4+ day, 15+ hour ago (789+ words) A comet has been predicted to strike the Earth by the end of the year, on what a controversial religious leader called 'the last day of this world.' The doomsday warning came from the writings of'Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi,'a Pakistani spiritual leader and mystic, who claimed that God was sending a comet to collide with Earth because humanity had strayed too far from spiritual truths. He founded several organizations to spread his teachings of 'divine love,' including the spiritual movement called Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam and the Messiah Foundation International (MFI).' The prophecy, recorded in Gohar Shahi's 2000 book 'The Religion of God,' states: 'A comet has been sent towards Earth for total destruction. The comet is expected to fall on Earth in the next 20-25 years. That will be the last day of this world.' According to Gohar Shahi's followers in the…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago (135+ words) Pope Leo surprised ravers by given a blessing to the crowd midway through a rave held to mark Archbishop Bernard Bober's 75th birthday. Pope Leo surprised ravers by given a blessing to the crowd midway through a rave held to mark Archbishop Bernard Bober's 75th birthday. The surreal set in Ko'ice, Slovakia, was played by Padre Guilherme, a Catholic priest who tours the world performing DJ sets that combine Catholicism with electronica music. Click to watch above." Pope Leo surprised ravers by given a blessing to the crowd midway through a rave held to mark Archbishop Bernard Bober's 75th birthday. The surreal set in Ko'ice, Slovakia, was played by Padre Guilherme, a Catholic priest who tours the world performing DJ sets that combine Catholicism with electronica music. Click to watch above."...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago (1768+ words) Even before I knew anything about manifesting, I was aware that if you really focused on a specific dream you wanted to attract into your future, somehow things would work out and you would be very likely to get it. However, it was only as I experimented in my own life that I began to see that something more was happening than just my working hard towards a goal. Somehow, when I truly determined what I wanted, it was as if everything fell into place and I just seemed to attract good luck. I discovered that the power of manifesting and the law of attraction were at work in my life. I've been writing about manifesting for more than 20 years. In that time, I've learned how to overcome barriers to success and make consistent manifesting easy. Finally, I explained how…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago (551+ words) Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy in the 1990s." The Vatican confirmed in a statement on Saturday that Leo had accepted the resignation of Cadiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza, 76, but did not mention the allegation." It comes after Spanish newspaper El Pais reported earlier this month that Zornoza had been recently placed under investigation by a church tribunal. The national paper, which has exposed decades of abuse and cover-up in the Spanish Catholic Church, said Zornoza was accused of abusing a young former seminarian while he was a young priest and directed the diocesan seminary in Getafe." The report, quoting a letter the former seminarian wrote the Vatican over the summer, said Zornoza fondled him and regularly slept with him from when he was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (1038+ words) He looks like any other toddler - bright eyes, soft curls and an angelic grin. The black and white image, featured in a recent documentary, captures him long before the world knew his name - just a baby with plump cheeks and a gaze full of curiosity." Few could have imagined that this little boy, Robert Prevost, would one day become Pope Leo XIV. A third shows him on the brink of adulthood, dressed smartly in a suit and tie. His expression is calm, self possessed, and unmistakably mature - the look of a young man stepping into the world with quiet confidence. Back then, he was simply a polite, bookish Midwestern boy whom classmates remember as a 'quiet, kind, gentle, wicked-smart kid.' And looking at these early snapshots today, it's almost impossible to reconcile the wide-eyed child in these grainy frames with the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (1863+ words) Let me start by asking you a few questions. How do you feel about your life? Happy, fulfilled? Have you created the life you once imagined for yourself? What would you wish for if you could have anything? A new job, more friends, a new home? A great love? Your heart's desire? Where you are today is the accumulation of everything that has happened to you so far in your life. Each one of us has taken a series of paths " either by accident or by choice " to end up where we are. Your current life has been determined by every thought and feeling you have had, every action you've taken and all the "people and circumstances you have attracted along the way as a result. Think about it. Everything that exists began with a thought, a picture in "someone's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (502+ words) The actor, 34, who played'Zeedan Nazir in the ITV soap, is seen smiling as he is embraced by American cleric'Uthman ibn Farooq'in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.' Farooq, who previously said Europe, the US and Russia will become fully Muslim countries, was banned from the UK after it was revealed he said it was 'halal' to have sex with female slaves.' He sparked outrage after he said that slaves were people 'whom you can have those relationships with'. He added: 'If Allah made it halal, then it's not sinning, that is not adultery because Allah made it.' He was set to complete a speaking tour of London, Manchester and Birmingham in May before he was barred from entering." Manchester-born Akhtar, who also played Chesney Khan in Channel 4 drama Shameless, first joined Coronation Street in 2014. He left in 2018 before returning from 2021 to 2023.' He later…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (863+ words) A long-forgotten book, left out of the Bible and written nearly 1,900 years ago, reveals secret stories of Jesus' childhood that the early church kept under wraps for centuries. Known as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the text tells of Jesus performing miraculous feats, bringing clay birds to life, drawing water from a broken pitcher and healing a boy whose leg was injured by an axe. But it also portrays a darker side, depicting Jesus as vengeful, even cursing a child to death for striking him on the shoulder. After Jesus kills the child for accidentally bumping into him, the villagers become upset and complain to Joseph and Mary. In response to their accusations, Jesus strikes the accusers with blindness. The omitted book begins when Jesus is just five years old, while the traditional Bible's first mention is of him at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (636+ words) Welfare cuts are not immoral, churches are not cash-dispenser machines and Christians, unless they can feed 5,000 people from five loaves and two Galilee sardines, are not mass caterers. These truisms are worth stating because the politics of welfare has taken an ecclesiastical turn. If pursued, and stated with enough clarity in coming days, they could strip the Budget debate of its righteous posturing and rebalance the economy towards parents who work for a living, rather than those who expect everyone else to pick up their bills. Kemi Badenoch created a stir this week by suggesting that her position on the two-child benefits cap (which she would keep) is more Christian than that of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, who has criticised it. Mrs Badenoch argued that ever-higher national debt was immoral because it would bankrupt us and thus…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (1557+ words) Bobby Brazier has shared a glimpse at his spritual journey after ditching the world of showbiz to pursue a new life in India. The EastEnders star, 22, has spent the summer immersing himself in the Hare Krishna religion after leaving the BBC soap earlier this year, having turned to the faith after a period of strained relations with his father Jeff and brother Freddie. While Bobby seems to have patched things up with his father, he has taken to Instagram to show the positive impact his pilgrimage has had on him, posting a video of himself and hundreds of worshippers performing a traditional dance. In the clip, Bobby was joined by monks Indradyumna Swami and'Sacinandana Swami for the uplifting group dance. Reflecting on his spiritual journey so far, Bobby admitted that while it has been 'amazing' to discover more about Hare…...