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Thursday December 3, 2009
Raelians:
The U.N. refugee agency is considering an asylum request from the Iranian leader of the Raelian Movement, a sect that believes in extraterrestrials.She is being detained in Istanbul for not carrying a proper passport when she arrived in Turkey last week, and as an apostate from Islam faces a possible death sentence if sent home.
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Friday June 5, 2009
Raelians:
A UFOland is to be built in Las Vegas by the Raelian movement, a religious cult which believes humans were created by extra-terrestrials.
Visitors will be able to attend a Happiness Academy and see a full-size replica of a UFO.
In 2002, Clonaid, a company linked to the religious cult, claimed it produced the world’s first cloned baby.
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Tuesday May 12, 2009
Raelians:
In a decision that one lawyer says further restricts the media’s freedom in Quebec, a judge has ruled that the a newspaper’s “clandestine” undercover investigation of the Raelian UFO cult went too far. He has ordered its parent company, Sun Media Corp., to pay $9,000 in damages to two Raelians who sued for invasion of privacy.
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Monday July 14, 2008
Raelians:
A group of glamour lesbians who believe the world was created by an alien civilisation 25,000 years ago have criticised the Catholic Church for being out of touch.Raelian spokeswoman Eden Bates said it was an insult that the Pope would be welcomed into Australia when “our gorgeous, fantastic spiritual leader Rael wasn’t even given the respect of a visa”.
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Thursday February 21, 2008
Female Genital Mutilation • Raelians:
The Raelians have championed some strange causes in the movement’s 25-year history, including aliens and human clones, but now they are going to bat for a body part — the clitoris. [video]
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Monday August 13, 2007
Raelians:
Hundreds were gathering here Monday to study the teachings of the controversial Rael sect, which believes extraterrestrials created Earth, as the group sought to expand its largest base of Japan.
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Friday July 6, 2007
Raelians:
A poster advertising a cult UFO conference in Glastonbury was taken down after concerns that a swastika featured on it was causing offence.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
Raelians:
Although there are only a few dozen Raelians in Las Vegas, the city will soon become the North American headquarters for the Raelian Movement.
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Thursday February 22, 2007
Raelians:
Cult leader Rael, who shot to media prominence in 2002 by claiming to have cloned a human being, has been denied residence in Switzerland for fear of endangering public morals, authorities said.
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Friday February 16, 2007
Raelians:
The Raelians want to sell their UFOland and move from Canada to the USA.
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Sunday February 11, 2007
Raelians • Swastika:
The Raelian movement, an atheistic cult that claims humans were created by aliens, has reverted to its original symbol: a swastika inside a Star of David.
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Saturday November 25, 2006
Raelians:
After Andrew’s death, the Hunts made international news when they hired Dr. Brigitte Boisselier — who belonged to a religious sect that believes life on Earth is the product of genetic experimentation by aliens — to explore the possibility of cloning their son.
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Wednesday July 5, 2006
Raelians:
Suit against columnist thrown out. With his provocative attacks on Christians, Jews, Vorhilon told he's not above criticism
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Monday July 3, 2006
Raelians:
MONTREAL -- In laughing him off as a "scatter-brained swindler" and a "clown," an Ottawa columnist did not libel the cult leader known as Rael, a Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled.
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Tuesday May 16, 2006
Female Genital Mutilation • Raelians:
LAS VEGAS, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the announcement made by Dr. Lankonade, OBGYN in Burkina Faso, stating that women and children of all ages who have suffered the indignation and torture of clitoral excise (the equivalent of male castration in its barbarity) now have the chance to regain sexual pleasure and once again be whole thanks to medical advances and the progression of science, RAEL, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, decided to help as many women as possible to regain their sense of pleasure and founded CLITORAID, a private non-profit organization that will sponsor those who want to have their clitoris rebuilt.
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Sunday March 12, 2006
Raelians:
A bizarre religion that says it clones humans and communicates with aliens has embarked on a massive recruiting campaign across Brisbane.
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Monday January 16, 2006
Raelians:
An American cloning agency which claims to have cloned human beings announced yesterday that it has offered to hire scientist Hwang Woo-suk.
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Saturday November 19, 2005
Raelians:
TEL AVIV, Israel -- On November 8, the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a report on the 40th anniversary of SETI, the institute whose stated purpose is to "explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe".
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Thursday September 22, 2005
Raelians:
"Sensual seminars" and flying saucers as French sect goes recruiting in Spain
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Thursday September 1, 2005
Raelians:
'The Possibility of an Island', the long-awaited new book by French literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq, went on sale across Europe and the US Wednesday — backed by a ringing endorsement from the Raelian cult.
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Monday August 15, 2005
Raelians:
Filmmaker secretly documents Raelians to expose 'brainwashing, sexual coercion'
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Thursday August 11, 2005
Raelians:
Abdullah Hashem is still making movies, but this time the location is a little different and the subject much more serious.
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Friday March 4, 2005
Raelians:
Let us now paraphrase the Gospel of Rael: An immortal race of alien hotties created the first humans in a laboratory 22,000 years ago. The aliens check in on us every Sunday, around 11 a.m.
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Saturday February 12, 2005
Raelians:
An organisation is encouraging Auckland high-school students to fight for their right to wear what they want.
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Monday November 29, 2004
Raelians:
Eminem's politically charged video for "Mosh" has earned him recognition as "honorary priest" of the anti-violence UFO cult, The Raelian Movement.
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