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Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence |
 ... should cease any form of media support or financial aid, as well as provision of both arms and men. Thus these actions will help stop the killing of Iraqi children and women, as well as stop bombing churches and mosques.
Although the Green Zone, where the conference was held, was heavily fortified and the nearby streets that lead to the Foreign Ministry were shut down, two mortar rounds landed nearby. No one was injured... |
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AIDS to Spread Faster with Catholic Condom Ban |
 ...Latin America is at danger of having the epidemic of AIDS due to the current policy of Roman Catholic Church that discourages the use of condoms, UN officials reported.
As much as 1.7 million people in Latin America countries already are infected with HIV virus causing AIDS and this tendency is growing with 410.000 new cases last year, UNAids programme officials say.
Due to the principles of Catholic Church exerting i... |
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eBay - Ground for Weirdest Lots |
 ...oly pattern' burnt on it. They saw either Jesus Christ with Mary or Moses, the two women couldn't agree on the picture their pan-cake had. Nevertheless Dana thought she could raise some money for her church by selling the pan-cake on the eBay. However the lot didn’t have much popularity on the site. The record holder among food with a 'holy image' was a sandwich that had a bite pattern resembling the face of Mary. It was ... |
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Samurai Swords to be Banned in UK |
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Vernon Coaker, a Home Office Minister said that these swords become dangerous weapons in the wrong hands.
Last year, 11 people were hurt by a man in attack with samurai swords at Roman Catholic Church. Another case was registered when a man was hacking a young woman with a samurai sword. The numerous cases of using these swords in incidents that present a thread to society lead to a decision to ban them.
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The World's Oldest Woman Dies at Age 117 |
 ...claimed to be the oldest person in the world since August 2007.
She was born in 1890 and would have marked her 118 birthday in May, 2008. The date of her birth was found in register book in the Church of the Savior. However, her age was not verified in the Guinness World Record Book.
Varvara Semennikova was an Evenk woman born in a nomadic family who were hunting and deer farming. The oldest Russian woman was ... |
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First Human-Animal Embryo Created |
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John Burn. Lyle Armstrong, a professor and the leading researcher reported about the preliminary results of the study at a conference in Israel.
The research was criticized by the Catholic Church which called it "monstrous", violating the core of human identity.
The research may help in developing stem-cells treatment without the use of human eggs or normal human embryos, providing the necessary material an... |
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Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics |
 ...e, most of the remarkable paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a Romanesque chapel," said Iegor Reznikoff, an expert in the acoustics of 11th and 12th century European churches, who works at the University of Paris. He was the one to lead the research. Presumably these caves were considered to be places of natural power. This brings evidence to the theory that decorated caves represented an... |
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Church Offers Free Fuel for New Worshippers |
 ...In order to attract more worshippers, representatives of a church in New Zealand came up with an original and practically efficient strategy. The church began providing fuel vouchers to newcomers.
Since the prices for fuel started rising, people from New Zealand started praying that the prices will come down with the unleaded fuel costs at nearly $2.20 per liter.
New worshippers at the Destiny Church, located in N... |
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Child Molesting Grandfather Will Likely Die in Jail |
 ...0 years of sexual abuse on his daughters, grandsons, nieces and nephews.
Besides the two generations of his family, the man sexually abused family friends and held the position of authority within a church group to abuse 3 refugees from Africa, who used to go on excursions with the man.
Now the grandfather is 71 and he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. It is worth mentioning that previously he had three sexual assaul... |
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Burglar Calls Owners of the House He Robbed |
 ...to, a burglar decided to leave a note to the house's owners. The note called the residents of the house "dumb arse" because they didn't turn on their alarm system.
The home was located in the Christchurch suburb of Avonhead. It was robbed on Monday. After the house's owners came back home, they discovered the note, which read "Put your cat out and turn your alarm on dumb arse."
For the first time the Christchurch poli... |
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Want to Live Longer - Get a Second Wife |
 ...y of men, such as grandfather effect. In order to test this possibility, researchers analyzed records for 25,000 Finns that lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. These records were preserved by local churches.
Most people moved little, and did not use contraception and the Lutheran Church enforced monogamy. Only a widowed man could get married for a second time, and in case he had children with his new wife, in averag... |
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Teachers Allowed to Carry Guns in School |
 ...s of the teachers who possess guns, the school's staff has received adequate training to be able to carry guns.
In recent years mass murders have been registered in U.S. schools, shopping malls and churches. According to the school's superintendent this violence is the result of a federal legislation enacted in 1995 that turned such areas into "gun-free zones".
It took Thweatt two years to study the issue and fill the ... |
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Sheriff Ends His Self-Imprisonment to Better Understand Inmates |
 ...their communities angrier and more bitter than they originally were", Curran said on his first day in prison.
The idea of going to jail to better understand the life behind the bars struck him in a church at law-enforcement leadership conference in Barrington. Being a Catholic, he explained his decision by religious beliefs, seeing it as an act of redemption and forgiveness.
Curran said that he wants to improve progra... |
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Girls Locked Their Lips to Meet Famous Pop Star |
 ...Perry, singer of the hit song I Kissed a Girl.
The stunt angered the Family Party, a political party in New Zealand established by former members of Destiny New Zealand (party backed by the Destiny Church) and a pastor within the Pentecostal City Impact Church, Paul Adams.
Girls, wishing to take part in the contest, gathered in Cathedral Square. There were about 40 couples who decided to lock their lips so they could ... |
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Man Talked to Priest Before Being Killed by His 8yo Son |
 ... fact that the 29-year-old victim, Vincent Romero, grew up in a family of enthusiastic hunters, he hoped to train his son not to be afraid of weapons. Very Rev. John Paul Sauter of St. Johns Catholic Church said that the child's stepmother supported the idea that the boy should carry a BB gun with himself. The priest did not give any details on what he said to Romero during the visit, but mentioned that the child was "jus... |
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