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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Closing Limbo, Sikhs Ill Treated, Gospel of Thomas an Early Gospel?

Wednesday November 30, 2005
Looks like the Catholic Church is giving school children one less uncomfortable questions to embarass sunday school teachers with...after years of sending the souls of unbaptised babies and pagan philosophers packing off to Limbo, the church has decided to shut it down. Apparently, it has not yet been decided where the babies went.

Are rumors of a 'silent birth' for Scientologists Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes premature?

Prisons in California have apparently not yet figured out that Sikhism is a religion, refusing to respect prisoners dietary requirements, dress requirements, and religious literature.

A controversial Christian evangelist in South Africa is in trouble after staging a "counter Halloween" paintball attack on trick-or-treaters.
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas has been dismissed by many over the years as theologically insignificant, but a new book argues that it may be on of Christianity's earliest gospels.

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