The great Jewish Torah sage Hillel taught throughout Judea 2000 years ago, when Jesus was a young man. According to legend, a rumour had circulated that Hillel could teach the entire Torah while standing on one foot.

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When the child sex abuse scandal rocked the Philadelphia Archdiocese, a local District Attorney named 63 priests and two Cardinals with covering up the abuse.

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This spring, the Chinese government hosted a so-called World Buddhist Forum in Beijing, where they trotted out their version of the Tibetan spiritual leader, a 16-year-old boy named Gyaltsen Norbu. Meanwhile the real Panchen Lama, recognized by the exiled Dalai Lama in 1995, remains in the custody of the Chinese government.

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