Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

Last week, the editorial offices of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo were firebombed after the release of an issue “guest edited” by Muhammed. (“100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!” said the cartoon Muhammed on the cover.) The magazine’s website was taken over shortly after that by a Turkish hackers group, who left a [...]

Authorities say non-violent offenders in southern Alabama will have a new choice: Go to jail, or go to church every Sunday for a year.

Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US Military Forces. Obama is about to make an announcement at 11:15pm. The story is still developing.

PROVO, Utah, March 3 (UPI) — A star Brigham Young University basketball player has been suspended for the rest of the season for having premarital sex, the Utah school confirmed. Brandon Davies, 19, was suspended from the Cougars’ nationally-ranked team for the remainder of the season and apologized to his teammates for violating the school’s [...]

Boy Claims to have Visited Heaven

Posted: 2nd March 2011 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, Religion
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Got sins? A new app for the iPhone and the iPad seeks to help Catholics prepare for confession, that sacred ritual of seeking penance for sins big and small. “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” does not purport to take the place of an actual confession. Not even the Catholic Church, tech-savvy as it is with [...]

A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport on Sunday after security staff discovered a skull wrapped in cloth and [...]

Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported. The February 14 celebration named after a Christian saint is not officially banned but hardliners have repeatedly warned about the corruptive spread of [...]

Birds fell from the sky to their deaths in the Ark., La. and Sweden,dead fish are floating around in Md. and Brazil, and most recently, over 40,000 dead devil crabs have washed up along the Kent coast in the U.K. The latest in the string of animal mass mortality incidents across the globe has caused [...]