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 | The true Story of Monk burning himself for discrimination of Buddhists1963Ngo Dinh Diem's administration was a questionable one. In May 1963, amid the Vesak festivities, the Buddhists were disallowed from showing Buddhist banners refering to a direction that precludes the show of any non-administrative banners in the city of Hue, where a Catholic banner was shown in celebration of Diem's senior sibling's rise to minister. This expanded the agitation among Buddhists and regular people, and prompted challenges and exhibits for opportunity of religion, with huge numbers of them being murdered. Thich Quang Duc immolating himself by consuming himself alive to death amidst a bustling Saigon convergence was a piece of the challenges The demonstration of self-immolation not just set off the current political emergency in Tunisia... Read More |
 | The Chilling Exorcism of Anneliese Michel1952Anneliese came into the world a healthy baby girl on September 21, 1952. Growing up with her parents and her three sisters, Anneliese did not have a simple life. Her family was strict Catholic, flirting with some of the more intense elements of the religion. To the Michel family, the reformations of Vatican II were to be ignored; there was no simple atonement for sin, and one could not get by on atonement for their sins alone. Anneliese would spend the winters sleeping on cold wooden floors hoping that God would take her sacrifice as penance for drug addicts who had lost their faith. In 1969, while others her age were experimenting with drugs and lamenting the breakup of the Beatles, Anneliese would suffer her first seizure. Doctors would tell her family that... Read More |
 | Anneliese Michel Exorcism aka Emily Rose1976The true story behind “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” involves a young German girl named Anneliese Michel. The first person to recognize that Anneliese Michel was possessed by demons was an older woman accompanying the girl on a pilgrimage. She noticed that Anneliese would not walk past a certain image of Jesus, refused to drink water from a holy spring and smelled bad — hellishly bad. An exorcist in a nearby town examined Michel and returned a diagnosis of demonic possession. The bishop issued permission to perform the rite of exorcism according to the Roman ritual of 1614. Half a year and 67 rites of exorcism later, Anneliese Michel was dead at 23. Anneliese Michel did not die in the Middle Ages, but in 1976, in the small town of Klingenberg, in the heart... Read More |