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Honeymoon package tour
SEOUL. One hundred couples who were married during last week's unification church mass wedding are on a six day honeymoon package tour of North Korea, a church official said. Tuesday reports AFP.
The group plans to visit the birthplace of the church's founder, the Reverend Moon Sun-Myung, at the northwestern city of Ciionju. as well as Pyongyang. Wonsan port and the Diamond Mountain tourist area.
The church spokesman said the couples were from 18 countries, including Britain. France. Germany. Japan and the United States, but that no South Koreans were on the tour.
Grant divorce or face jail
JERUSALEM: Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives divorces could soon face serious criminal charges. Israel television reported Monday, reports AP.
Uzi Baram. Acting Minister for Religious Affairs. made the promise while addressing a group of "agunot". or abandoned wives, demonstrating outside his ministry here Monday.
According to Jewish religious law. which governs marriages and divorce in Israel, agunot may not remarry until their husbands agree to divorce them. Any children they have out of wedlock are considered "mamzerim." or bastards, and their descendants are excommunicated for ten generations.
Tm not for reviving the old system, where recalcitrant husbands were beaten until they shouted 'I give in I. ' Baram told tile agency, referring to ancient method of persuasion."
'But In. modem times there arc effective ways of forcing a man to give ai divorce." he said. "Like revoking his driver's license."
It sounds like bad movie plot
HARDWICK. Ga: It sounds like a bad movie plot. Women Inmates claim rape, prostitution, coerced abortions, sex for favours, reports AP
But this is not exploitive fiction, it is sordid fact.
At least 70 women have said they were abused by guards and other employees at the Georgian Women's Correctional Institution. Their attorney expects 30 more to tell thejr stories soon. Ten employees have been fired and criminal indictments are expected this fall.
The scandal in Hardwick a fenced compound of sand-colored concrete buildings tucked in the woods 100 miles (160 kilometers)'southeast of Atlanta "is the broadcast and the deepest scandal of this sort that anyone can find a record of." said Robert Cullen. Georgia Legal Services lawyer handling the case.
The prisoners are reluctant to discuss the charges with reporters. Details can be culled from six affidavits filed in US District Court in Macon.
"1 had no way out of the relationship once it began. He was very demanding of me." said one woman who allegedly first had sex with her prison supervisor In a bathroom during a lunch break the day she was assigned to his work detail.
She said the year-long affair Included oral sex, anal sex. sadomasochistic relations and fantasy role-playing.
Another said the state paid for an abortion she didn't want after she was impregnated by her supervisor.
Virgin Mary to appear?
COLD SPRING. Ky: Thousands of faithful gathered Monday outside a small-town church hoping there was some truth to a prediction that the Virgin Mary would appear in this northern Kentucky town, reports AP.
Several hundreds people celebrated a daytime Mass at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, then many settled back in anticipation of nightfall.
Late Monday. 4.000 people were in the church parking lot and another 1.500 were inside the church, listening to a sermon that was piped outside. Some people brought lawn chairs or sleeping bags to sit on.
"Some people seeing a miracle, some are awaiting a miracle and some are here to pray," said Jim Benton, a volunteer working with the church.
The parish priest, the Rev. Leroy Smith, reported two months ago that he had been told by a mystic from Ohio that his church would receive a visit from the Virgin Mary at midnight August 31.