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Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 5/01/2004 12:00AM
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Television:
The National Broadcasting Commission's gospel without miracles | If the Federal Government in collaboration with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria set up a monitoring machinery to investigate and probe the activities of some specific suspected miracle workers, the gullible ones will be better protected in all areas (Editorial, Daily Champion, Nigeria)
Hundreds protest at TV 'seance' | A live TV "seance" by illusionist Derren Brown has become one of the most complained about shows in history (BBC)
700 complain over TV seance spoof | A spoof seance conducted by the Channel 4 illusionist Derren Brown has attracted one of the highest numbers of complaints ever registered for a television programme, the station said yesterday (The Telegraph, London)
Why I've changed my mind on vilification laws | This legislation is undermining those religious freedoms it is intended to protect (Amir Butler, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
Spirituality:
Bush daughter is Spanish pilgrim | US President George W Bush's daughter Jenna is due to complete the last leg of a Christian pilgrimage in Spain (BBC)
End of the world as we know it? | It might sound like a joke, but for millions of fundamentalist Christians the idea that one day they will be instantaneously sucked off the face of the earth and disappear forever is one they hold dear (Radio Netherlands)
Language:
Forget 'Hic, Haec, Hoc.' Try 'O Tempora! O Lingua!' | Rev. Reginald Foster is a master classicist who has devoted his life to saving Latin from extinction. Not just quill-on-parchment Latin. The conversational Latin language of Cicero, wellspring of Western civilization and, at one time, mother tongue of the Roman Catholic Church. (New York Times)
Reaching out one language at a time | To access more of the community, St. Matthew's Church adds Armenian to English and Korean services (News-Press, Glendale, Ca.)
More articles:
LDS Church warns members not to believe everything they hear | The LDS First Presidency issued one of its rare public statements this week, discouraging members from circulating notes taken at a church regional or stake conference without the consent of the speaker. (Salt Lake Tribune)
Churchmen upset over nude cyclists | A planned nudist bicycle tour in the Netherland's so called bible-belt has upset local churchmen who are holding their own youth charity bike ride the same day (Reuters)
Sacred Harp hymn-singing is the rage again | Once widespread across the South, Sacred Harp singing — also known as shape-note or fasola singing — has been sustained by almost fanatic amateur singers like the Texans who trek to towns and cities throughout the eastern half of the state for one-day "singings" and two-day "conventions" (Houston Chronicle)
Charles and Camilla should wait and let boredom take its course | The joy of attacking people from a religious standpoint is that you get all the vicious thrill of venting your hatred of humanity, with none of the guilt (Tom Utley, The Telegraph, London)
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