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This is Leicestershire
Child rapist's jail term appeal fails
This is Leicestershire
The man claimed he had black magic powers and told the children, who were as young as 10, that if they did not submit to "religious massage", evil spirits would remain in their bodies and their mothers would die. ​ Courtsgeneric. The man was jailed at ...

Bemidji Pioneer
UMD graduates first Master of Tribal Administration and Governance class
Bemidji Pioneer
He's one of 22 graduates in UMD's Master of Tribal Administration and Governance program, the first of its kind in the nation. The graduates received their degrees on Thursday. "It's a 12-hour drive for me. We had class Friday night at 6. I'd leave ...

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The Inter-Mountain
Albert Wilfong
The Inter-Mountain
He was also a longtime member of the West Virginia Cattlemens, West Virginia Shepherds Federation and National Wild Turkey Federation. He has ... Burial will follow in Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery on Wesley Chapel Road. Viewing ...

The Decatur Daily
Tornado damages downtown Athens
The Decatur Daily
Afterward, they went outside to find two large trees uprooted, the barn roof demolished, a rocking chair blown off the front porch, the chain-link dog kennel in the backyard blown apart and their two Australian Shepherds, George and Lucy, running free ...

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NDTV
The Dark Lonely Road
THISDAY Live
The reason it has been difficult for most Nigerian leaders to perform is their obsession with wanting to over-pamper a tiny cult of politicians at the total expense of the majority. The President must resist the temptation of pandering to the whims and ...
Jonathan declares emergency rule in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa - GuardianThe Guardian Nigeria
Nigeria: The war within - Nigerian TribuneNigerian Tribune

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Spiritual healing centre would be 'an antidote to TOWIE'
This is Total Essex
Jacqui Cullen thinks Essex has become too image obsessed. She told the Gazette: "We are not a cult, we're not a religion – we are just a group of people who live spiritual and good lives. "People are very image conscious and the TV and media don't help.

The Guardian
Simon Hoggart's week: when a pub lunch becomes a flag day
The Guardian
And it's a kind of atheist/agnostic version of a religious thriller: a modern day academic discovers a non-believing Tudor sect who were wiped out viciously by the church. The old cult gains a new following, which enrages several established religions ...

Why We Need Rituals in Our Lives
Huffington Post (blog)
Others believe that in order to gain access to the ways and means of vital ceremonial participation, it is essential to join an established religious organization -- a church, a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, a tribe, a coven, a circle, a sect or a ...

Food Stamp Cuts Spark Bible Debate - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
While religious leaders in the U.S. have thrown their weight behind food stamps and government assistance programs, Pope Francis also spoke more broadly Thursday on his views on "cult of money" in his first address at the Vatican global finance.

AMERICAblog (blog)
Horrific video of 1000s of (former Soviet) Georgians rioting against gays
AMERICAblog (blog)
During the Second World War Stalin re legitimized the Russian and other Orthodox cults in exchange for their support in the war against the Nazis. ... If that was the case why would members of these religions pass legislation for same-sex marriage ...

Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over appeal among evangelicals
Religion News Service
(RNS) Growing up Roman Catholic in Newfoundland, Matt Maher never imagined that his childhood interest in music would lead to a career as a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Christian rocker — let alone a crossover artist featured on Christian radio and ...

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Republica
The progressive mind
Republica
Your party, alongside some Madhesi leaders with feudalistic base, is promoting ethnicity-based federalism. This has to be an advocacy for incongruous cults. Ethnic federalism is just another form of cult culture, but a sure recipe for division ...

Buddhism won't be harmed by ex-drag queen
The Nation
There have been sects or cults that preach that, the greater your religious donations - meaning money - the greater your chance of going to "Heaven". True students of Buddhism know within their hearts, however, that such teaching is not the religion's ...

Buddhism won't be harmed by ex-drag queen
The Nation
Buddhism has not been free from exploitation. There have been sects or cults that preach that, the greater your religious donations - meaning money - the greater your chance of going to "Heaven". True students of Buddhism know within their hearts ...

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
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New Church of Scientology Portland: First Day of Service Rounds off Grand ...Watch List News (press release)
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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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