A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
Muslims pray five times a day, [...]

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An Italian film showing Jesus Christ drinking Coca-Cola sparked such strong protest from the soft-drinks giant that it blocked the film’s Easter weekend premiere, the film makers said.
The film “7 km from Jerusalem” is about an Italian advertising executive who is soul searching after losing his job and marriage. He flies to Jerusalem, where he [...]

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A Saudi man lost a bit of his nose in a joint assault by his two wives after he jokingly threatened to marry a third woman.
Judaie Ibn Salem had thought his threat would help resolve an argument over dividing up his house.
“I swore that I would do it because … they were impolite and that’s [...]

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A religious order in Spain has banned two women from carrying shrines during Easter week to prevent any “uncomfortable” brush with the opposite sex under cover of the massive floats.
In towns and cities across Spain each Easter, dozens of people dressed in religious tunics and pointed wizard-like hoods carry the wood and metal floats topped [...]

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk who applied to join Sri Lanka’s police force and carry a gun has been turned down — because he wouldn’t give up his saffron robes.
The monk applied for a job as assistant superintendent of police, a rank to which sidearms are issued. It was not immediately clear [...]

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Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain — but now his local town council says it’s time to recycle.A quirky eccentric ever eager to spread a little happiness, he has a website offering to print out people’s innermost secrets, pop them in [...]

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An Indian woman, despairing over her lover’s accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
“It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow,” K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in the town [...]

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Most people who call the Legislative Information Center at the state Capitol are looking for their district’s lawmakers, not advice on the afterlife. But that’s what they get if they dial the number for the center listed in the 2007 legislative directory.
The helpful 78-page booklet includes information on all 105 lawmakers in the Idaho House [...]

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