http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/ Religious and Spiritual News en leonid@spirithit.com admin@spirithit.com Copyright © 2005 SpiritHit.com hourly 2 2005-06-06T14:19:00-05:00 http://news.spirithit.com/images/rss/spirithit.gif http://news.spirithit.com/ 137 24 Unimpressed by Newsweek's retraction of explosive claims that U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran, radical Islamic leaders in Pakistan say they will not… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/newsweek_retraction_wont_stop_planned_protests/ 2005-05-17T15:17:00-05:00 Nine more people have been killed in Afghanistan, clerics are threatening a holy war, and Islamic leaders are urging worldwide Muslim protests in response to a Newsweek report claiming that U.S.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/newsweek_backtracks_as_anger_spreads_over_koran_claim/ 2005-05-16T12:48:00-05:00 Jerusalem -- The Holy Fire has descended on the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. It miraculously lit, as it does every Holy Saturday, in the tomb chamber, where the Body of the Savior was put… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/holy_fire_descends_on_holy_sepulcher/ 2005-04-30T07:42:00-05:00 Occupied Jerusalem -- Palestinians stood up Monday, June 6, to attempts by extremist Jews, backed by Israeli police, to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark Israel's occupation of Arab… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/police_backed_jewish_extremists_try_to_storm_al_aqsa/ 2005-06-06T14:19:00-05:00 Bibles found in the possession of visitors to Saudi Arabia are routinely confiscated by customs officials, and in some cases copies allegedly have been put through a paper shredder, according to… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/saudis_shred_bibles_rights_campaigners_claim/ 2005-05-19T16:19:01-05:00 Jerusalem -- Anglican, Lutheran and Roman Catholic leaders have offered to mediate in a scandal that has seen the Greek Orthodox Patriarch for the Holy Land Irineos I deposed by his own… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/church_leaders_ready_to_mediate_in_jerusalem/ 2005-05-10T14:41:01-05:00 Jerusalem -- Thousands of Palestinians gathered in and outside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) after extremist Jews threatened to storm Islam’s… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/palestinians_shield_al_aqsa/ 2005-05-09T17:25:01-05:00 Sanaa, Yemen -- The Yemeni government has put thousands of religious schools between a rock and a hard place by demanding schools to either close doors or come under its full supervision.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/yemen_to_close_more_religious_schools/ 2005-04-27T18:00:00-05:00 Jerusalem -- Israel has welcomed the election of Pope Benedict XVI despite his past association with a Nazi party youth group. Israel says it hopes that Pope Benedict will follow in the… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/israel_praises_election_of_pope_benedict_xvi/ 2005-04-20T18:37:00-05:00 Cairo, Egypt -- An international Islamic conference opened in Cairo Sunday, April 17, with a focus on the universality of Islam as a bridge to the gulf with the other. Egyptian Awqaf (religious… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/cairo_conference_reinforces_universality_of_islam/ 2005-04-18T16:31:00-05:00