A parish priest has been forced to apologise after his plans to bless hunter's rifles after Sunday Mass triggered outrage in Italy. Photo shows Don Alessio Biagioni, a pastor in the town of Marliana in Italy, undated. He apologized after announcing plans to bless rifles after Sunday Mass on Sept.…
A grief-stricken woman who sought counselling from a shamanic group has complained about being given an illegal psychedelic toad secretion, saying she has not been the same since. Photo shows Gabriela Silva, undated. Gabriela Silva who participated in a shamanic ritual and smoked in a psychedelic substance without knowing that…
A 65-year-old member of a religious sect has been seized by police after boasting that he had married his first wife's 10-year-old niece. Picture shows Johanne Muzorora, 65, with his wife, 10, undated. The member of the Johanne Marange apostolic sect, was arrested after allegedly marrying his first wifes 10-year-old…
A Roman Catholic diocese has insisted that the image of Jesus Christ on a tree in a Polish town cannot be considered a revelation after people started flogging leaves from the tree online. https://vimeo.com/829441972?share=copy The image, which looks like a head with a halo around it, first appeared on the…
In Kathmandu, CEN Asia Editor Shantanu Guha Ray met the living goddess and sought a boon It is late afternoon and hundreds, mostly foreigners, jostle for space in the courtyard of an ancient home dotted with intricate wood carvings of Hindu gods in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square.Everyone waits with bated breath,…
