Collected News and Blogs

Memorial Day parade steps off at 9 a.m.
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Marchers will include veterans, Scouts, American Legion baseball team, Lions, Shepherds, fire trucks, ambulances, vintage cars and dignitaries. The parade will begin at the American Legion, process to the center of Dallas, then to Woodlawn Cemetery and ...

and more »

Community Notes
Greene County Daily World
If decorating with a shepherd's hook please place it to the side of the stone for mowing purposes. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Any questions call 798-7023. .... Have you wanted to read the entire Bible but get discouraged or don't ...

Daily Mail
Parents Herbert and Catherine Schaible denied bail two days after being ...
Daily Mail
The Schaibles are third-generation members and former teachers at their fundamentalist Christian church, the First Century Gospel Church in northeast Philadelphia. At least two dozen children from First Century Gospel ... He did not return phone ...
Dead Pa. baby's dad believes in 'divine healing'Watertown Public Opinion

all 62 news articles »

Occult Illuminator: PW Talks With Paul Kleber Monod
Publishers Weekly
I had read Keith Thomas's classic study, Religion and the Decline of Magic, years before, but his explanations and chronology didn't seem right for Jeake or for many other astrologers, alchemists, and ritual magicians. They didn't seem right for my own ...

The National
Book review: The Honey Guide snares the reader from the start
The National
After managing to scrape together a profile of the victim, he still has to navigate his way through a shady religious cult headed by a bombastic leader while avoiding the convenient red tape placed by his superiors before each potential Pandora's Box ...

Tom Cruise Won't Star In 'The Man From UNCLE' After All
Huffington Post
The project, an adaptation of the cult television series that ran from 1964 through 1968, was first set up in November of 2010 as a Steven Soderbergh film with George Clooney in the starring role. ... </a> Cruise remained relatively quiet about his ...

and more »

At the altar of the Big Green Egg: How a product becomes a cult
Quartz
His point is that federal holidays serve to reinforce American values, which can be viewed as a kind of religion. If Bellah were writing about the subject today, he would certainly mention one ceremony conducted with religious fervor all over the ...

Raising hell for Jesus
Sydney Morning Herald
... boy bands, jazz bands, funk bands, gospel singers, indie acts and instrumentalists. The town and nearby Darling Downs area are big notches in south-east Queens-land's Bible belt, and home to various churches, religious cults and the Cobb & Co Museum.

and more »

Washington Times
Separation of Church and State revisited
Washington Times
Robert A. Heinlein: Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Sandra Day O'Connor: Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a ...

and more »

Sorry Darling, I Am Celibate
AllAfrica.com
Pedophilia apologists will reach for statistics to prove that rampant cases occur in other religious cults, homes, sports institutions and schools. While this is true, it is expected that sexual transgressions among 'holy fathers' would be lower ...

Google News

'The Source Family' is a story of a cult with a beat
Bend Bulletin
Over 30 minutes of the historical/musical/spiritual documentary “The Source Family" pass before anybody uses the word “cult." There's no need to say it aloud. From the opening credits — a lingering close-up of a black-and-white photograph of a bearded ...

and more »

The parents charged with murder in the faith healing death of the 8-month old son have had their bail revoked. They face 40+ years in prison..

And jury deliberations in the trial of Malcolm John Fraser, assistant pastor of the Sound Doctrine Church in Enumclaw, Washington, may begin Tuesday.

Full story: Bail revoked for parents charged in son’s faith healing death

Beyond the Nasarawa Massacre of Police
AllAfrica.com
THE massacre this month of over 40 police officers and 10 Department of State Services, DSS, men by the Ombatse cult in Eggon area of Nasarawa State woke Nigeria to the reality of the danger of increased violence against our law enforcement agents ...

and more »

Sorry Darling, I am Celibate
Capital FM Kenya
Pedophilia apologists will reach for statistics to prove that rampant cases occur in other religious cults, homes, sports institutions and schools. While this is true, it is expected that sexual transgressions among 'holy fathers' would be lower ...

and more »

The pope and the devil: Is Francis and exorcist?
The Tand D.com
“Since no one heard what he said, including me who was right there, you can say he did a prayer for liberation but nothing more,” Rivas wrote on his Facebook page, which was confirmed by his religious order, the Legionaries of Christ. Fueling the ...

and more »

Giving back
Charlotte Observer
Park volunteers: Volunteers are needed for working in Wesley Chapel's Dogwood Park 9 a.m.-2 p.m. June 9. The park is on the corner of Hwy. 84 and Lester Davis Road. There are jobs for all ages. Parents must sign for children younger than 18. Wear work ...

Atmore News
Around the area
Washington Observer Reporter
At City Mission, 84 W. Wheeling St., Washington, Saturday worship service begins at 5 p.m. in the chapel. Sunday worship services begin at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ... At Edward's Chapel Methodist Church, 3111 Route 136, Finleyville, Sunday school begins at ...
Church EventsClaiborne Progress

all 32 news articles »

Community Notes
Greene County Daily World
If decorating with a shepherd's hook please place it to the side of the stone for mowing purposes. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Any questions call 798-7023. .... Have you wanted to read the entire Bible but get discouraged or don't ...

Critics charge Y event everything from sexist to an attempt by Muslims to ...
Sault Star
“I don't want to give up anything to these third-world backward thinking people just because of their religious (or cult) beliefs. You have opened up a can of worms ... You make me sick. You are nothing but a weak money grabbing bunch of panderers.

Haredi family illegally crosses border into Jordan
Jerusalem Post
An initial investigation found that the father belongs to a Canadian-based Jewish religious cult called Lev Tahor (Pure Heart) and was trying to escape with his family to Canada, according to a Channel 10 report. It was not clear why the family could ...

and more »