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Prayer DOES work, says researcher
Monday, April 23, 2007
 UNITED STATES. Two recent much-publicised studies of the efficacy of prayer concluded that it didn’t work. But David R. Hodge, an assistant professor of social work in the College of Human Services at Arizona State University's West campus, has come to the opposite conclusion. The results of his exhaustive meta-analysis on the effects of intercessory prayer among people with psychological or medical problems have just been published. Hodge, a leading expert on spirituality and religion, says the evidence confirms that prayer can produce positive results. Read More
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Fortune teller inherits billions
Sunday, April 22, 2007
 HONG KONG. If feng shui master and fortune teller Tony Chan Chun-cheun is as talented as Nina Wang, Asia’s richest woman, believed him to be, the news that he has inherited her £2 billion estate will come as no surprise to him. Lawyers representing the pig-tailed businesswoman, who owned Chinachem and died from ovarian cancer earlier this month, announced the decision on Friday 20 April, but it is likely that her 96-year-old father-in-law will be among the challengers. She is pictured with Mr Chan.
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Pope reinstates Hell as a place to avoid
Monday, April 02, 2007
 ROME. Where the hell is Hell? It’s a question many Roman Catholics must be asking themselves after the latest pontification on the subject from the Pontiff himself, Pope Benedict XVI. Addressing a parish gathering in a Rome suburb, he said Hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more”. In doing so, he appears to be contradicting his predecessor, John Paul II, who said in 1999: “Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God”.ROME. Where the hell is Hell? It’s a question many Roman Catholics must be asking themselves after the latest pontification on the subject from the Pontiff himself, Pope Benedict XVI.
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Healer loses appeal against child rape conviction
Monday, April 02, 2007
 SWEDEN. Mervyn Johnson, trance healer and former president of the International Spiritualist Federation, has lost his appeal against the five-year prison sentence imposed on him by a Swedish court for child rape. The sentence was confirmed on 30 March. Read More
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