| September 11, 2008 | - An Italian prosecutor sought to charge actress Sabrina Guzzanti with “offending the honor of the sacred and inviolable person” of Pope Benedict XVI; Guzzanti had suggested that “within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be--in Hell, tormented by great big gay
devils, and very active ones, not passive ones.”
| Source:
The Times of London
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| July 14, 2007 | - Police recovered a seven-week-old boy from the middle of a road in Ohio, where his naked mother had placed him in order to appease Satan.
| Source:
WLWT
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| March 5, 2007 | -
Ann Coulter called former Senator John Edwards a faggot.
| Source:
Fox News
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| March 1, 2007 | -
Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
| Source 1:
PrezVid
Source 2:
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez objected to the smell of sulfur in the U.N.'s General Assembly hall, and offered to relocate the U.N.'s headquarters to Caracas.
| Source 1:
New York times
Source 2:
Fox News
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| April 9, 2006 | - Many scientists said that it was too late to stop climate change and that the earth was "past the point of no return." "We are looking for the devil," said a geochemist, "and we have found ourselves."
| Source 1:
The Stamford Advocate
Source 2:
Jurnalo.com
Source 3:
The Connecticut Post
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| March 26, 2006 | - In San Francisco over 25,000 teenagers gathered at AT&T Park for an evangelical Christian rally. "The devil's a pimp," said one 18-year-old attendee. "Don't be his ho."
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| January 12, 2006 | - A Minnesota man named Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey, who claims to be a vampire, announced that he would run for governor and promised that if elected he would personally impale murderers and child molesters. “I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus,” he explained.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 29, 2005 | - In New Jersey, State Assemblyman Craig Stanley was fighting to rename the Devils hockey team. “The merchandise, the paraphernalia,” he said, “is based on the actual demonic devil.”
| Source:
AP
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 6, 2005 | - A seventeen-year-old woman was thrown out of her village in India after her stomach swelled up; villagers believed she was carrying the “devil's child,” but the swelling turned out to be a 33-pound tumor the size of five fetuses.
| Source:
News24.com
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| May 4, 2005 | - A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles, a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast, contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
| Source:
National Post
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| March 18, 2005 | -
Satan's face appeared on a turtle's shell in Indiana.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| January 21, 2005 | -
Norwegians were shocked to see the president and his family repeatedly give the University of Texas "hook 'em, 'horns" sign, which they interpreted as a salute to Satan, during the festivities, and sign-language users pointed out that the sign means "bullshit."
| Source 1:
New York Daily News
Source 2:
AP
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Satanists were upset to learn that the Regina Apostolorum, a Vatican university, was going to offer courses in Satanism and exorcism. The church, said a prominent Satanist, “has the blood of countless millions on its bejeweled fingers.”
| Source:
Telegraph.co.uk
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| October 24, 2004 | - The British Armed Forces officially recognized its first Satanist, a sailor on the HMS Cumberland who will now be permitted to perform Satanic rituals on board.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 29, 2003 | -
An Iranian fatwa warned that the Great Satan “will incite lust by allowing easy access to stimulating satellite channels.”
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| April 22, 2003 | -
Investigators revealed that a retired banker living in Switzerland spent 10 years helping Saddam Hussein hide millions of dollars via a Bahamas bank account under the name of Satan.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe in the devil, but only 48 percent believe that God created the universe; 28 percent believe in evolution.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Kentucky banned prison inmates from holding formal Satanic worship services, which previously had been listed on the official prison religious-services calendar.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Police in Togo raided a church whose pastor was suspected of Satanism, and found a panther's pelt, hyena paws, vulture eggs, and a hunchback's hump.
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| July 17, 2001 | -
Police in Braintree, Massachusetts, suspected devil worship after they searched a man's apartment and found a fetus in a jar on a dresser next to a skull, a brain, and some pot.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police near Savannah, Georgia, raided the homes of 11 middle-school
children and discovered firearms, satanic and Nazi posters, and bomb recipes, but no bombs.
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