CALIFORNIA
Pledge case to be reheard
Girl's Christianity potential factor in arguments before entire court
WorldNetDaily.com
The judge who rendered the controversial opinion for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - that "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional - will not have the last word.

FLORIDA
TV 'Psychic' Back In Court
WPLG Click10.com
A woman who claims to be a Jamaican psychic was back in a Broward courtroom Tuesday. Youree Dell Harris, better known for her "Miss Cleo" TV ads, is in a Fort Lauderdale to continue a court-ordered deposition.
For further research see Court TV's Full Coverage of Miss Cleo or COURT TV's Miss Cleo Special Report, including legal documents and script which "psychics" read to callers.

ILLINOIS
Followers of Zoroastrianism meet to discuss how best to keep their faith in the future
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO -- Mazda Antia, a 27-year-old attorney, is used to people asking if he's named after a car. "No, the God of the Zoroastrians," he tells them. "Oh, you're from Jamaica," they say. "I'm not Rastafarian," he responds. "I'm Zoroastrian."

NEW YORK
Minister Suspended Over 9/11 Service
Newsday
"NEW YORK -- A minister with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been suspended for participating in an interfaith service at Yankee Stadium for the families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks."

CHINA
China hunts TV hacking culprits
CNN.com
"BEIJING -- Overseas factions of an outlawed spiritual movement have been accused of interrupting a television broadcast in China to air Falun Gong propaganda."
Other related articles:
Banned Falun Gong Movement Jammed Chinese Satellite Signal, The Washington Post
China declares war on Falun Gong satellite hackers, Reuters
Further research:
Falun Gong: China's Dilemma (several great articles), CNN.com

GERMANY
Blind psychic sees futures in buttocks
Bangkok Post
"BERLIN -- Forget palm-reading. A blind German psychic claimed yesterday he could read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny."
Other News Agencies:
Psychic 'reads people's futures by feeling naked buttocks', Ananova

INDIA
Hindus find religion convenient on Web
The Associated Press
"BANGALORE -- When an astrologer warned Anasuya Dhanrajgir that bad luck was on her horizon, she took the road increasingly traveled by modern Hindus looking to appease ancient divinities."

JAPAN
Husband frets over fate of wife held in China Falun Gong bust
The Japan Times
"The Chinese wife of a Japanese man has been detained for more than a month in China after she was arrested for supporting the Falun Gong spiritual movement."

NIGERIA
Port Harcourt University's Vice Chancellor: "Me, a Cultist?"
Newswatch
"LAGOS -- University of Port Harcourt's vice chancellor, just out of police detention, reacts to allegation that he is a gunrunner and cultist. For the past three weeks, there had been tension in the University of Port Harcourt."

'Anglican Church Will Not Bury Secret Society Members'
This Day
"LAGOS -- The church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has expressed disgust about the ravaging cultism practice, especially in the tertiary institutions of learning and urged priests to intensify efforts at stamping out the menace; saying there would be no church burial for any secret society member."

Nigerian man wants to die for blaspheming
BBC News
"A man has asked a Sharia court in northern Nigeria to give him the death penalty for blaspheming against the prophet Muhammad. Aliyu Ibrahim, 20, from Adamawa State in north-eastern Nigeria travelled to Sokoto and asked the Upper Sharia Court Two there to prosecute him for blasphemy."

Nigerian woman fights stoning
BBC News
"An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has begun hearing an appeal from a woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning under controversial Sharia, or Islamic, law."

UGANDA
Kanungu, Nyabingi And the Virgin Mary
The East African
"NAIROBI -- It is now over two years since more than 500 people were burnt to death in the church headquarters of the religious sect that called itself The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, in the village of Kanungu, southwestern Uganda." Related article:
Mysteries of a Mass Murder
The East African
"NAIROBI -- Just over two years ago, one of the worst tragedies in Uganda's recent history was revealed to the world when it was discovered that hundreds of people had been burnt to death in the church headquarters of a religious sect in the village of Kanungu."

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