Monday, November 5, 2012

News You Can't Refuse (November 4 - 10)

Welcome to Edition Numero Cuatro. 

Hope the idea of choosing a pope by having a blind-folded kid pick a name out of a hat makes you as happy as it does me!

Child's Ballot Will Determine November Election Of Next Coptic Pope

While Americans prepare to elect their next president on Tuesday, Egyptian Christians are leaving this Sunday's choice for their highest leader up to a higher power: God.


Kyrgyzstan prison protest: Inmates sew lips together

More than 1,300 Kyrgyz prisoners have sewn their lips together as part of an ongoing protest at poor living conditions, say officials.
Nearly 7,000 are already on hunger strike. Their latest move came in response to an official decision to force-feed them.


A Swedish expedition team has found an unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, leaving some to believe it’s the remnants of an extra-terrestrial ship. 
Scientists went off on a deep-water dive to debunk some theories about the underwater object, but were left with more questions than they had answers.


Several years ago sociologist Christian Smith published Soul Searching, an in-depth look at the religious beliefs of American adolescents. He summarized their faith as ‘moralistic, therapeutic deism.’


How Far Away is the Moon? 



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