A teenage-girl just wanted to impress her mother by having the word "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters. After the tattoo was completed, the girl found out that the symbols meant "Friend from hell. " A local paper said Charlene Williams, 19, only discovered something was wrong with her tattoo when a passing Chinese woman shouted at her, "Evil, evil, very bad. "

Children in the U. S. could soon be playing with a talking Jesus toy, a bearded Moses, Daniel in the lion's den and other biblical figures, as company One2Believe convinced Wal-Mart to sell Bible-based toys to promote the Christian faith to children. David Socha, founder of One2believe, the company which manufactures the dolls said he is optimistic the demand for "God-honoring" toys will increase as children will be attracted to toys that focuses on Christian teachings and morality.

An apparently upper-caste principal of a primary school in the Bhandara district of Maharshtra, India had a new way to "purify" the school premises and children from a previously employed lower-caste teacher. The principal sprinkled cow's urine in the school premises and on students to "purify" them from lower-caste teacher's "evil spirit. " A startling reminder that caste consciousness is still prevalent in India after more than 50 years of independence.

A 62-year-old ex-felon who claims to be the second coming of Jesus Christ says he has as many as 1 million followers in 30 countries. Jose de Jesus, who is now living outside Houston, Texas, said he married twice, smokes and likes Scotch. ABC News quotes de Jesus as saying that he grew up in poverty, had a heroin addiction and spent nine months in prison for eight felony charges along the way. However, the man who claims to be Jesus says he never gets drunk just as the original Jesus.

A Romanian Orthodox priest and four nuns were sentenced to prison on Monday for their roles in the death of a 23-year-old nun in a crucifixion exorcism ritual in the cellar of a church. 23-year-old Sister Maricica Irina Conici died in June 2005 after spending three days tied to a cross with no food or water during an exorcism ritual designed to cleanse her of the evil spirits the priest and nuns believed possessed her. Conici survived several days without food or water, but died of dehydration, exhaustion and suffocation.