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Friday October 26, 2007
Offbeat News:
Martin Humer, who gained notoriety last year after he painted part of a statue of a nude Mozart and stuck feathers on it, is pressuring authorities to remove the crucifix from a public square where it has been displayed for 20 years.
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Thursday October 11, 2007
Offbeat News:
A thief who stole a Bible was given his own copy of the Christian scriptures by a Singapore district judge, who then sentenced the man to four months in prison.
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Wednesday October 10, 2007
Offbeat News:
Memo: the $1 million bills are fake.
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Monday October 1, 2007
Offbeat News:
WHITE PLAINS - A homeless man who stole a Bible from a city book store got one for free yesterday and will have plenty of time to read it - at the Westchester County jail.
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Saturday September 29, 2007
Offbeat News:
Park officials speculated that a Christian group visited the site and, thinking it was a sacred site, preformed a head shaving ceremony, and left offerings to God.
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Saturday September 22, 2007
Offbeat News:
A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. One of two court filings from “God” came Wednesday under otherworldly circumstances, according to John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
Offbeat News:
Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.
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Thursday September 13, 2007
Offbeat News:
Rameck Mangwana pleaded guilty to hoarding the controlled commodities but in mitigation said he intended to use the sugar and milk at a church conference where church members drink a lot of tea.
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Monday August 20, 2007
Offbeat News:
Mike Lewis wants you to know that Satan hates the New Life Center in Cedar Grove. He wants you to know it so much that his church has put up a billboard along U.S. 60 outside Rand saying just that.
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Wednesday August 15, 2007
Offbeat News:
An on-line outdoor retailer in the United States is selling camouflaged Bibles, a curious product which says a lot about American culture.
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Thursday August 9, 2007
Offbeat News:
The Rhinoceros party is trying to fight its way back from political extinction with a $50-million lawsuit against the federal government.
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Saturday August 4, 2007
Offbeat News:
In recent weeks more than 400 blank envelopes containing 10,000 yen bills have been left in the gents toilets of local council buildings all across Japan. Also in the envelope were notes asking that the cash be used for “ascetic training”.
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Monday July 30, 2007
ChristianityOffbeat News:
Devout churchgoers for more than 30 years, Janet and Nick Nelson sat on the parochial council, organised fundraising events and had their photograph featured in the Church Times. But despite their busy schedule, they also found the time to run an X-rated fetish website.
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Sunday July 22, 2007
BuddhismOffbeat News:
A Buddhist businessman who wants to call his Chinese restaurant Fat Buddha has angered council chiefs – who claim the name will upset Buddhists.
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Thursday July 12, 2007
Offbeat News:
Convicted murdered sues God. Case going nowhere…
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Bizarre NewsOffbeat NewsRichard 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 10, 2007
Offbeat News:
In response to a minister’s complaint, a judge on Monday temporarily barred bare buttocks billboards that a bidet company had planned to put up in Broadway’s theater district on a building that houses a church.
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Monday July 9, 2007
Offbeat News:
The Hell family says it may tell a Catholic school in Australia where to go after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name.
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Thursday July 5, 2007
Offbeat News:
Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some US$40,000 ($52,000), Bosnian police said on Tuesday.
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Thursday May 24, 2007
IslamOffbeat News:
Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.
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Monday May 21, 2007
Jehovah's WitnessesOffbeat News:
Police in Sweden are looking for two well-dressed robbers…
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Wednesday May 16, 2007
BibleOffbeat News:
A debate raging over the morals of Hong Kong’s racy media took a bizarre twist Wednesday with revelations that a decency watchdog had been flooded with obscenity complaints about the Bible.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
Mormonism/Mormon ChurchOffbeat News:
“I don’t believe in it, I don’t like it, I think it is Satanic,” Jonathan Hansen said in a telephone interview, adding that to date he has paid his Social Security taxes.
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Wednesday May 2, 2007
Offbeat News:
members of a Kentucky church returned to their cars after a prayer service to find bags or marijuana on their car windscreens.
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Sunday April 29, 2007
Offbeat News:
A Dutch creationist has built a replica of the Ark of Noah.
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