Topic: - on January 26, 2004 at 1:18:00 PM CET
Would you buy a way of life from a guru?
Deepak Chopra earns $20m a year selling spiritual guidance to the likes of Demi Moore, Hillary Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev - and he's not the only self-help guru making a fortune. In the first of two extracts from his new book, Francis Wheen traces the rise and rise of mystic mumbo-jumbo.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 20, 2004 at 7:05:00 PM CET
Bischof Laun unterstützt "Heilung" vom Schwulsein
Weihbischof Andreas Laun, um den es in Salzburg ruhig geworden ist, hat es zu einer Erwähnung in der Pariser Tageszeitung "Liberation" gebracht. Es geht um Launs Unterstützung einer Gruppe, die Homosexuelle "heilen" will.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 20, 2003 at 6:55:00 PM CET
Infamous Strip Club Now a Church
What was once a house of sin will soon become a house of worship.
A nondenominational church will lease the Gold Club building and hold its first services there early next year. The infamous Atlanta strip club was shut down by the federal government after a sensational racketeering trial in 2001.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 20, 2003 at 1:26:16 PM CET
Happy Hanukkah !
The Jewish holidayof Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, begins tonight and lasts for eight days.
Hanukkah traces its origins in Jewish history to the defeat of an enemy and the reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and involves a two-fold miracle.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 6, 2003 at 12:50:56 AM CET
Oops! Vicar gives out porn films
A German vicar inadvertently supplied his parish with dozens of hard core porn films in an unsuccessful bid to teach people about the life of Christ.
Frithjof Schwesig, vicar in the southwestern town of Lampoldshausen, had ordered 300 copies of a video film portraying the life of Christ as told by the gospel according to Luke.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 4, 2003 at 6:09:28 PM CET
Bible goes mobile with pay-per-verse
IF your mobile phone rings you better answer. It might be a message from God.
A new text message service launched yesterday in Sydney allows mobile phone users to receive Bible passages direct to their handsets.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on December 4, 2003 at 4:31:28 PM CET
Kann Wasser denken?
Was wir wissen, ist ein Tropfen, was wir nicht wissen, ist ein Ozean. Isaac Newton
Wenn nüchterne Menschen den Wasserhahn aufdrehen, fließt aus der Leitung ein simpler Stoff, das häufigste Molekül auf diesem Planeten – eben ganz gewöhnliches Wasser. Für andere jedoch kommt dieser banale Akt der Befreiung eines gequälten Lebewesens gleich.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 29, 2003 at 11:22:38 AM CET
Pope meets Dalai Lama, very quietly
Pope John Paul met the Dalai Lama on Thursday but the Vatican, which has very thorny relations with China, gave the visit a low profile. The name of the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet did not appear on the list of people received by the Pope in the Vatican's daily bulletin.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 28, 2003 at 10:51:52 AM CET
China sends Bible owners to labor camp
Owners of Bibles are the target of a crackdown on "illegal religious organizations" by police in southern China's Guangxi province.
Up to 40 policemen descended on the homes of Christians in villages in Xilin county in the middle of the night, ransacking them in search of Bibles and other religious materials, according to written testimony supplied to Agence France-Presse.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 26, 2003 at 1:10:27 PM CET
Evolution at its best
Ku Klux Klan shoots itself in the head
The Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacy group notorious for its lynchings of black people and those who favoured desegregation, has scored a spectacular own goal. One of its members has been critically injured after being struck by a bullet fired into the air during a Klan initiation ceremony.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 25, 2003 at 2:06:49 PM CET
Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians
Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades - but is still in perfect health.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on October 12, 2003 at 11:24:19 AM CEST
Papst glaubt an kleine Löcher in Kondomen
Der Vatikan torpediert die weltweiten Bemühungen, die Seuche Aids einzudämmen. In Ländern mit hoher Aids-Rate propagiert der "Heilige Stuhl", Kondome nicht zu benutzen. Begründung: Die Gummis hätten kleine Löcher.
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