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Police torture and deport disabled Uzbek Jehovah's Witness in Tajikistan

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

Police and representatives of the State Committee on National Security (SCNS) raided a religious meeting of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on July

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SNAP holds child sex abuse protest rally in predominantly Catholic Poland

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

An international organization promoting the interests of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests held a rally in Warsaw on Sunday. The organization, the

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South Africa's miracle baby, 1 lb, 2 oz at birth, survived in a sandwich bag

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

Allegra Lategan, South Africa's miracle baby was born on July 29 at only 22 weeks old to construction engineer Hennie Lategan and his wife,

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NRO displays U.S. Cold War era spy satellites

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

It was during the Cold War that a jittery America added "One Nation Under God" to its Pledge of Allegiance.  It was also during

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Are we under alien invasion? MUFON says that UFO sightings have spiked this summer

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an organization which tracks reports of UFO sightings worldwide, has reported that sightings of UFOs have spiked in the

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New research says that Jews and Palestinians have close genetic links

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 19, 2011

A researcher at the Hebrew University has published results of genetic research studies which show that Palestinians and Jews have a common ancestry in

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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks demolish Muslim shrine

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 17, 2011

Supreme Court, Colombo, Sri Lanka

According to a report by the BBC, a crowd of about 100 Buddhist monks in the ancient Buddhist city of Anuradhapura, a UNESCO world

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Prosecutors say that Brazil's Church leaders are stealing millions from the poor

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 16, 2011

The Leaders of one of Brazil's leading prosperity churches, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino, a.k.a "stop suffering"),

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Federal judge upholds $66 million damages award in suit against cult leader Tony Alamo

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 16, 2011

Tony Alamo

A $66 million judgment against evangelist Tony Alamo serving a jail term has been upheld in a judgment handed down on Tuesday by a

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Church of Scientology faces class action over breaches of Australian slavery laws

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 16, 2011

After the national Fair Work Ombudsman in Australia released a report which implicated the Church of Scientology in Australia of breaching slavery laws, a

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U.S. government to display, for the first time in public, top-secret spy satellites of the Cold War era

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 16, 2011

  The news that the United States government is set to lift the veil of secrecy on its once clandestine spy satellites on Saturday

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West African Mango extract, the new dietary supplement fad among weight watchers

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 15, 2011

Christians believe that their body is a 'temple' and to honor their temple, they need to get their weight under control. Well, perhaps God

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Are We Living in The Matrix? The Sentient-Subjective as Domain of "The Sacred" (Part 5)

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 15, 2011

This article continues the "Are We Living in the Matrix?" series. See part 4, Defining the Boundaries of Physics and non-Physics in Subject-Virtual Object

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