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Papal visits tend to draw out all sorts of folks from the fringe. We saw it when he went to Africa, and when he came to the United States, too. It's happening now that he is the United Kingdom. I guess these groups figure it's one way of getting recognition and their names in the press - anything related to the Holy Father is bound to get some news coverage.Here's a story concerning one of the more bizarre groups, who've filed a lawsuit in the British courts against Pope Benedict XVI.European Raelian Movement sues Pope Benedict XVI LONDON, Sept. 13...

MONTREAL - The Raelian movement’s recent decision to revive an emblem of a swastika intertwined with the Star of David as its official symbol is a desperate effort to generate publicity, said the head of an organization that monitors cult-like and marginal groups. “It’s just another attempt to get media attention,” said Mike Kropveld, director of Info-Secte in Montreal. “My sense is they feel they haven’t gotten talked about in a long time, and Rael loves to be in the media eye,” Kropveld added, referring to Claude Vorhilon, the French-born founder of the Raelian movement who dubbed himself Rael. Kropveld...

MIAMI BEACH — De Void isn’t feeling particularly enlightened or spiritual on the way over here. A decent CD has just been totaled by a scratch and there’s a flash on the radio about a couple of washed-up Ba’ath Party scumbags confessing to the truck bombs that exterminated all those people in Baghdad last week. They probably weren’t tortured. But that ain’t it. The bad juju starts at the outskirts of Dade County. De Void never dug the Miami vibe and just like that there’s a squid-ink Hummer adhesed like a barnacle to De Void’s exhaust pipe and there’s some...

At least according to a Las Vegas woman who claims to be on the verge of the first cloning of a human. Brigitte Boisselier is part of a movement that believes human beings -- and the resurrection of Christ -- are the result of an alien cloning experiment. But more than just being a tenet of faith, the Raelian movement -- of which Boisselier is a bishop -- is trying to do with humankind what it believes its creators did in the first place. And if her views are seen as being on the fringe of a science already outside...

Who created mankind? According to some researchers, the answer lies with those who came from beyond the stars. The imagery of extra-terrestrial visitors who came in from other planets, and possibly even other galaxies, to seed the human race is a fascinating one, although highly speculative. Erich von Daniken, who popularised this theory with his book, Chariots of the Gods, believes that these visitors — termed as ancient astronauts — landed on Earth when the planet was still in its infancy. As part of their breeding experiments, they seeded the first human being and imparted them with the skills required...

A GROUP of glamour lesbians who believe the world was created by an alien civilisation 25,000 years ago have criticised the Catholic Church for being out of touch. The representatives of the Gay Raelian society yesterday staged a demonstration outside Parliament House to protest the Pope's arrival for World Youth Day next week. Raelian spokeswoman Eden Bates said it was an insult that the Pope would be welcomed into Australia when "our gorgeous, fantastic spiritual leader Rael wasn't even given the respect of a visa". "I'm not Catholic, I'm Raelian and I'd like to see police escorts for our beautiful...

Quebec Mandates Relativistic Ethical and Religious Education For All Students in Province Program includes positive presentation of homosexual families and requires children to question their own religious upbringing By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, October 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As of the beginning of the 2008 school year, all students in the province of Quebec whether in public school, private school or even homeschooled will be mandated to take a program on "Ethics and Religious Culture" which runs from grade one till the end of high school.  The program is completely relativistic and includes positive presentation of homosexual families and requires...

Rael to bestow "Honorary Priest" title to Ward Churchill for his essay the 60,000+ members of the Raelian Movement send Churchill their support Miami, Feb 10, 2005. Rael, leader of the International Raelian Movement (www.rael.org) has just given the "Honorary Priest" title to Ward Churchill (University of Colorado professor) for his essay which most of the US is decrying as insensitive or unpatriotic. Ricky Roehr (leader of the US Raelian Movement) is quoted: "Mr. Churchill is exactly right in what he wrote! If we are to have peace, we must take responsibility for our part in the violence and stop...

Justice Ministry officials said Thursday they were investigating a claim by an Israeli spokesman for a religious sect that the first human clone has been brought to Israel. In December, a company called Clonaid claimed it had performed the first successful cloning of a human, an infant it called Eve. The company has never delivered on a promise to present mother and child to DNA testing. The religious sect behind Clonaid, a group called the Raelians, believes life on Earth was started by space aliens. Clonaid never released information the whereabouts of the alleged clone. An Israeli spokesman for the...

Send in the Clones The Raelian cloning cult has a website http://subversions.com that is filled with anti-Israel material, including an online petition claiming that in Jenin, the Israelis "coldly executed over 1000 Palestinians, most of whom were women and children, and then buried them in the ruins to make it look as if it was an accidental death." The Raelians also claim:  "Furthermore, over 4,000 Palestinian prisoners are presently incarcerated in concentration camps and being interrogated under torture. There is even a project underway to cremate not only the rotting corpses but also those still in a coma, or unconscious due...

January 3, 2003Obscene Clone Falls: Who Made Who?   The negative reaction to human cloning has been so intense and so rapid, so driven by the mass media that I have noticed that the majority has already resolved that Clonaid’s claims of a cloned female are fraudulent. Unfortunately the ambush journalism that exists in the mainstream media has not given us a reason to even realize that there are some new revelations about Cloning if we just listen. Tonight we ask that you put your prejudice aside and listen to a representative of Clonaid, the group who claims to have...

The newspapers of America owe an apology to anybody who has ever seen Big Foot tromp through the woods. We also owe apologies to people who claim to have seen images of the Blessed Virgin that show up on the sides of mailboxes and UFOs. Normally, we in the ink-stained wretch business tend to ignore the Big Foot stories and the miraculous image stories and the UFO stories, but I guess we have entered a whole new phase of journalism. We have entered the cloning phase. And by newspapers, I'm talking about real newspapers, the kind that land with a...

CREATE ETERNAL LIFE Vorilhon, who describes himself as a prophet, told the Herald that he had distanced himself from Clonaid since its founding but expected the company to make money and to ultimately create eternal life. "It's a commercial company and her goal is to make as much money as possible, and I hope she will make as much money as possible," Vorilhon said of Boisselier. He said scientists may develop technology within 25 years to create a full-grown human clone in hours and to "upload" the contents of a person's brain into the clone. "It's a very beautiful step,...

Prosecutors in South Korea have seized documents from a biotechnology company linked to a controversial sect which claims to have created the world's first cloned baby. After raiding the offices of BioFusion Tech Inc. in the southern city of Daegu, officials questioned members of staff to see whether they had taken part in the cloning project. Cloning is not illegal in South Korea, but prosecutors may be investigating whether staff have been carrying out medical research without a licence. Last week, scientists from Clonaid - a US-based firm linked to the Raelian sect - said that they had helped a...

Posting for information and research purposes. I. Group Profile Name: International Raelian Religion Founder: Rael, formerly known as Claude Vorilhon Date of Birth: 1946 Birth Place: France Date Founded: 1973 History: Flashback to 1973 The Raelian tradition is unique among UFO groups in that it offers a creation story that ties it to the sacred books of the monotheistic traditions. The core idea is that the ancient Hebrew concept Elohim should have been translated as "those who came from the sky" rather than "God." The Elohim come from another planet and are responsible for the creation of life on this...

Rael, father of a science-oriented religious movement that espouses cloning, next to a model of the flying saucer he says he saw in 1973.Two years ago, a prosperous Israeli businessman was diagnosed with a terminal illness. The disease is atrophying his body so that, day by day, he is losing the ability to perform simple, routine functions. Concluding that a life dependent on others is not worth living, he stopped taking his medication. Fifty-eight years old and childless, he decided, when the end was near, that he wants to leave something of himself behind. He rapidly became obsessed with the...