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Global warming could submerge three large Indian cities Date: December 8 2003 Global warming could submerge three of India's biggest cities beneath the sea by 2020 unless the crisis was brought under control, an Indian scientist warned yesterday. "If the warming continues, there will be about half to one metre increase in sea level by 2020 and cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras will be completely submerged," said Rajiv Nigam, a scientist with the Geological Oceanography Division in the western Indian state of Goa. He said a one-metre rise in sea level could cause five trillion rupees ($A147.24 billion) worth...

FOREWORD The present study is concerned with the complex phenomenon of “New Age” which is influencing many aspects of contemporary culture. The study is a provisional report. It is the fruit of the common reflection of the Working Group on New Religious Movements, composed of staff members of different dicasteries of the Holy See: the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Interreligious Dialogue (which are the principal redactors for this project), the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. These reflections are offered primarily to those engaged in pastoral work so that they...

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK 'Pagan god' sneaked in California budget State taxpayers set to finance Quetzalcoatl AIDS memorial Posted: July 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Opponents of an AIDS memorial designed in the form of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl thought they had scored a victory when California Assembly members removed a line from the state budget that reappropriated $400,000 for the project. Quetzalcoatl But through last-minute maneuvers, backers of the controversial plan managed to set aside the taxpayer money by shifting the project from the budget bill, passed Tuesday, to a trailer bill where...

Rome's Chief Exorcist Warns Parents Against Harry Potter NEW YORK, Jan 2, 02 (LSN.ca) - In early December, Rome's official exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, warned parents against the Harry Potter book series. The priest, who is also the president of the International Association of Exorcists, said Satan is behind the works. In an interview with the Italian ANSA news agency, Father Amorth said, "Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil." The exorcist, with his decades of experience in directly combating evil, explained that J.K. Rowling's books contain innumerable positive references to magic, "the...

The Miami blue butterfly hovers near extinction, a victim of hurricanes, mosquitoes, and troglodyte developers. Environmentalists weep and liberals blame the Bush administrations, presidential and gubernatorial. These same butterfly mourners form a blockade against the teaching of Creationism because evolution is the origin of species. The liberal mind has tangled ganglia and mitochondria that prevent short-circuits for philosophical inconsistencies. They will not acknowledge that evolution, by its very definition, demands extinction. Liberal brains are hotwired so that laws and order don't interfere with desires. With the Lott expulsion, conservatives use megawatt capacity trying to glean the liberal rules of play....

Date: 2003-01-29 Document on New Age Is Due Out VATICAN CITY, JAN. 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican plans to publish a document on the New Age movement next week. "Jesus Christ Carrier of Living Water: A Christian Reflection on the New Age" was written by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Vatican Press will publish it Monday. Cardinal Paul Poupard and Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, presidents of the pontifical councils for culture and for interreligious dialogue, respectively, will help present the document to the press. For now, the document will be published in English, Italian...

GLOBAL EARTH TRUSTEE AGENDA for the NEW MILLENNIUM By John McConnell - The Founder of Earth Day Introduction Back in 1933 Albert Schweitzer, a world renowned scholar, wrote that "the world is inexplicably mysterious and full of suffering." The human race has a long history of violence - war, hate and injustice. But in the midst of all this chaos and violence we find some people replacing conflict with cooperation, and fear with faith finding a common cause and cooperating for mutual benefit. In the human heart hope springs eternal. "Every time I hear a new-born baby cry, or touch...