Religion in the news

[chuck83]

Palantir CEO buys monastery in Old Snowmass for $120 million
 

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/palantir-alex-karp-snowmass-monastery/amp/

 

I mean if that’s the value? Why buy? Why not just get teeth and take worldwide! 😆

[chuck83]

Nicaragua bars tourists from bringing Bibles

https://aleteia.org/2025/12/20/nicaragua-bars-tourists-from-bringing-bibles/

 

Government likely wants to control translations I guess.

Edited December 22, 2025 by chuck83

[Doug]

In Sweden, a conservative family of Romanian descent would not allow their eldest daughter, 11 , to have a phone or wear make-up.

 

The daughter was upset about it.  She told the schoolmaster that she had been physically abused at home.

The authorities immediately took the girl and her younger sister, 10 , away from the home.

The girl who made the allegations almost immediately recanted and said she was never abused, she was just upset / angry at her parents.

The girls are in separate foster homes.  Not together.

 

An investigation cleared the parents of any guilt.

 

But, Sweden will not return the children to the home because they say the family are "religious extremists" due to that they attend church three times a week.  The government claims the family's church attendance and conservative lifestyle is evidence that the home environment is harmful to their "development".

 

This world is beyond crazy!!!

[Percy]

2 hours ago, Doug said:

The girl who made the allegations almost immediately recanted and said she was never abused, she was just upset / angry at her parents.

A very famous case in Canada is this one: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/murder-of-reena-virk

What it fails to mention, is that the daughter accused her father of molesting her. The police came to the home and handcuffed Manjit and took him to jail. He lost his job with the government and the charge against him was entered into several databases. Reena was gifted some $5,000 by the government and ended up at a non-witness relative. She was part of a girl-gang with the leader being Kelly Allard, who eventually murdered her. The gang used up her money and gave her the boot. She went to the police many months later and confessed to the police it was all made up, urged by her girl-gang "friends". She went home to her parents and told them she was going to face the girl-gang one last time. That was the night they murdered her. 

Manjit survived the horrible ordeal of police accepting ONE child accusing her father. If they spent some time investigating then this massive disaster could have been prevented. Manjit spent years trying to clear his name after a false charge, but that is the way governments work.

Sigh.

[GeordieGirl]

There is no emoji suitable and no words to explain how all these injustices make me feel. 

Edited 10 hours ago by GeordieGirl

[pnutts]

And the girl who murdered Rena is still not getting full parole.

Edited 8 hours ago by pnutts

[Percy]

3 hours ago, pnutts said:

And the girl who murdered Rena is still not getting full parole.

Manjit wrote a book about it all. I encouraged him to do an audio book about it, but I think he now wants to leave it behind him. https://www.amazon.ca/Reena-Fathers-Story-Manjit-Virk/dp/1894974514

A little side story. When Manjit was in India before 1979, his sister came to Canada and befriended Suman Pallan, part of the first Indian family here in Victoria. She told her brother in India about her and he excitedly came to Canada. One of our brothers got a study going with Manjit and he became our brother. Suman's father (not a brother) was not keen on the romance, as he wanted to marry his daughter off to a doctor from India, as he did with his first daughter. They eloped! In the end it worked out. haha. If you ever saw 'Fiddler on the Roof', the Pallan family could have made an Indian version. 

 

Manjit's sister didn't have it so good as her brother, as she got into a bad marriage, with her husband murdering her. He went into a Subway covered in blood, with their 6 year old boy. The police were called and the husband was arrested. Manjit and his wife adopted the boy, but not without much pain and suffering.