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Farrakhan tells city council black Detroiters should buy, rebuild city
Detroit Free Press
“You're the shepherds not of your flock but of God's flock. Why shouldn't we ... He spoke Thursday at New Destiny Christian Fellowship Church in Detroit and was to speak Friday night at Fellowship Chapel, the Detroit church led by the Rev. Wendell ...

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Birmingham Mail
Scientology church to create new base at historic Birmingham mansion
expressandstar.com
Welcoming the council decision today, Church of Scientology UK spokesman Graeme Wilson said: “It has taken over two years for the project team to prepare and consult on our plans to restore and use the building and we are pleased we can now move ...
Scientology HQ of 'corrupt, sinister and dangerous cult' given green lightBirmingham Mail
Birmingham Scientology HQ Recommended For Approval4ni.co.uk
New Church of Scientology Portland: First Day of Service Rounds off Grand ...Watch List News (press release)
Portland Business Journal (blog)
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Manila Standard Today
A bad attitude
Manila Standard Today
Many candidates highly favored by these voters because of their reform platforms, such as Teddy Casiño, Risa Hontiveros, or Ed Hagedorn, failed to make it to the Magic Twelve, which must have disappointed them so. Perhaps, too, we may also consider the ...

Mulatu Astatke On The Strange World Of Mulatu Astatke
The Quietus
... make jazz with an Ethiopian twist. Although the twelve tone diminished scales were introduced to jazz by the likes of Charlie Parker for improvising, Astatke points out that Derashe tribes in southern Ethiopia had been playing these scales years ...

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Celebrity Dirty Laundry
John Travolta Poisons Kelly Preston's New TV Show – “Keep Calm and Karey ...
Celebrity Dirty Laundry
The series creator, Andrea Abbate is also a Scientologist and so John stormed in disrupting everything to give her a huge hug. His intrusion went from a quick visit to a total disruption and the cast and crew were furious. Apparently they felt like ...

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10 ridiculous Christian Right prophesies
Salon
Back in 2004, one of Bush's Christian right hires to the FDA, Janet Woodcock, warned that making Plan B available without a prescription could cause the drug to take on “an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults ...

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Faith Calendar
The Augusta Chronicle
Twelve Tribes of Israel program 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18; missionary anniversary 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9, the Rev. Haywood Dock. RUNS MISSIONARY BAPTIST: Parade of Hats 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18, Michelle Bush. FLOWING WELLS WORSHIP CENTER: ...

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OneNewsNow
Feds sue employer for job-related Scientology requirements - OneNewsNow.com
OneNewsNow
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking action against a Florida-based firm for unusual practices related to Scientology. The EEOC filed suit last week against Dynamic Medical Services, Inc., for requiring its employees to spend at ...

Facilities Work Increases for Summer
Georgetown University The Hoya
The center will also provide Georgetown programs with more flexibility, as the retreats will now take place at a Georgetown-owned location rather than the Shepherd's Spring Outdoor Ministry Center in Sharpsburg, Md., where ESCAPE currently take place ...

This Is Sussex
Crowborough musician keen for hometown support in song contest
This Is Sussex
Natalie Sexton, who lives in Hillrise, is in the running for a career-enhancing spot to take the stage before Gabriella Aplin at her show at the 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. ​. vote for me: Singer Natalie Sexton who is in a competition to ...

Scots And Jews: Braveheart, Meet Ben Yair
Arutz Sheva
Judah was one of Jacob's twelve sons, for whom the tribes were named. And, as we saw earlier in the writings of the Roman historians themselves, on Roman coins, and so forth, Judea (Iudaea, Judaea) was the Roman name for the land of the people of ...

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Les Misérables, Side By Side and Van Veeteren Vol.1
Metro
... can't do without his sage advice and intuition when faced with cases such as the beheadings in Borkmann's Point, the political machinations in Münster's Case (published in Britain as The Unlucky Lottery) and a religious cult's infuriating ...

WND.com
Teachers to vote on making everything LBGTTQ friendly - WND
WND.com
Jones led a cult to the “Peoples Temple Agricultural Project” in the 1970s in Guyana after an extended career leading the religious organization in San Francisco. The cult became notorious when on Nov. 18, 1978, 918 people died – mostly from cyanide ...

Cosmic evil and terrorism - RenewAmerica
RenewAmerica
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a leading spirit of the Committee of Public Safety that supervised the terror. The Committee lasted less than a .... Saddam was the Iraqi fuehrer complete with a public cult of personality. Now that we have ...

Community Notes
Greene County Daily World
If decorating with a shepherd's hook please place it to the side of the stone for mowing purposes. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Any questions call 798-7023. .... Have you wanted to read the entire Bible but get discouraged or don't ...

Minnesota Public Radio
UMD graduates first cohort of tribal management program
Minnesota Public Radio
Brown Bull, who lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, works for his tribe's education agency. He's one of 22 graduates in UMD's Master of Tribal Administration and Governance program, the first of its kind in the nation. "It's a 12-hour drive for me.

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Christian Post
Pope Francis Blasts Free Market System, Urges Rich to Help the Poor
Christian Post
Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural mass on Tuesday among political and religious leaders from around the world and amid a wave of hope for a renewal of the scandal-plagued Roman Catholic Church. By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter. May 16 ...
Catholic saints are marching into Latin AmericaAlaska Dispatch

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NPR
'Re-Emerging': In Nigeria, A People Finds A Faith
NPR
If you believe religions are made, not born, it may not come as much of a surprise that Shmuel, a handsome, sweet-faced young Nigerian, considers himself Jewish. Shmuel, the charming, yarmulke-wearing Exhibit A in Jeff L. Lieberman's documentary, Re ...

Movie review: 'Source Family' traces the half-life of a '70s cult
Salt Lake Tribune
Those working the restaurant were all followers of Father Yod, a larger-than-life spiritual leader who taught a mishmash of religious beliefs and fronted his own rock band (whose music makes up the film's soundtrack). But Yod's beliefs — which include ...

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End times for doomsday-linked radio network?
CNN (blog)
My aunt gave away her money to a cult in Hawaii that promised her a seat next to Jesus when the world was supposed to end last December. My aunt tried to ... The problem is that these transparent scams are protected under the guise of "religious freedom".

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