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Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has joined with Human Rights Watch to denounce the new Muslim 2-child limit ordered in certain provinces in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The restrictions effect the Rakhine state in Western Myanmar were there have been clashes between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya families. Sectarian violence erupted in two Rakhine townships in the past year. Local provincial leader, Win Myaing, told the AFP that the birth rate of Muslims has been high, also resulting in a crackdown to enforce monogamy laws in Rakhine. But President Thein Sein is coming under fire for the unrest, which claims at least 200 dead and thousands displaced as refugees. Another watchdog and relief group, the Arakan Project, is also keeping a close eye on the violence. Aside from problems caused by citizens of Myanmar, there has also been a large influx of refugees from Bangladesh into the western provinces.

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Now that the two Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, have either been killed or captured, it is time to look at the how and why these two brothers went from being Chechen refugees to Islamic terrorists. Both were born in Kyrgzstan but the family later moved to the Muslim republic of Dagestan, along the southern border of Chechnya. In 2002, the family, or at least Dzhokhar and his mother, moved to the United States, granted political asylum by our State Department. The story of Tamerlan is more unclear. He may have arrived with his other family members to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2002, or possibly later in 2004. Either way, Tamerlan returned to Dagestan at some point early on. He later returned there in the spring of 2012 and was out of the United States until mid-August of last year.

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While most Christians attended church services heard messages of love and redemption on Easter Sunday, 2013, the Obama family celebrated at the church of hate. Actually, it was the St. John′s Episcopal Church, also known as the Church of Presidents. Pastor Rev. Luis Leon delivered a diatribe condemning Conservative Christians, accusing them of backwards thinking. ″it drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back… for blacks to be in the back of the bus… for women to be back in the kitchen… for gays to be back in the closet… for immigrants to be back on their side of the border.″ Obama seemed pleased with the sermon, smiling as he left the church, thanking Rev. Leon and shaking his hand. Would Obama shake hands with Jesus Christ if he had the chance?

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Happy Easter Sunday 2013! Today, Christians from all around the world will celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. A triumph over death and original sin. An important day for religion, faith and belief. But not everyone agrees. Aside from those of other religions, we also have those who choose not to believe in God at all. Secular Humanists like to say that science has displaced religion. That reason trumps belief, logic over faith. So are science and religion really so irreconcilable?

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Florida Atlantic University has issued a Jesus stomping apology to Ryan Rotela, the student who refused to stomp on the name of Jesus Christ. Governor Rick Scott has ordered an investigation into the matter which was started by Professor Deandre Poole, who is also the Vice Chair for the Democrat Party in West Palm Beach. Prof. Poole teaches a course in Intercultural Communications at FAU′s Boca Raton campus. The exercise was from a textbook, ″Intercultural Communications: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition″, which had students write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper, then place it on the ground and stomp on it with your feet. Somehow, this act is suppose to encourage discourse and add knowledge. All it really demonstrates is how fouled up our education system is!

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A fresh brouhaha has erupted over the Obama Satan look-alike seen this past Sunday on The Bible mini-series aired on The History Channel. Moroccan actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni portrayed Satan during the latter part of the third episode as Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and nights in the wilderness. Twitter and other social media went wild over the resemblance between Barack Hussein Obama and the Satan character. Even Glenn Beck had fun with this one! Naturally, the serie′s producers, Mark Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey, said it was not their intention to have Satan look like Obama. What do you think?

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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is now Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope to be elected by the College of Cardinals. He is also the first Pope born in Latin America, hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was archbishop. The Papal Conclave 2013 elected him after five ballots with the white smoke from the roof of the Sistine Chapel signaling to the world that Vatican City has a new leader. Already he is being called ′The People′s Pope′ due to his humble lifestyle, shunning the trappings of office. As Cardinal Bergoglio, he opted to live in a small apartment instead of the archbishop′s palace and ride a public bus to work rather than use a private limo. As it turns out, Pope Francis was the runner up during the last Papal Conclave in 2005 which elected Pope Benedict XVI. So what will the new Pope mean to the world′s 1.2 Billion Catholics?

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The eyes of some one billion-plus Catholics are on the Sistine Chapel as the papal election begins today with Conclave 2013 holding its first vote. Now that the 115 members of the College of Cardinals are gathered in Vatican City, the process for selecting a replacement for the now retired Pope Emeritus Benedict VXI will start. Cardinal Angelo Sodano is calling for unity for the Church, which has had some rough times over the recent decades. An early front runner, according to InTrade, is Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan. The Papal Conclave held their traditional mass this morning and we could have a new pope should one get the necessary 2/3rds plus 1 ballots in the first vote to be held this afternoon. Thousands of Catholics and the curious are watching the roof of the Sistine Chapel for the signal of either black smoke, meaning no one won, or white smoke announcing that a new pope has been elected.

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