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MOSCOW (RNS) — Authorities in Vladivostok, the largest city in far eastern Russia, are planning to erect a gigantic statue of Jesus Christ on a site once designated for a monument of Vladimir Lenin.
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Roman Lunkin, a religion analyst at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, told RNS that...
Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
https://religionnews.com/2018/10/18/water-pollution-in-iraq-threatens-mandaean-religious-rites/
Interestingly, Dr. Adaha's work has been supported by Samaritan's Purse, an aid organization run by Franklin Graham, who once called Islam a "very wicked and evil religion".
https://religionnews.com/2018/10/05/franklin-graham/
The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping.
This is not fake news. A team of UCF astrophysicists has developed a scientifically based, standardized method for creating Martian and asteroid soil known as simulants.
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"The simulant is useful for...