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Journalism of Courage
David readies for second coming
JERUSALEM: Christian millennialists who want a ringside seat for what they predict will be Christ8217;s return to Jerusalem on January 1, 2000, need only contact Brother David, who is already finding accommodation for them here. The bearded, 58-year-old American is renting apartments from Palestinians on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem so there will be enough places to stay for the flocks of faithful for Jesus8217; reappearance. Five million pilgrims and tourists are expected in the Holy Land for the celebrations marking 2000 years since the birth of Christ, but Brother David is thinking only about those coming to mark Jesus8217;s return and the end of the world. 8220;We are living in the last days before the return of Jesus Christ, 8221; David said without a hint of doubt.
God and gays
SYDNEY: About 50 homosexual Catholics intend testing Church protocol on Sunday when they line up to take communion from an archbishop who refused them the sacrament last year. Thegroup of gay men and women and their families and supporters said they would wear rainbow sashes at St Patrick8217;s cathedral proclaiming their sexuality as a quot;sacred gift.quot; Archbishop George Pell refused last year to give communion to three gay men, one of them a Catholic priest, because of their homosexuality. 8220;This is an act of prayer, not just a protest. We will come forward reverently, but refusing to be invisible any longer,8221; group spokesman Michael Kelly said. Conveners of the group have written letters for gay clergy to quot;come outquot;.
NASSAU BAHAMAS: Supermodel Cindy Crawford married her longtime friend Rande Gerber in the Bahamas, the Nassau Tribune newspaper reported today. 8220;It8217;s the wedding,8221; a security guard told a news photographer whom he stopped on Saturday from walking down Cabbage beach on Paradise Island, off Nassau. The guard said they had government permission to fence off the usually public beach in front of the exclusive ocean club resort, where Cindy usedto visit with her former husband, movie star Richard Gere. News leaked out Saturday night that Cindy was not only in the Bahamas but that she married her longtime friend Rande,8221; the Tribune said.
