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Feds bringing evangelist Alamo back to Arkansas
 Evangelist Tony Alamo left Arizona for Arkansas under the watch of federal marshals Monday, preparing to answer to charges that he took children across state lines to engage in sexual activity.
Alamo, 74, had waived his right to fight extradition to Arkansas. He has not yet been indicted.
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Islamic hate preacher urges his followers to reject the laws of the UK
 A ranting hate preacher is touring the Midlands in an attempt to radicalise young Muslims and promote extremism.
Abu Waleed - a disciple of hook-handed fanatic Abu Hamza - told audiences in Birmingham, Derby and Leicester that they should rise up against Britain.
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Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead
 Modern culture is so devoid of faith that some people are declaring God "dead" and entire nations are losing their identity, Pope Benedict XVI warned yesterday.
His comments, made during a Mass at the start of a month-long synod of Roman Catholic bishops from around the world, come amid growing concern about the decline in church attendance and interest in religion in many Western nations.
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Birmingham, UK: Former office block to be handed to Scientologists
 The controversial Church of Scientology is set to complete a multi-million pound deal for a huge new HQ in a leafy Birmingham street within weeks, it emerged today
The Birmingham Mail exclusively revealed the sect ? famed for its celebrity disciples like Tom Cruise and a belief in aliens ? was ready to stump up about £4.25 million for the former office block on Moor Green Lane in April.
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Foreclosures: Did God Want You to Get That Mortgage?
 Has the so-called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants ? and hence, victims ? of the current financial crisis?
While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise ? that God will "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life ? had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom.
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US financial crisis causes spike in online anti-Semitism: monitor
 The US financial crisis has provoked an outpouring of anti-Semitism on the Internet, with Jews being blamed for the debacle on Wall Street, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Blogs devoted to conspiracy theories as well as white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites have sought to exploit events on Wall Street and the subprime crisis to support their agendas, ADL said.
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Mormon Church plans 5 new temples
 Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson said Saturday the church has plans to build five new temples worldwide, three abroad and two in the United States.
The Mormon Church is considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity. Its temples, rituals and doctrines are rejected by mainstream Christians.
Due to its attempts to pass off Mormon doctrines and practices as being compatible to -- or even representative of -- Christianity, the Mormon Church is considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity.
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Faith-healing parents arrested; plead not guilty in death of son
 Neal Beagley, 16, died because of bladder complications nearly four months ago. Authorities said his parents belong to the Followers of Christ Church, a religion relying on prayer in place of medical care.
Several of the Beagleys' relatives attended the arraignment, including their daughter, Raylene Worthington and her husband, Carl, whose 15-month-old daughter died under similar circumstances in March. The Worthingtons are awaiting trial on charges of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment.
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Families in deadly ritual are Al-Arqam follower
 The two families who took part in a ritual ?cleansing? to cure illness that led to the death of a couple are followers of the banned deviant group Al-Arqam.
Al-Arqam, theologically a cult of Islam, was banned in Malaysia as a deviant sect in 1994.
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Faith healers dangerous for public health, Amsterdam alderman claims
 The City of Amsterdam and the COC -- an advocacy group for LBGT men and women -- are calling for an investigation by the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate into healing rituals offered by Pentecostal churches for homosexuals and HIV patients.
The healing services can lead to HIV patients forsaking their medicines, and contribute to the stigmatization of homosexuals.
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