Dressed in his traditional brown robe, sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.
But as guitarists around him grind out heavy notes, the long-white-bearded Capuchin, a former missionary in Ivory Coast, has no qualms bobbing his head and shouting lyrics about alcohol, sex, tobacco [...]
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Pope hits out at consumer culture also see ”Crimes of fashion”
Pope Benedict XVI has attacked popular culture and consumerism in a formal address to tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics.
The pontiff also warned that natural resources were being squandered, in the speech in Sydney, Australia.
The pope is visiting the [...]
Viking metal is a term used in reference to heavy metal music with a dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the life and times of Northern and Central Europeans prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia. The genre is closely associated with folk metal. It is still debated whether or not Viking metal can [...]
Yo Majesty is a Christian lesbian hip hop duo who are bitch-slapping stereotypes into submission.
Says Shunda K, andquote: My lyrics are so gay they will split your dick, endquote.
Song titles include: “We want some pussy, face down, ass up”.
Working with Brit producer David Alexander, Yo Majesty are laying down tracks for their debut album.
Sphere: Related [...]
St VALENTINE - A priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians. He became a convert and, although he is supposed to have restored the sight of the goaler’s blind daughter, he was clubbed to death (c. 270).
His day is 14 February, as is that of St. Valentine, bishop of Terni, who was [...]
Me. Zelda McCauley, vrou van die flam- bojante stigter van die Rhema-Bybelkerk in Randburg, het Vrydag by die kerk se hoof- kantoor ingestorm om haar besittings te verwyder.
Maar ’n dag later was daar ’n dramatiese ommeswaai toe haar man, past. Ray McCauley (57), ’n verklaring uitgereik het dat hulle versoen geraak het en hul egskeiding [...]
This man (on the left wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk YSL empire waist cocktail dress, accessorized with a 3-foot beaded peaked Galliano hat, and ruby slippers by Vivian Westwood, whilst clutching the staff that Charles Heston swung about in Moses) is worried that The Da Vinci Code might [...]
Christian hardcore (also known as Christcore) is a form of hardcore and metalcore music and a subgenre of punk rock and heavy metal, respectively, played by bands where the musicians promote Christian beliefs. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Many inside the Christian music scene view Christcore in a [...]
A second divorce seems imminent for Rhema Bible Church leader Pastor Ray McCauley, 57.
The widely publicised marriage between McCauley and his wife Zelda seems to have hit rock-bottom and the couple have separated.
In 2000, when he was going through a divorce from his first wife Lyndie, McCauley said he did not believe in divorce and [...]
