony in Yichan Temple, a traditional Buddhist temple, in Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province on November 21, 2009.</description><source>SINA</source></item><item><title>Religion, evolution can live side by side</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96368714&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:06:00</pubDate><description>Shermer wonders why so many Americans don't accept the theory of evolution He comes up with six reasons why not, including misunderstanding and fear But he says, divine creation cries out for praise regardless </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Baptist Leader: Obama 'Very Dangerous'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96178479&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:30:00</pubDate><description>One of the leaders of the nation's influential Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) tells Newsmax that President Obama is 'very dangerous' in his economic policies and his foreign policy is causing 'severe </description><source>NewsMax.com</source></item><item><title>Kennedy abortion debate puts politics, religion back in spotlight</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96361365&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:20:00</pubDate><description>Rep. Patrick Kennedy is in trouble with the Catholic Church over his support of abortion rights. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rep. Patrick Kennedy's support for abortion rights brings criticism from church Bishop </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Archdiocese questions future of 14 D.C., Md. schools</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96361121&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:17:00</pubDate><description>Pastors at 14 churches in the Washington Archdiocese have warned that their schools could close or be reconfigured if enrollments continue to decline. The schools are split evenly between the District </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Abortion, politics volatile mix for U.S. Catholics</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96359502&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:05:00</pubDate><description>A dispute over abortion between the only remaining Kennedy in Congress and his Roman Catholic bishop has highlighted the political volatility of the issue and the challenge it presents to the nation's </description><source>CNN</source></item><item><title>Lawmaker defends RI Rep Kennedy in Communion flap</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96357170&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:20:00</pubDate><description>PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Pennsylvania lawmaker defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy on Monday against a bishop who has acknowledged asking the Rhode Island congressman not to receive Holy Communion because of his </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Israelis Positive on Tarantino Jewish Revenge Movie</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96402859&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:13:00</pubDate><description>JERUSALEM, Israel ?? Quentin Tarantino??s 'Inglourious Basterds' is the definitive Israeli movie. The bloodthirsty revenge fantasy of Jewish soldiers crushing German skulls with baseball bats and scalping </description><source>GlobalPost</source></item><item><title>Haneyya meets with British and US priests in Gaza</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96402423&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:10:00</pubDate><description>Server Error in '/' Application. Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please </description><source>Palestine Information Center</source></item><item><title>Jewish settlements may be brought to a halt</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96370251&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:24:00</pubDate><description>Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is hoping to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by convincing his cabinet to freeze West Bank settlement construction for ten months. Israeli </description><source>Argentina Star</source></item><item><title>Southern Baptist President Has Prostate Cancer</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96349935&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T15:12:00</pubDate><description>NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt announced Monday that he has prostate cancer and expects to have surgery in January. The 57-year-old Hunt, pastor of the Atlanta-area </description><source>WSMV</source></item><item><title>2 Senate hopefuls criticize R.I. bishop, defend Kennedy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96382018&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T14:52:00</pubDate><description>It seems to me a little bit ironic that a church that was willing to overlook the victimization of many, many children over several years is now turning around and saying to people who are good Christians, </description><source>Boston Globe</source></item><item><title>Church at loss as GFC delivers judgment</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96398915&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=289</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T13:16:00</pubDate><description>The investment arm of the Church of England's Sydney diocese, the Glebe Administration Board, has posted a $160 million loss for the year ending December 2008. In Britain, the Church of England's pension </description><source>The Age</source></item></channel></rss>