http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:12:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24829/pennsylvania-state-senator-orie-sought-help-from-psychic http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24829/pennsylvania-state-senator-orie-sought-help-from-psychic#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:40:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24829 Pennsylvania State Senator Jane Orie and her sister, Judge Joan Orie Melvin, apparently asked for some help from a strange place after Sen. Orie became the subject of an investigation of corruption.

Affidavits included in the case against Sen. Orie and her sister, Janine Orie, show that Jane and another sister contacted Carolann Sano, a Philadelphia-based clairaudient, last November while under grand jury investigation.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24829/pennsylvania-state-senator-orie-sought-help-from-psychic/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24559/witches-and-miracle-healers-still-rule-roost-in-superstitious-balkans http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24559/witches-and-miracle-healers-still-rule-roost-in-superstitious-balkans#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:26:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24559 It might sound weird, but even in 2010 the brooding Balkan countries can’t shake their addiction to psychics, clairvoyants, soothsayers and assorted ‘white witches’, all of which are still doing a roaring trade, from Bulgaria to Translyvania.

Every second Bulgarian who took part in a survey for the Sofia television channel BTV said they believed in supernatural powers, and especially feared a curse being put on them. Professor Ljubomir Halachev confirmed in the programme that “trust in psychic powers and second sight is widespread in Bulgaria”.

The apparently unchallengeable claim by Bulgarian clairvoyants and psychics to paranormal powers rests on the world-renowned reputation of their late peer, the seer Baba Vanga -- who is claimed to have predicted, before her death in 1996, a number of world events, including the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the death of Princess Diana, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US – “two American brothers would fall under attacks by birds of steel” – and the sinking of the Russian nuclear cruise-missile submarine Kursk.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24559/witches-and-miracle-healers-still-rule-roost-in-superstitious-balkans/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22218/psychic-surgery http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22218/psychic-surgery#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:45:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22218 A row has broken out between a 'psychic surgeon' who believes he once cured a man of cancer and a campaigner who says he is a con man.

Gary Mannion says he has been psychic since he was 13 but is furious a website called badpsychics.com ridicules his beliefs. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22218/psychic-surgery/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21661/mom-wants-apology-after-psychic-abuse-claim http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21661/mom-wants-apology-after-psychic-abuse-claim#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:09:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21661 An Ontario mother is demanding an apology after the Children's Aid Society began an investigation into sexual abuse allegations after a visit to a psychic.

She said she was told that her daughter Victoria's teaching assistant had been to a psychic recently...]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21661/mom-wants-apology-after-psychic-abuse-claim/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21279/occult-psychi-exorcis http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21279/occult-psychi-exorcis#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:59:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21279 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21279/occult-psychi-exorcis/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21072/psychics-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21072/psychics-2#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:56:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21072/psychics-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21072/psychics-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19792/sylvia-browne http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19792/sylvia-browne#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:00:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19792/sylvia-browne http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19792/sylvia-browne/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19756/psychics http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19756/psychics#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:14:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19756/psychics http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19756/psychics/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19583/sophie-evon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19583/sophie-evon#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:19:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19583/sophie-evon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19583/sophie-evon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19395/uri-geller-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19395/uri-geller-3#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:58:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19395/uri-geller-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19395/uri-geller-3/feed 0