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Thursday October 18, 2007
Bizarre News:
This insurance company spied on a private church function. First they apologized. Now they defend their actions.
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Friday August 24, 2007
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The president of an insurance company that hired private investigators to spy on clients during a church confessional issued a public apology Thursday. That may not be enough.
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Wednesday August 22, 2007
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No one knew the couple wasn’t actually interested in joining the church. Instead, they were private investigators hoping two church members, Bill and Leandra Pitts, would spill something they could use to discredit the pair in an ongoing lawsuit over a traffic accident.
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Thursday July 12, 2007
Bizarre News • Richard Frazier:
The Tularosa man who claims God delivered new revelations to him via an electronic chair “God’s Comfort Chair,” as he calls it handed seven copies of the message, a booklet he called “God’s New Revelations” to his wife, Nelly, on Saturday.
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Bizarre News • Offbeat News • Richard Frazier:
A Tularosa man invented what he calls the “ultimate machine,” a high technology, multi-purpose apparatus that for many years gathered dust. When he turned it on recently, he said it did something completely unexpected.
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Tuesday July 3, 2007
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On the face of it, the Bishop of Carlisle and the young man who staggered blazing from that Jeep at Glasgow Airport on Saturday afternoon don’t have a lot in common….
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Sunday June 17, 2007
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An ignorant priest claims she is a member of two religions whose teachings are mutually contradictory.
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Thursday May 31, 2007
Bizarre News • Islam:
The highest court in Malaysia yesterday rejected a Muslim-born woman’s appeal to be recognised as a Christian, ending a six-year legal battle that will heighten concerns over discrimination of the country’s religious minorities.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
Bizarre News • Offbeat News:
In many historically Christian countries, the buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, with the cross standing as a symbol of the crucifixion.
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Monday April 2, 2007
Bizarre News • Holocaust • Islam:
Some UK schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
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Sunday February 4, 2007
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A couple who withheld a donation to their church and instead left a note protesting the closure of a Roman Catholic high school were suspended by the pastor.
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Saturday December 23, 2006
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A man used flammable liquid to light himself on fire, apparently to protest a San Joaquin Valley school district’s decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation.
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Thursday December 14, 2006
Billy Graham • Bizarre News:
The couple’s graves had long been expected to be at The Cove, a Bible training center near the Grahams’ mountainside home at Montreat, but now those plans are uncertain. Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, acknowledged Wednesday that the family is now divided on the issue. He said the burial could be at The Cove or at a museum and library being built at the association’s Charlotte headquarters.
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
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The nine Christmas trees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were supposed to come down quietly over the weekend, in an attempt to avoid litigation and publicity. But it didn’t quite work out that way.
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Friday December 1, 2006
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A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna’s kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year.
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Friday September 29, 2006
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School board members have voted to not renew the contract of a veteran art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a school trip to a museum.
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Wednesday January 25, 2006
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A Christian society has had its assets frozen and been banned from holding meetings at Birmingham University for refusing membership to non-Christians.
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Wednesday December 14, 2005
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".
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Sunday October 16, 2005
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Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, is determined to tackle the perception that the US has an "appalling" record on international law, according to her principal legal adviser.
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Monday September 26, 2005
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ONTARIO, Calif. -- A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.
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Wednesday December 11, 2002
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Most Read about Bizarre News
- Billy Graham's sons in feud over parents' burial site
- UK Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
- Man invents machine with a message
- UK Hospital banned hot cross buns to avoid offending non-Christians
- Man man gets new revelations
- Priest claims she is both Christian and Muslim
- [Only in America...] Teacher reprimanded after student sees nude art on museum trip
- California girl expelled from Christian school because parents are lesbian
- Students ban Christian group
- Man sets himself on fire to protest religious names for school breaks
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