Rodriguez
Rodriguez or Rodrigues , island (1996 est. pop. 34,883), 42 sq mi (109 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, c.350 mi (560 km) E of Mauritius , of which it is a dependency. One of the Mascarene Islands , it is surrounded by coral reef. Port Mathurin is the chief town. Most of the inhabitants are of African descent; some persons are of European, Indian, and Chinese descent. The population is largely French speaking and Roman Catholic. The main occupations are subsistence farming and fishing. Rodriguez was discovered in 1645 by the Portuguese, was briefly occupied (1691-93) by the Dutch, and was colonized (18th cent.) by the French from Mauritius. Britain took the island in 1810 and administered it as part of Mauritius, which became independent in 1968.
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Suburb board votes to bar Jesus film - sight unseen
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/21/1988; ; 568 words
; ...film "the most reverent cinematic production I have ever witnessed." According to Thompson, a dream sequence during the crucifixion that depicts Jesus and Mary Magdalene making love "is part of his last temptation," which is overcome.
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Canada: Jobs bars 3G Jesus Phone sales at Canuck Apple Stores.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 7/9/2008; 610 words
; Byline: ismail05 On Friday, the 3G Jesus Phone makes its debut in 22 countries across...monthly service plans for the reborn Jesus Phone start at $60 Canadian a month for...by diverting large shipments of Canadian Jesus Phones to Europe. Word is that the Canadian...
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Belief Behind Bars: A Muscular 'Jesus'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; Round House's "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" is a superior...dramatic portraitist, Tennessee Williams; "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" puts you in mind...The rendering of the prisoners in "Jesus," Escamilla's comically misguided Angel...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS; BISHOP SAYS JESUS CAN "BRIGHTEN THE DARK CORNERS' OF LIVES.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 12/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...Here they had a child, a child born in a stable. "This Jesus is able to brighten the dark corners of our own lives," Moynihan...gets out of jail. "I've had plenty of Christmases behind bars," said Buffington. "That's nothing I'm particularly...
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He's HIV, and positive; A United Methodist minister who is gay and has lived with HIV for 18 years spends night after night in a dark and noisy Minneapolis bar bringing the love of Jesus to gays, lesbians and transgendered people.(NEWS)(FAITH & VALUES)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...background and knew the Bible well. "One night he came into the bar and grabbed me and pulled me aside to a quiet corner. `I just...We talked for a long time and were the last two out of the bar that night. Then he turned to me and said, `Tim, does God...
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Jesus' Bar Mitzvah.(This Way Out)(Cartoon)
Magazine article from: Esquire; 3/1/2006; ; 435 words
; Ouch. Could that robe be any more 70 B.C.? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dad paid more than a million shekels for famous celebreties to make an appearance. Me with the poet Ovid, the giant Goliath, and a member of Aerosmith! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We hired out-of-work actors to dress as lepers and hand
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Grit & Gospel; Lowell Lundstrom set out to be a country singer, but changed his tune to gospel music because he couldn't picture Jesus in a bar band. Now, after 40 years as a traveling guitar-pickin' evangelist, he's settling in the Twin Cities.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...gospel band and down-home preaching. "Give your heart to Jesus," he often tells audiences. "Try him for six months. If...near-fatal car accidents, Lundstrom surrendered his heart to Jesus on a spring night in Connie's little Dakota church. It wasn...
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Nativity Jesus ends up in a bar
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/10/1998; 380 words
; ...BELLEVILLE, Ill. The police found Jesus at a bar and grill. "We were just borrowing...was charged with taking the baby Jesus figurine from a nativity display...like, `Hey, let's take baby Jesus out for a drink and see if he could...
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Court Bars School From Displaying Portrait of Jesus
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/2/1995; ; 583 words
; ...Michigan school district was rebuffed Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court in its plea for permission to display a painting of Jesus Christ. Without comment, the justices unanimously let stand lower court rulings against Bloomingdale High School, where the...
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Memorable memoirs.(Jesus Land: A memoir)(The Tender Bar)(The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky)(The Glass Castle)(Father Joe)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Teacher Librarian; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Grades 9-12 Jesus land: A memoir, Julia Scheeres. Counterpoint Press, 2005. $23.00...Republic, this startling memoir takes an unexpected turn. The tender bar. J. R. Moehringer. Hyperion, 2005. $23.95. 1-401-30064...
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Bar-jesus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bar-jesus , called Elymas , in the New Testament, Jewish sorcerer at Paphos who tried to divert a prospective Christian convert and was cursed with blindness.
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Exorcism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...September 2000, Reverend James Le Bar, an exorcist for the Archdiocese...the apostolic commission that Jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. –...demons is an integral part of Jesus' ministry and it is an important...the spirit, 'In the name of Jesus Christ, I order you to leave...
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Shroud of Turin
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...transformation undergone by Jesus at the moment of his Resurrection...scorched. The gospel accounts of Jesus' Crucifixion state that he...beating completed completed, Jesus was marched through the streets...was nailed to its horizontal bar at the place of execution...
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Son of Man
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...common phrase used on the lips of Jesus frequently in all the gospels...curious translation of the Aramaic bar nasha (= in Hebrew ben adam...it has been suggested that Jesus was not referring to himself...sacred to the utterances of Jesus himself. Other scholars have...
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Messiah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...messiahs emerged, including Jesus (as interpreted after his...in Josephus ), and Simeon Bar Kokhba (see MESSIANIC MOVEMENTS...early date the followers of Jesus were marked out as those who believed that Jesus was the promised messiah...
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