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[Link] 'Can I hug your tree naked?': Tourists urged to respect Bali after social media controversies

Read: 9/5/2022 www.abc.net.au

It's known as the Island of the Gods, but that's lost on some Western influencers who like its picturesque temples and landscapes for risque social media content.

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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.

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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.

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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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[Link] An Oregon City Is Limiting How Often a Church Feeds the Homeless

Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An Oregon city just passed a new ordinance that would limit churches’ ability to serve free food to homeless people.

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[Link] For These Buddhist Monks, Sex Ed Starts With Safe Masturbation

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Sunshine pours in through the monastery classroom window as monks in crimson robes lock their gaze in rapt attention at the chalkboard. Their instructor smiles warmly and asks them what they know about the use of a condom.  

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[Link] My Cousin Baptized My Dead Relatives Into the Mormon Church

Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com

My cousin has been baptizing my dead family members into the Mormon Church. I wasn’t thrilled when I found out.  These baptisms are called “baptisms by proxy” or “baptisms for the dead,” and they’re pretty common in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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[Link] Taxpayer-funded aged care homes funnelled tens of millions into church coffers, ABC investigation finds

Read: 18/4/2021 www.abc.net.au

The homes include St Basil's in Melbourne, where 45 residents died in Australia's deadliest COVID outbreak. In the past eight years, St Basil's paid more than $22 million in rent and fees to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese while receiving federal government funding.

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