Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 6, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CET
Festival of Colours
Girls throw coloured powder on each other as they celebrate the festival of Holi in New Delhi. Holi, the festival of colours, signals the onset of spring. Although it is a Hindu ritual, the festival is celebrated across India.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 4, 2007 at 4:15:00 PM CET
Taiwanese set off 8.1-mile firecracker
Organizers lit up a 8.1-mile string of explosives in a southern Taiwanese county Sunday, hoping to create the world's longest firecracker in a record-setting attempt expected to last two hours.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 21, 2007 at 12:34:00 PM CET
Female Pakistani minister shot dead for 'breaking Islamic dress code'
A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.
Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens of party activists, by a “fanatic”, who believed that she was dressed inappropriately and that women should not be involved in politics, officials said.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 20, 2007 at 3:58:00 PM CET
Pastor with 666 tattoo claims to be divine
The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm.
But Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or "Daddy" as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God.
"The spirit that is in me is the same spirit that was in Jesus of Nazareth," de Jesus says.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 20, 2007 at 2:32:00 PM CET
Naked buttocks can predict future, claims a blind German psychic
Naked buttocks can predict future, claims a blind German psychic. He says he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's buttocks have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 15, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CET
California Pastor Stole the Whole Church
For nearly a decade, members of Ripon's First Congregational Church bared their souls to Pastor Randall Radic. But clearly it didn't work both ways. There were certain things he wasn't telling them.
That became obvious a year ago, when Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them. He used the money to buy himself a brand-new black BMW and a laptop -- exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his double life as a sinner.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 12, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CET
Karma Calculator - Are You a Good Person?
Ever wonder, “Am I a good person?” Thanks to Intelligent Giving, a small London-based nonprofit company, you can now measure your karma by using the Karma Calculator.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 4, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CET
How many has God killed? (Complete list and estimated total)
In a previous post, I've listed and counted God's killings in the Bible. But I only included those that said exactly how many were killed by God. I came up with 2,270,365.
But that didn't include some of God's most impressive slaughters. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? The Bible doesn't say, so there's no way to know for sure. But it's possible to provide rough estimates in order to get a grand total, and that's what I'm attempting here. (New total: 32.9 million.)
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 3, 2007 at 3:51:00 PM CET
My wife smokes -- I want an annulment
Smoke got in his eyes. Too much of it, so he asked the Roman Catholic Church to annul his marriage when his wife refused to kick the nicotine habit.
That is just one of the, well, hazy cases that wound up before the Vatican's Sacra Romana Rota, a top court which hears the most complicated of marriage annulment requests.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 28, 2007 at 4:25:00 PM CET
China bans Year of the Pig ads to 'show respect to Muslims'
When the Lunar Year of the Pig is fast approaching, China's largest state-owned CCTV recently received an order from the government that prohibits airing of any TV ads that contains images of the pig. This is a measures aims to avoid offending the Muslims in China, in order to "protect the harmony between different religions and ethnic groups".
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 22, 2007 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Uri Geller accused of TV trickery
A hit Israeli TV show starring celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller has come under fire from magicians for being full of "tricks and stunts".
The self-proclaimed paranormalist is looking for others with his "powers" on Uri Geller Looks for a Successor.
But Israeli magician Eliron Toby said the show "damaged" those who wanted to believe in Geller and Dandi Asraf said there were "no supernatural powers".
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 19, 2007 at 4:39:00 PM CET
Millions of Hindus take holy bath
At least 18 million people have bathed so far in the river Ganges in northern India on the main day of the Ardh Kumbh mela, festival organisers say.
Thousands of Hindu holy men began the plunge near the town of Allahabad at dawn. Crowds are still arriving and bathing will continue into the night.
bbc.co.uk A day at the Ardh Kumbh festival Kumbh Mela [Wikipedia] Kumbh Mela DE [Wikipedia]When sins get washed awayMillions expected at Ardh Kumbh mela [Video]Millions take holy dip in the Ganges
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