Peoples temple

The peoples temple resembled a cult in many different ways.

Jim Jones started off with a great idea of a new freedom and he seperated people from other and had an isolated group.

He changed the way people thought and it was a type of brain wash.
He was in control of the actions of many other people and he made crucial life decisions for them.

He also moved them to different isolated areas to be left alone an therefor no one from the out side world coudl do anything to affect their plans.

He eventually was found and and when people questioned him he guilted them into not saying anything negitive and he almost trapped these people.
It all turned into a mass suicide, which he called a revolutionary suicide but it killed over 900 people and they all did it for the cause, the one goal they had, which was the main reason it could be considered a cult.

Survey sees a drift away from religion in America

Religions are constantly seeing people leave to go to no religion.

 76% of people in America call themselves Christians now compared to the 86% in 1990. One in every 5 US adults chose not to identify a religious identity: 15% chose no religion and the other 5 % named one. 

This article talks about how religion is dropping off in the united states. People are choosing not to go to church and not to have a specific denomination. I think this is because people in some cases have pushed religion too far and people have just gave up on it.

 During this period though Christians did rise by 22 million. But their proportion dropped. 

Less than 70% believe ''definitely in a god'', with 12% believing in a "higher power but no personal god". Some 2.3 # say there is no god, while 10 % either don't know or don't think there is a way to know. 

Dalai Lama: Tibetans 'suffering' under China

The Dalai Lama said life for the Tibetans has been hell on earth for them under the Chinese rule. That 50 year span has brought horrid suffering to the land and people of Tibet. 

Beijing talks of his speech as a lie and ha he is just trying to slit Tibet from china. The Dalai Lamas thirty minute speech inn the foothills of of the Himalayas where he set up his headquarters in exile.

 

China killed hundreds of thousands of Tibetans. The Tibetans religion was near extinction when the exile of one hundred thousand  Tibetans to India is was allowed them to save their culture. 

There was a celebration tuesday celebrating the lives of those who had died from protecting their religion.  Even those who died Tibetans in Tibet live in constant fear because the Chinese authorities are constantly suspicious of them.

Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters

After an 18 year old iraqi womans husband was killed her family tried to sell her to a local brothel. There was a undercover woman posing a objedct for them to trade around. They found ut that they sell girls as young as 11 and 12 and they sell for 30000 to 2000 dollars. The trafficing of girls is not just local, but national, Syria, and Jordan are highly connected to this. No body knows the exact number to of been sold but they beleive it was to of started under the reign of Saddam.

That's where Mohammed's group first saw Atoor several years ago, at the Khadimiya Women's Prison in northern Baghdad. Now 18, Atoor married her 19-year-old sweetheart, a policeman called Bilal, when she was 15. Three months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold her older twin sisters. Frightened, she told a friend in the police force to raid her home and the nearby brothel. His unit did, and Atoor spent the next two years in prison. She was not charged with anything, but that's how long it took for her to come before a judge and be released. "I wanted to go to prison — I didn't want to be sold," she says. "I didn't think it would happen to me. My mother used to spoil me. Yes, she sold my sisters, but she regretted that. I thought that she loved me."

Abu Ghraib Blast: A Return to the Bad Old Days in Iraq?

Tuesdays attack was the second this week. Bringing back the old ways of fear in Baghdad. Suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt and motorcycle and killed28 people outside the Baghdad police Academy.

 Pope Benedict XVI will show solidarity with Jews and Muslims during his first papal trip to the Holy Land with visits to Jerusalem's Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, the papal envoy in Jerusalem said Tuesday. Benedict announced this week that he would visit in May. His presence could help ease the sometimes rocky relations between the Vatican and Israel, and between the Vatican and Muslims. It will be his first official visit to the region since he became pope in 2005. Archbishop Antonio Franco, the papal nuncio in Jerusalem, said visits to key Jewish and Muslim holy sites would be on the pope's agenda. The Dome of the Rock is one of Islam's most sacred shrines, and the nearby Western Wall is the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray. Benedict will also visit Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, meet with top Palestinian and Israeli leaders and make a stop in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. The pope will end his visit by celebrating Mass in Galilee — the area in northern Israel where Jesus lived and preached. The papal envoy said Benedict's tour will be a religious pilgrimage, not a political mission. Still, the visit could help mend strained relations between Israel and the Roman Catholic Church. Ties were rattled recently when Benedict tried to reinstate an excommunicated bishop who denied the Holocaust. Benedict condemned the bishop's remarks, spoke out against anti-Semitism and called off the reinstatement until the bishop satisfies his demands. The controversy came shortly after a senior Vatican Cardinal, Renato Martino, described the Gaza Strip as a "big concentration camp" during Israel's fierce military assault on the blockaded territory in January. The offensive was meant to halt rocket fire into Israel. The two sides also disagree over the legacy of the wartime pontiff Pius XII, who some historians say did not do everything in his power to prevent the Holocaust or limit its scope. Vatican-Muslim ties were strained by a 2006 speech in which Benedict linked Islam to violence. Amid angry reactions from the Muslim world, he expressed regret for any offense caused by his remarks. Local Christian officials said they expected at least 40,000 people to attend the Galilee Mass, which will take place on a hilltop outside the northern Israeli city of Nazareth. Palestinian Christians are a tiny, diminishing minority in the Holy Land, their community whittled away by low birthrates and emigration.