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Injudicious Judges: In Dhanbad, India, Judge Sunil Kumar Singh has been trying to settle a 20-year-old land dispute involving temples of the Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman and has become impatient, according to a December BBC News dispatch from Patna. One priest claims the land belongs to him, but most locals say the temples own it, and Judge Singh, exasperated, recently placed ads in local newspapers asking Ram and Hanuman to come to court personally and address the issue.

Port St. Lucie, Fla., November (image of Jesus on a pancake);

It's the "holy grail" of beers, said a Boston pub manager, but, still, only 60,000 cases a year of Westvleteren are brewed because the Belgian Trappist monks with the centuries-old recipe refuse to expand their business (and even get on the phone to harass black-marketers). Westvleteren is sold only at the monastery gate, by appointment, with a two-case-a-month limit, at a price that's reasonable for retail beer, but anyone who gets it from a re-seller will pay 10 times that much. Producing more, said Brother Joris, to a Wall Street Journal reporter in November, "would interfere with our job of being a monk." Furthermore, said Brother Joris, referencing the Bible, "(I)f you can't have it, possibly you do not really need it."

More than 5,000 Christians have joined the Hollywood Prayer Network to pray anonymously for the spiritual transformation of certain troubled celebrities, according to a November Chicago Sun-Times report. An Incognito Prayer Network, whose members wear "90028" bracelets with Hollywood's Zip Code, will even assign celebrities to members in the event the member has not yet been touched. Even in the face of criticism of the project's fatuousness, members stand firm: Said one, "I don't know if I could turn off this compassion that I feel

Officials of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Tex., initially agreed to host the annual multi- denominational Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Thanksgiving celebration last year but abruptly canceled when they came to realize that Muslims might actually pray there. Under criticism, the Church said that it "hopes" the religious community "will . . . be tolerant of our church's beliefs" that necessitated the decision.

In Russia, at least two eccentric Christian sects are in the news: Thirty members of a cult devoted to a mesmerizing, diagnosed schizophrenic, Pyotr Kuznetsov, have holed up in a cave in the Penza region since November 7th, awaiting the end of the world in May 2008 (though Kuznetsov has asked them publicly to come out). And a group in the Nizhny Novgorod region worships outgoing president Vladimir Putin as the incarnation of the Apostle Paul and King Solomon. "We didn't choose Putin," said one devotee. . . . God himself has chosen him!"