Noumenal News

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Top priests
of Cuba’s African-influenced Santeria religion issued their yearly
forecast yesterday, predicting that the island will enjoy a better
economy, but suffer more health problems in 2007.
Competing groups of Santeria
priests, or babalaos, gather every New Year’s Eve for religious
ceremonies that include chanting and animal sacrifices. Cubans eagerly
look forward to the so-called Letter of […]

Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as
a strange object “on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines”
- hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.

That’s according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of
Lephalale (Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter’s farm
just east of the town […]

On January 20, 2001, President George W. Bush during his inaugural
address twice referred to an angel that “rides in the whirlwind and
directs this storm.” His reference was credited to Virginia statesman
John Page who wrote to Thomas Jefferson after the Declaration of
Independence was signed, saying, “We know the race is not to the swift
nor the battle […]

The discovery of carvings on a snake-shaped rock along with
70,000-year-old spearheads nearby has dramatically pushed back the
earliest evidence for ritual behavior, or what could be called
religion. The finding, which researchers have yet to formally publish,
comes from a cave hidden in the Tsodilo Hills of Botswana, a mecca of
sorts for the local people, who call it […]

MEXICO CITY — Fidel Castro will be dead by May. Losing presidential
candidate-turned-protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will fade
into obscurity. The anti-immigration wall between the United States and
Mexico will not get built. And global warming will force everyone to
unite.

These were just some of more than a dozen predictions Mexico’s
self-proclaimed “Grand Warlock” issued Wednesday for 2007, […]

Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to
Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he’d
take his oath of office on the Koran — especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Yet
the holy book at tomorrow’s ceremony has an unassailably all-American
provenance. We’ve learned that the new congressman […]

The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness.
Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge
through a palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to
have had multiple encounters with the state’s most elusive creature.
They seek a half-man, half-simian, fully reeking legend known as the Skunk Ape.
A curious rustling draws them closer. Nervous […]

VIRGINIA BEACH - Religious broadcaster Pat
Robertson cited communications with God in predicting Tuesday that
horrific terrorism aimed at the United States will result in “mass
killing” during the second half of 2007.
“The Lord didn’t say nuclear, but I do
believe it’ll be something like that - that’ll be a mass killing,
possibly millions of people, major cities injured,” […]

Darlene Bishop, the nationally renowned evangelical preacher, begins
her book about how God cured the cancer afflicting one of her brothers
with a Biblical verse: “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,
and the Lord shall raise him up.”
The book, “Your Life
Follows Your Words,” is sold in the gift shop of Solid Rock Church, the
4,000-member […]