| March 20, 2008 | - Francisco Duque III, the Philippine Secretary of Health, encouraged Roman Catholic worshippers who planned on flaying the skin off their backs or crucifying themselves on Easter to get a tetanus shot first and to use clean whips and nails.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| March 18, 2008 | - In response to fury over a handful of remarks made by Reverend Jeremiah Wright over the course of his 36 years as a pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Senator Barack Obama delivered a nuanced and serious speech about race in America. “I think it's an obligation of any opponent to use this issue,” said Congressman Peter King (R.-NY), “to make Reverend Wright a centerpiece of the campaign.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Newsday
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| January 10, 2008 | - Bush, guarded by ten thousand policemen in Jerusalem, told Condoleezza Rice that the United States should have bombed Auschwitz, and was flown by helicopter to Bethlehem so that he could pass through a tiny Door of Humility and pray at the traditionally venerated birthplace of Jesus Christ.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
Yahoonews
Source 3:
Reuters via Haaretz.com
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| December 12, 2007 | - In Colorado Springs, 24-year-old Matthew Murray killed four Christians, including two teenaged sisters, and injured five others before Jeanne Assam, a volunteer security guard at New Life Church, shot him. “It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God,” said Assam. “God made me strong.” During his 12-hour killing spree, Murray paused to post a plagiarized screed to an Internet forum, copying almost verbatim the note left by one of the Columbine High School killers.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| October 12, 2007 | - Ramzi Yousef, the jailed mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, converted to Christianity.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| March 20, 2007 | - After it was discovered that he was drinking the blood and eating the flesh of their young women, a man named Black Jesus was captured by villagers in Papua New Guinea.
| Source:
Fox News
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| March 3, 2007 | - A television documentary reported that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, the couple had a son named Judah, and the three were buried together with Mary and Joseph in Israel.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 25, 2007 | - It was revealed that Government Elementary School Number 4, the public school in Indonesia that Barack Obama attended when he was six, had a painting of Jesus on the wall. Fox News acknowledged that they had given too much credence to a claim by Insight Magazine that Hillary Clinton's campaign was investigating the possibility that Obama's public school was a madrassah.
| Source:
ABC
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| August 7, 2006 | - America Online released the search query data of 658,000 people to the Web, then pulled the information because it could be used to violate user privacy. User 88112, for instance, searched for “christian beliefs and sex outside of marrigae” and “penis abnormalities in children,” while user 843043 searched for “fungal meningitis and coma” and “easter
cookie recipe for jesus' suffering.” “This,” said an AOL representative, “was a screw up.”
| Source:
eWeek
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| July 20, 2006 | - The United States agreed to buy a 29-foot-tall cross located on a hilltop in San Diego.
| Source:
NY Times
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| July 3, 2006 | - A subway derailment near Jesus station in Valencia, Spain, killed 34 people.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
680 News
Source 3:
Scotsman
Source 4:
Scotsman
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| June 30, 2006 | - The library of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, cancelled its subscription to the
New York Times
.
| Source:
MySA.com
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| April 16, 2006 | - A poll found that 63 percent of Americans were “absolutely certain” of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 7, 2006 | - A translation of the Gnostic Gospel of Judas was released. In the text, originally written in Greek and translated into Coptic around 300 A.D., Jesus Christ asks his favorite disciple Judas Iscariot to turn him over to the Romans for sacrifice.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 1, 2006 | - In Valletta, Malta, a man described as a "dark-skinned foreigner" walked into the Church of Our Lady of Jesus during mass and destroyed a 200-year-old mother-of-pearl crucifix. "Christians," said the man, "do not live up to what they preach."
| Source:
The Times of Malta
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| March 9, 2006 | - The Sheaf, a University of Saskatchewan campus newspaper, was criticized for publishing a cartoon showing Jesus Christ
fellating a talking pig.
| Source:
The Gateway
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| February 13, 2006 | -
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he was "the Jesus Christ of Italian politics." "I sacrifice myself," he said, "for everyone."
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 26, 2006 | - In Manchester, England, the BBC was planning an Easter tribute in which Jesus Christ will sing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division before joining Judas in a duet of "Blue Monday" by New Order. Later, as Roman soldiers flay him, Jesus will sing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| January 12, 2006 | - A Minnesota man named Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey, who claims to be a vampire, announced that he would run for governor and promised that if elected he would personally impale murderers and child molesters. “I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus,” he explained.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 19, 2005 | - For the second time this year, someone stole the life-sized Jesus from a nativity scene in Cincinnati, Ohio, although this time they left behind baby Jesus's leg.
| Source:
The Canton Rep
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| December 6, 2005 | - A Funyun shaped like the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus sold online for $609.
| Source:
The Miami Herald
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| October 6, 2005 | - The Catholic Church of Scotland published a guide to the Bible stating that the account of creation in the book of Genesis is “symbolic.” The virgin birth of Jesus, however, is still considered to be fact.
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| August 9, 2005 | - In Jerusalem the biblical Pool of Siloam, where Jesus cured a blind man, was discovered by sewer workers.
| Source:
Post-Gazette.com
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| June 18, 2005 | - A nun in Romania, undergoing exorcism, died after she was tied to a cross, gagged, and left alone for three days in a cold room. “I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this,” said the priest who organized the exorcism.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 22, 2005 | - A Fresno, California, man was standing trial for killing nine of his children, seven of whom he fathered with his own daughters and nieces. “Jesus was a womanizer,” he explained.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
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| April 17, 2005 | - One-foot-tall talking Jesus, David, Mary, and Moses dolls will be sold in June.
| Source:
Messengers of Faith
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| March 20, 2005 | - Seventy-eight percent of Americans believe that Christ
rose from the dead.
| Source:
Newsweek
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| February 14, 2005 | - The last witness to the miraculous appearance of the Virgin Mary at Fatima died, and
| Source:
The Daily Telegraph
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| January 21, 2005 | - A cartoonist was sentenced by a Greek court to six months in prison for depicting Jesus as a pot-smoking hippie.
| Source:
Ananova
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| January 11, 2005 | - It was announced that no one may carry a cross along the 2005 inaugural parade route.
| Source:
The News-Herald
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| December 26, 2004 | -
Italian police used computer software to create a composite sketch of Jesus Christ at age 12, based on the Shroud of Turin. The sketch shows that Christ had blue eyes, fair skin, and dirty blond hair.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| December 23, 2004 | - The Siloam Pool, where Christ is said to have healed the blind (John 9:7), was discovered in Jerusalem.
| Source:
National Post
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| October 28, 2004 | -
Fistfights broke out among Christians from different sects at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is said to be the site of Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and the site of his tomb. "There was a lot of hitting going on," said a witness. "Police were hit, monks were hit, there were people with bloodied faces."
| Source:
Guardian
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| May 18, 2004 | - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California filed suit against a toy company that makes a bobblehead doll in his image; the company also makes dolls of other political figures, as well as celebrities such as Jesus Christ and Anna Nicole Smith.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 24, 2003 | - Lightning struck the actor who plays Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's current film project, "The Passion of Christ," during a shoot in Italy.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 10, 2003 | - President Charles Taylor resigned, blaming all his troubles on the United States, and compared himself to Jesus Christ;
| Source:
Newsday
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| November 26, 2002 | -
Members of the Evangelical Environmental Network were selling bumper stickers reading “What would Jesus drive?” as part of a campaign to convince automakers to build more fuel-efficient cars: “The Risen Lord Jesus is concerned about the kinds of cars we drive because they affect his people and his creation.”
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| November 19, 2002 | -
Jesus Christ appeared in southern India on a toasted chappati.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
A Secret Service agent admitted writing, “Islam is evil, Christ is King,” on a Muslim prayer calendar while searching the home of a man accused of entering the country with counterfeit cashier's checks.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ campaigned to exhume the body, in Kashmir, for DNA tests and carbon dating.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Many Roman Catholics were hoping that Pope John Paul II would use his absolute power in such matters to declare the Virgin Mary a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ; 6 million Catholics, including 550 bishops and 42 cardinals, have signed petitions beseeching the Pope to do so, which effectively would make the Virgin a god.
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