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Blow for bishop as orgasm church flops

Sweden’s highest court has refused to hear a last-ditch plea by the Madonna of the Orgasm church to be recognized. The church, in Lövestad in southern Sweden, has been fighting a lengthy battle to be registered as a faith community in Sweden, but Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) said there were no grounds to...
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Cross Found In Potato Chip

Cross Found In Potato Chip

Woman Hopes Unique Chip Inspires Others’ Faith A Bakersfield woman is claiming divine intervention after she said she found a cross seared into a potato chip, Bakersfield TV station KERO reported. Amanda Biezad was about to eat the Lay’s potato chip when she discovered the cross. turnto23.com
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Pastor willing to die fighting ‘Demon’ mascot

Pastor willing to die fighting ‘Demon’ mascot

A pastor arrested Monday for protesting Warner Robins High School’s “Demon” nickname and mascot says he was just standing up for Jesus — and he’d do it again. Pastor Donald Crosby said the school’s demon logo just encourages children to evil. “I don’t scare easily. Lock me up as many times as you have...
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Christians claim that preventing them from discriminating against gays is discrimination against them

A proposed ordinance in Memphis, Tenn., that would ban discrimination against gays is causing outrage among some local critics who say the ordinance itself would be discriminatory — against people who oppose homosexuality because of their religious beliefs. “It’s going to discriminate against people of faith who are Christians in their worldview, and I...
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Muslims in Indonesian told to change prayer direction…no wonder their prayers have gone unanswered

Muslims in Indonesian told to change prayer direction…no wonder their prayers have gone unanswered

Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued...
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Ordaining women considered the same as molesting children

Ordaining women considered the same as molesting children

The Vatican today made the “attempted ordination” of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism. The new rules, which have been sent to bishops around the world, apply equally to Catholic women who agree to a ceremony...
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Pasties for Jesus

Pasties for Jesus

Baylor University graduates Brett and Emily Mills of Waco spend their days, and many nights, reminding the city’s 40 or so exotic dancers that Jesus loves strippers. The couple’s “Jesus Loves Strippers” ministry reaches out to individuals they believe the church inadvertently casts away. Every month, the couple and about a half-dozen volunteers hit...
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Fatwa issued on vuvuzela

Fatwa issued on vuvuzela

Three weeks ago, most people had never heard of the vuvuzela. Now, many wish they never had. For players and fans alike, the plastic trumpet, whose drone has been likened to a swarm of bees, has become the unmistakable background sound to South Africa’s World Cup. But now, just days before Holland and Spain...
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Priest stole $1M for male escorts…at least they where of legal age

Priest stole $1M for male escorts…at least they where of legal age

The Rev. Kevin J. Gray was a popular priest who appeared to live humbly, forgoing a car and walking to Mass from another parish where he lived so that a Catholic charity could use his space at the rectory. Parishioners thought he had cancer and admired how he helped immigrants in his largely poor...
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Inspire, a magazine for aspiring terrorists…lifetime subscriptions available at a discount

Inspire, a magazine for aspiring terrorists…lifetime subscriptions available at a discount

Like many new publications it has a vivid mix: news, features, celebrity opinion pieces and a smart digital-era commitment to interactivity – keeping in close touch with the readers. But for the casual browser of the internet, al-Qaida’s new English-language online magazine may prove a step or two beyond the pale. Entitled Inspire, and...
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