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Buddha Statue Discovered To Contain The Mummified Remains of A Monk From 1100AD

Buddha Statue Discovered To Contain The Mummified Remains of A Monk From 1100AD

VIA “visualnews.com” by Paul Caridad on February 20, 2015 You can’t judge a book by it’s cover and apparently the saying goes for statues too. For centuries it was thought that this Buddha statue is just that, but a recent CT scan reveals that it is actually the vessel for the mummified remains of Chinese […]

Obama Trying To Add Context To Speech, Facing Backlash Over Crusades

Obama Trying To Add Context To Speech, Facing Backlash Over Crusades

VIA “nytimes.com” by Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — President Obama personally added a reference to the Crusades in his speech this week at the National Prayer Breakfast, aides said, hoping to add context and nuance to his condemnation of Islamic terrorists by noting that people also “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” But […]