Religion in Africa can mean big business for those who know how to scratch where it itches
This young generation faces problems previously only envisaged in science fiction movies. They need to reflect on the effect of their own demands on their world
But the church has fallen into the worldly trap of placing money and comfort above God
Most of the workers said his face, it looked like Jesus
The 37-metre acrylic and concrete structure, which cost $800 000, is viewed by some as a symbol of corruption
Tired of being confused with Nazareth, an iconic city next door where Christians believe Jesus was raised, is hoping to change its name
Organised religion, which tells us to believe in invisible things, does not tackle real suffering
When God and people are commodified for material transactions, racism is ignored, greed is blessed, classism and sexism is accepted and LGBTI is evil.
"I hear people complaining when we say the ANC will rule fully until Jesus comes back but we have been blessed. Pastors have prayed for us."
Pontsho Pilane writes about her deep connection with both her faith and her feminism, and her efforts to make sense of the two together.
An ancient piece of papyrus that contains a mention of Jesus’s wife is not a forgery, according to Columbia, Harvard and MIT scientific analysis.
A limestone burial box, typical of first century Jerusalem, has been found with words chiselled on side: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus".
Novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Naomi Alderman are breathing new life into the gospels.
Pope Benedict published the last part of his trilogy on the life of Jesus which reaffirms the the virgin birth as an "unequivocal" truth of faith.
A newly discovered fragment of papyrus suggests Jesus was married. But can we trust the document, and was Mary Magdalene the lady in question?
The pastor who said Jesus was infected with HIV is back for more. This time he would like to welcome you to hell on earth.
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a British scrap metal dealer is to be sold at auction with an estimate of nearly -million, after languishing for years in a shoebox under its current owner’s bed. John Webber’s grandfather gave him the 14cm high mug in 1945 and long assumed that it was made from brass.
Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas authorities said on Monday. Patrick Crimmins, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said 401 children have been taken from the compound.
Authorities removed more than 180 women and children from the Texas compound of a polygamist sect on Saturday evening after receiving reports of ”sexual and physical abuse”. The 10 000-member Mormon group is led by Warren Jeffs, who was convicted in Utah last year on two counts of accomplice to rape.
United States authorities removed 52 girls from a polygamous sect’s compound in western Texas on Friday, and questioned the remaining members of the breakaway Mormon church, officials said. Those removed were aged from six months to 17 years old, according to the Child Protective Services in Schleicher County.
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/ 28 February 2008
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama faced off on Wednesday in a possible prelude to a United States presidential election battle, tangling over whether Iraq would be prey for al-Qaeda if US troops are withdrawn. McCain, who has linked his candidacy to a successful outcome in Iraq, attacked Obama’s stance on the war.
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/ 28 January 2008
Gordon B Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on January 27 at the age of 97, officials said. Hinckley was ordained as the 15th president of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in March 1995.
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/ 21 January 2008
One of the Boeremag treason trial accused, Kobus Pretorius, on Monday told a Pretoria High Court judge he had had an epiphany in jail and wanted to be released on bail so that he could ”serve the community of South Africa”. He told Judge Khami Makhafola he was ”a new man” after accepting Jesus Christ as his saviour.
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, in an interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell, predicted that the United States ”empire” is about to fall, called Jesus Christ history’s number one revolutionary and offered to pose topless. ”Why not? Touch my muscles!” the burly 53-year-old former paratrooper said.
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/ 26 November 2007
There’s no mention of him in the Bible but the plot of a fantasy film set in India gives Jesus Christ a twin brother — and an evil one at that. German filmmaker Robert Sigl’s The 13th Disciple is still in the planning stage but producer Mario Stefan is in Goa trying to attract an Indian co-producer for the project.
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/ 19 October 2007
European Union leaders voiced relief at clinching a deal on Friday on a treaty to reform the 27-nation bloc’s institutions, replacing a defunct constitution and ending a two-year crisis of confidence in Europe’s future. ”It’s an important page in the history of Europe,” Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on arriving to chair the second day of an EU summit.
The bearded image of guerrilla leader Ernesto ”Che” Guevara has become a pop icon splashed on mugs, T-shirts and even bikinis 40 years after his death, and Vallegrande, a Bolivian town, is out to cash in on the marketing frenzy. In central Bolivia, where Guevara battled the army before he was captured and killed, tour operators offer a chance to retrace his final steps on the ”Che Trail”.
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/ 25 September 2007
”In the light of the brouhaha about the nominations to the South African Broadcasting Corporation board, I’d like to ask a question: Are some South Africans eligible to nominate and be nominated to lead public institutions while others should rather be ignored?” writes Prince Mashele.
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/ 12 September 2007
South African pay-TV consumers will soon have a choice between many new broadcast channels — this after the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa awarded pay-TV licences to four new players during a press briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The companies granted licences were Telkom Media, E-Sat, On Digital Media and Walking on Water.
Africa’s reigning king of the avant-garde Meschac Gaba combines the outlandish with the mundane, writes Percy Zvomuya.