Three members of the Raelians, the religious sect that believes life on Earth was started by space aliens, give a whole new meaning to the idea of heavenly bodies in the October issue of Playboy magazine.

Nashville may not be fertile ground for belief in aliens.

This afternoon, a group of Raelians — the atheist sect that claims to have cloned babies and bases their beliefs on a chat with an extraterrestrial — will hold a meeting at the Green Hills library.

Whirled Peas, John Ford, assoc. editor

You’ve got to hand it to his Holiness Rael. The French-born high priest of the Raelians has a knack for hitching his religion to big stars and using the flimsy connection as an excuse to knock Catholicism and almost anything else.

Cult-linked Clonaid, whose success claims haven't been substantiated, now says S'pore couples are trying its controversial method

It draws attention to future penalties for such acts

Singapore - The Singapore government has warned its citizens against human cloning after a foreign group linked to the controversial Raelian sect claimed two couples from the city-state had signed up with it to engineer babies.

A controversial religious sect is tonight expected to tell an Edinburgh audience that it attempting to produce the first Scottish cloned baby.

A company founded by a religious sect has claimed that a Pretoria woman is three months pregnant with South Africa's first cloned baby.

Johannesburg - The cloning of babies is against the law in South Africa and is prohibited by the World Health Organisation, says Collette Vosloo of SA's Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (Saasta).

The shadowy Clonaid organisation founded by a sect leader has claimed another clone baby is on the way - to a Pretoria woman.

CAPE TOWN - Imagine a world in which, when you tire of your body, you simply ask scientists to make a clone of you and up load your personality.

Of the world's hundreds of religions, none captures the imagination more than the Canadian-based Raelian movement. Legitimacy is a different matter.

Wacky alien sex cult the Raelians have poached one of the world's highest ranking Mormon bishops - because he's openly gay.

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