CHRISTIANS PROTEST AT POTRAYAL OF JESUS AS A TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN

More than 300 Christian protesters demonstrated in the centre of Glasgow last night against a publicly funded play that portrays Jesus as a transsexual woman.
The demonstrators, who waved placards and sang hymns and gospel songs, blocked Chisholm Street for about two hours from 6.30pm as they held a candlelit vigil outside the Tron Theatre where Jesus, Queen of Heaven will run until Saturday.
A ecumenical congregation including Catholics and evangelical Christians voiced their disapproval of the show, which presents Christ as a man who wants to become a woman.
One placard said: “Jesus, King of Kings, Not Queen of Heaven”.
Another stated: “God: My Son Is Not A Pervert”.
The production is part of the Glasgay! arts festival, Scotland’s annual celebration of homo­sexual culture, which receives funding from Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Arts Council.
The Christian Institute, which is opposed to equality for gay people, has said the festival is “further proof of an agenda to use taxpayers’ money to fund assaults on Christian values.”
Protesters said last night that they did not feel their demonstration would give more publicity to the show they wanted banned.
Jack Bell, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Polmadie, said: “We are here to protest against the blasphemy of this play.”
Another demonstrator, Peter Campbell of St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Greenock, said: “I am here to say enough is enough. I feel I have to do something because I don’t feel this is right and I have to stand up for the cause of Jesus.”
Publicity material for the play shows the writer and lead performer of the piece – transsexual Jo (formerly John) Clifford – posing as Christ with crucifixion wounds and a halo.

READER'S DIGEST AND RICK WARREN ENDS MAGAZINE VENTURE

Less than a year after starting a hybrid magazine and paid membership organization, the Rev. Rick Warren and the Reader’s Digest Association said Wednesday that they were pulling the plug.
Their plan was to capitalize on Mr. Warren’s best-selling books, like “The Purpose Driven Life,” to create a group patterned on his calls to Christian evangelism and charitable works.
They sold $29 annual memberships to Purpose Driven Connection, built around local chapters and online social networking tools. Members received a quarterly magazine of the same name — edited by Mr. Warren — DVDs and study guides. The magazine were also sold through retailers.
But their timing could not have been worse; the project began near the worst of the financial crisis, in the depths of the recession.
“The numbers for the membership were quite disappointing,” said William K. Adler, a spokesman for the Reader’s Digest Association. The partners declined to release sales figures for the memberships or the magazine.
They plan to keep operating the organization’s Web site, purposedriven.com, which has been free.
“Our biggest discovery was learning that people prefer reading our content online rather than in print, because it is more convenient and accessible,” Mr. Warren said in a statement.
The fourth and last issue of the magazine will be published this month. The Reader’s Digest Association said it had just one employee who worked on it full time, Frank Lalli, the editorial director, who recently left the association.
The company filed for bankruptcy protection in August under a plan that would make its lenders its majority owners, while reducing its $2.2 billion in debt to $550 million.

DRUG LORD PABLO ESCOBAR BURNT $2 MILLION TO KEEP HIS DAUGHTER WARM FOR A SINGLE NIGHT !

Drug lord Pablo Escobar burnt cash worth Rs 9 crore to keep his daughter warm and cook food, during a night on the run, his son saysColombian drug lord Pablo Escobar burnt $2 million (Rs 9.4 crore) to keep his daughter warm during a single night on the run, it has emerged. The infamous cocaine baron is said to have lit a bonfire using wads of US dollars at a mountain hideout while he was being hunted by authorities.
Terror: Escobar's cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine marketHis son, Sebastian Marroqui­n, who has changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, claimed his father burnt the notes when he realised his daughter Manuela was suffering from hypothermia.

Escobar's son, who moved with his family to Argentina after his father's death 15 years ago, also told the Colombian magazine Don Juan that the security-mad billionaire bought his own taxi firm to find out when outsiders arrived in their native Medellin.He also moved his family every 48 hours between 15 hideaways he had all over the city.

He even blindfolded them before each move so that they could never work out the whereabouts of each house and give the locations to torturers if they were captured.Escobar, head of the infamous Medellin Cartel, was shot dead in 1993 as he tried to escape police.Rich & PowerfulAt the height of his power in 1989, he was ranked the seventh richest man in the world by Forbes magazine with an estimated £18 billion (Rs 85,000 crore) fortune, while his Medellin cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market.