Back in 1956, before it was illegal to read the Bible in school or have an opening prayer before class started, busloads of American kids excitedly went on field trips to their local theater to see Cecil B. DeMille’s epic movie “The Ten Commandments.” “It’s hard to believe,” writes the Kansas City Star newspaper’s movie reviewer…

Insurance customers in California should thank God for David Axene. A scheduled 39 percent rate hike was averted by the mathematician who from his hospital bed discovered a major insurer had made serious errors in predicting its costs. The 60-year-old will tell you candidly that he couldn’t have done it without God’s help. “David Axene ,” writes Duke Helfand of the…

A human rights group in the African nation of Malawi has secured a $71,000 grant from the Royal Norwegian Embassy to launch a study which will address the issues of witchcraft-based violence on children, women and the elderly. “The project, which is currently in progress, is in the form of a study aimed at assessing the extent…

Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed he carried out Friday’s bombing and murder spree at a youth camp — and published a 1,500-page “manifesto” on the internet before launching the bloodbath — faces a maximum prison sentence of 21 years. The death toll stood at 93 Sunday for the explosion in downtown Oslo and the shootings at a…

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