Join the prayer group in a new prayer?one very much needed in this time of war. Our current intention: “That grace may come to those who live by hate.” Hate is a sickness that drowns souls. It is also one of the greatest epidemics on earth, responsible for suffering beyond calculation. Prayer is to hate as water is to fire, so pray with us, and help quench this evil flame.

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While no crop circles have been found in Africa, there are mysterious “fairy circles” in Namibia and scientists want to know what causes them. So far, all their possible explanations have been disproved?so maybe it is fairies, after all?

Fairy circles are found in bare sandy soil only along the western coast of the Namib desert in southern Africa. They?re easy to spot because they stand out in the sparse vegetation of the desert. Researchers first noticed them in the 1970s, and thought they were caused by termites, radioactive soil or toxic debris left in the soil by the poisonous milkbush plant. But Andy Coghlan writes in New Scientist that after much research, scientists have dismissed these theories. Botanist Gretel van Rooyen says, “They still remain a mystery.” read more

Two miraculous signs have appeared from two different religions in two separate places?Pittsburgh and Palestine. In the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Pennsylvania, a figure of Jesus has begun oozing a colorless, odorless oil. In Palestine, the name of “Allah” has appeared on the side of a sheep.

In The Morning Call, 0,3556131.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed,Dan Sheehan quotes Maria Varvarelis, the wife of the pastor of St. Nicholas, as saying, ”What message is it trying to send us? Sometimes a little sign like this makes you nervous, because you don’t know what might happen. But we are excited about it.”
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The authenticity of the Shroud of Turin has been debated for centuries. 1998 carbon-dating on the bacteria on the cloth showed it was created between 1260 and 1390, making it a Medieval forgery. Other experts say the bacteria comes from the hands of people who handled the shroud during that period. Now Swedish textile expert Mechthild Flury-Lemberg says, “There have been attempts to date the shroud from looking at the age of the material, but the style of sewing is the biggest clue. It belongs firmly to a style seen in the first century AD or before.”
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