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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: spirituality

spirituality stories: 12 news summaries

(Newser) - Far from Japan's hypermodern cities, a few old, blind women are among the last of a centuries-old tradition—they are mediums, or the "itako," calling forth the spirits of the dead for paying visitors. In medieval times, Japan was full of women communing with spirits, but now so... More »

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Japan • spirituality • blindness • mediums • paranormal

 Jittery Investors 
 Seek Direction From 
 Feng Shui Gurus 

In Asia, when a feng shui master talks, people listen

Feb 9, 09 3:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Hong Kong investors are invoking feng shui—the ancient Chinese art associated in the Western mind with interior decorating—to guide their depleted portfolios, the Wall Street Journal reports. Two inauspicious lunar eclipses have already predicted a grim year, and masters are warning investors to beware of the land of... More »

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Barack Obama • investors • Hong Kong • spirituality • financial markets • financial crisis • President Obama • feng shui • Year of the Ox

Is Recession in the Cards? More Turn to Psychics

One clairvoyant's advice beat the market

Dec 1, 08 2:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Canadian Ray Pambrun sold many of his stocks in late October and managed to miss the market’s most recent downswing. His secret? Consulting a psychic, who beat out the financial advisers and economists predicting a bottom. It may not be the soundest investment strategy, but clairvoyants have seen business... More »

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stock market • spirituality • mystics • psychic • financial crisis • economic downturn

(Newser) - The presidential candidates will put their spiritual views on display tomorrow night, appearing with Rick Warren, the country's most popular pastor, at his megachurch in California. The back-to-back 1-hour interviews are clear signs of both the importance of religion in the campaign and the emergence of a new type of... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • religion • spirituality • Rick Warren • Election 2008

 Obama's Unique
 Road to Faith 

How the presumptive nominee found a religion, and now seeks a church

Jul 13, 08 3:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - As a young man, Barack Obama experienced a lonely, drawn-out crisis of faith—and now finds himself churchless as the whole world watches, Newsweek reports. His father was an atheist Muslim, his mother a Christian who turned secular, and Obama eventually embraced Chicago's Trinity United after years of church-based activism.... More »

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Barack Obama • Christianity • religion • spirituality • Obama 2008 • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ

 UK Psychics Foresee Trouble 

Mediums fear EU rule could expose them to suits over poorly received advice

Apr 18, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s mediums are consulting their crystal balls about a new EU law that might expose them to lawsuits, the Independent reports. A group of them marched up Downing Street today to deliver a 5,000-signature petition to No. 10, hoping to convince the government not to adopt the European... More »

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European Union • United Kingdom • occult • spirituality • mediums

'Geeky Hip' New Billy Graham Grabs Next Generation

Masses won over by Bell's 'Letterman' style

Dec 11, 07 5:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Bible-thumper Rob Bell wears geeky-hip glasses, once aspired to be David Letterman, and was momentarily poised for rock stardom, reports Time magazine. And he may be "one of the most important 21st Century Christian leaders," according to one biblical scholar. Nine years ago, Bell founded a nontraditional church... More »

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religious right • Christianity • Billy Graham • spirituality • Ira Glass • fundamentalism • David Letterman • evangelicals • Christianity Today • Rob Bell • Mars Hill

Mother Teresa Tormented by Long, Dark Night of The Soul

Nun suffered shocking 50-year spiritual crisis

Aug 24, 07 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even as she was selflessly ministering to the poor, Mother Teresa felt nothing of God’s presence, according to stunning personal letters published in a new book and this week’s TIME magazine. The nun wrote of a great “silence and emptiness” and the “pain and darkness” in... More »

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Catholic Church • religion • God • spirituality • Mother Teresa

Real Priest Urges Virtual Soul-Searching

Second Life fertile ground for new Catholic converts, Jesuit says

Jul 29, 07 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Jesuit academic is encouraging fellow believers to take the word of God to a new world—virtual reality. In a Roman Jesuit journal, Father Antonio Spadaro urges missionaries to preach the good life in Second Life, describing the online simulation game as packed with real souls to save, Reuters... More »

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Internet • religion • spirituality • Second Life • Antonio Spadaro • virtual reality • Jesuit

The Simple
Life in Jail:
Bad Food,
Fan Mail

'Let the time serve you,' advises celebucon

Jun 28, 07 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Still convinced she got a "raw deal," an almost Zen-like Paris Hilton spilled the beans yesterday about her 23-day stretch in stir, where the food "wasn't that tasty" and being strip-searched was the most humiliating experience of her life. Also especially tough: not being able to hug... More »

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Paris Hilton • God • spirituality • Larry King • heiress • jail • CNN

Solstice Shines at Stonehenge

Thousands gather to welcome longest day of the year

Jun 21, 07 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Spiritually inclined crowds converged on Stonehenge this morning to celebrate the summer solstice, greeting the dawn of the longest day of the year with dancing, drumming, and drinking. The mystical monument shone with floodlights and the glow of the rising sun as more than 20,000 druids, pagans, and other... More »

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England • spirituality • solstice • pagan • Stonehenge • festival • monument • druid

Hollywood Prays for Laughs from the Faithful

With 'Evan Almighty,' Universal skews pious
in comedy division

Jun 20, 07 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - God is returning to the big screen this Friday in Universal's Evan Almighty, a big-budget comedy aimed at the churchgoing. The LA TImes recalls that Hollywood used to balk at religiously-inflected films, but saw the light when Mel Gibson's spiritual blockbuster The Passion of the Christ raked in $370M in... More »

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Hollywood • Morgan Freeman • film • religion • God • Evan Almighty • comedy • church • Noah's Ark • spirituality • Universal Studios • Steve Carell • movies

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