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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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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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'Test', Chris Mason Johnson's Dance Film, Tackles HIV/AIDS (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
No list of Pride movies would be complete without an entry from transgressive cult director, John Waters. The 1972 theatrical trailer for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089" target="_hplink">'Pink Flamingos,'</a> perhaps his best-known film ...

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The Guardian
Close up: It's all kicking off at Cannes
The Guardian
... demand here. The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun. An award-winning film about a millionaire who wants to establish a Russian Orthodox religious order in his castle. Watch it on demand here. The Punk Syndrome: watch the film on demand. An upbeat ...
The romanticThe Border Mail

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Religious Freedom Today-Emperor Constantine's Edict of Milan: 1700 years later
Order of St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
1700 years have passed since 313 when, through the Milan Edict of Toleration, Emperor Constantine granted freedom of conscience and freedom of worship to all cults, thus putting an end to centuries of persecution against Christians in the Roman Empire.

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