January 2010
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Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance →
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an...
Pastor accused of pulling gun on son at church →
ALCOA, Tenn. – The son of a well-known Alcoa pastor has taken out an order of protection against his father, claiming he was threatened with a gun during an argument at a church over his lack of church attendance. The order of protection was filed by 32-year-old Michael Louis Colquitt against 60-year-old Joe Colquitt, pastor of St. John Missionary Baptist Church.
The younger man told police his...
Arab journalists convene in Beirut to discuss... →
Laurent: ‘media has right to freely express every opinion’
BEIRUT: Journalists and authors from across the Arab world convened in Beirut on Friday for a European Union-funded media censorship conference. The SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom’s “Censorship on the Media in Arab and Mediterranean” will discuss and construct ways to counter “censorship in all its forms; religious,...
Lebanon to Decide on Sale of Mobile Phone... →
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Lebanon will decide by the end of the year how to sell two mobile phone operators, which previous governments had hoped would raise as much as $7 billion.
“It’s complicated,” Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas said in an interview at his office in Beirut. “We will decide the pattern or forms of private investment in the telecommunications industry by the end...
Italy opens first prison for transsexuals →
Guards will undertake special training in how to treat transgender prisoners when the prison block opens near Empoli, in Tuscany, in March.
Campaigners welcomed the initiative, the first of its kind, because they said transsexual prisoners face discrimination in Italy’s mainstream prisons and are rejected by both male and female inmates. They often have to be segregated for their own...
Australia bans small boobs and female ejaculation... →
The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.
The end result of this widening of the censor’s net could be the addition of millions of websites to the internet filter now being proposed.
Breasts came under the spotlight a year ago, as Senators Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett...
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Dad ordered kids to bite officers →
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Police in Colorado arrested a 28-year-old man accused of passing out in a McDonald’s play area and telling his two children to bite the officers who were trying to arrest him. Colorado Springs police said officers had to use a Taser on Joshua Alger to subdue him Wednesday after he allegedly passed out drunk at the fast-food restaurant.
Police said Alger refused...
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