Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 15, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Vatican Official Declares Extraterrestrial Contact Is Real
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a theologian member of the Vatican Curia (governing body), and an insider close to the Pope, has gone on Italian national television five times, including recent months, to proclaim that extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. Balducci provided an analysis of extraterrestrials that he feels is consistent with the Catholic Church's understanding of theology. Monsignor Balducci emphasizes that extraterrestrial encounters "are NOT demonic, they are NOT due to psychological impairment, they are NOT a case of entity attachment, but these encounters deserve to be studied carefully."
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 11, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CET
False priest arrested for selling Pope tickets
Erivandro Ferrer de Lima had charged believers 175 reais ($81.78) in cash and another 375 reais in installments for the possibility of "getting close and touching" the Pope, Police Inspector Rosicleide de Castro said by telephone from Fortaleza in the northeastern Ceara state.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 11, 2006 at 3:40:00 PM CET
'Drunken' bishop faces battle to save his job
The Bishop of Southwark is facing a battle to keep his job after he was apparently found in a tired and emotional state in the back of a stranger's car after a Christmas party.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 4, 2006 at 3:43:00 PM CET
No Santa please, we're Czechs
The freedom-loving Czechs are again rebelling against an imperialist tyrant, although the oppressor this time is not the Kremlin but the world's favourite jolly fat man.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 25, 2006 at 1:22:00 PM CET
Ten Lies We Believe
The System is not maintained by reason and facts, because these do not support any system based on power and fear. It keeps going by perpetuating myths. These are never really questioned, and become as immutable as the laws of physics. We can break free from the control of the system when we see the lies for what they are.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 24, 2006 at 2:32:00 PM CET
Swedes Trust IKEA More than the Church
What do Volvo, Ericsson, Saab and IKEA have in common? The people of Sweden have more faith in them than in the church. Perhaps the news shouldn't come as much of a surprise, coming as it does from a country best known for its meatballs and the bright blue and yellow warehouses selling cheap and cheerful furniture around the globe. Still, preacher men the world over must be reeling. A new poll taken of Swedes indicates that more people trust IKEA than the church in the largely Protestant country.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 16, 2006 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Our daily bread
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 23, 2004 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
Gender error could stop marrying 100 times
An Indian man who has vowed to marry 100 times in his life, has found he's on the electoral roll as a female.
Udayanath Dakhina Ray has married 90 times so far and is now appealing to authorities in Orissa to correct their error.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 22, 2004 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Holy man on journey travels by rolling on the ground
Indian holy man Mohan Das, who's known as the Rolling Saint, had wanted to roll into Pakistan to promote peace. But he was stopped at the border because he doesn't have a passport.
The 55-year-old mystic travels up to eight miles a day by rolling along the ground. He began his current 1,500 mile roll in January.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 11, 2004 at 2:19:00 PM CEST
Loch Ness-like monster now fair game
Sweden's Great Lake Monster, the mythical inhabitant of Storsjon lake, will soon be fair game for hunters and curio seekers as its protected status is about to be lifted, local authorities said Wednesday.
Named after the stretch of water it inhabits ("Storsjon" means Great Lake), the monster is Sweden's answer to Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, Norway's "Selma" and Argentina's "Nahuelito."
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 5, 2004 at 2:10:00 PM CEST
Mysterious People
Strange powers, occult personalities, poltergeist girls, feral children, eccentrics . . .
Mysterious People is devoted to the lives of mysterious, strange and unusual people. It consists of a series of biographical articles, with sources and further reading listed at the end of each piece. Web sites containing material on the characters and related subjects can be found listed in the Links section. There is also a full Bibliography - frequently updated, which lists specific books / articles about the characters on the site, and also more general books related the subject of strange and unusual people. This has my own brief comments on each book and links to get hold of many of the books listed.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 2, 2004 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
Sri Lanka drought ends after seeking divine help
Sri Lanka's prolonged drought ended with heavy rains -- shortly after the sprinkling of Buddhist holy water over drought-stricken regions, residents said.
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