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Morgan Freeman explores faith in ‘Story of God’

LOS ANGELES - During his career as an actor, Morgan Freeman has played the role of God. In real life, he claims to be “undeniably” a believer. Now, the Oscar winner has traveled more than 120,000 kilometers (more than 74,000 miles) and visited 30 cities to try to unravel mysteries of spirituality around the world. Is there a God? What about the devil? How do people experience it? What is behind the secrets of different faiths? Freeman told AFP that on this long journey he understood that religion, belief in a God, serves as “society’s glue.” “In almost every society, whatever the religion is the point is to keep the people together functioning as a unit,” he said.

The third season of “The Story of God,” which has six episodes, premieres March 5 on National Geographic. It sees Freeman spend time with “living goddesses” in Nepal; look at the supposed crown of thorns worn by Jesus in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris; meet a “medium” in Vietnam; and experience the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The season was put on hold after accusations of sexual harassment against the Oscar winner. But National Geographic opted to continue with the series after an investigation. Asked if he thought the accusations affected his reputation, or career, Freeman was firm. “No,” the 81-year-old actor replied dryly before ending the interview. (afp)

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Bombshell film reignites Michael Jackson abuse firestorm

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India, Pakistan exchange heavy border fire

NEW YORK - An unflinching new documentary on pedophilia accusations against Michael Jackson has shattered the glittering veneer around the late King of Pop, presenting in lurid detail the stories of two men who say he sexually abused them for years as minors. “Leaving Neverland,” a fourhour film by British director Dan Reed, is considered so potentially devastating that counseling was made available at its Sundance Film Festival premiere in January. US cable network HBO will air it in two parts, starting Sunday. Reed said he tried to include “sexual detail in a very measured way, so it wasn’t done for shock value.” “We tried to make it graphic enough to be eye-opening and for people to be confronted with what it means for a little child to be seduced and raped by an adult pedophile,” Reed told AFP. “Of course it’s shocking. It’s a very serious crime. And it shouldn’t be glossed over.” It’s not the first public airing of abuse claims against Jackson but the release marks the scandal’s first major explosion since his fatal overdose at age 50, almost 10 years ago. The documentary centers on James Safechuck, 41, and Wade Robson, 36, who recount separate but consistent accounts of how their idol molested them as boys.

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In this file photo taken on June 03, 2005, Michael Jackson waves as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, California. Both describe the childlike Jackson wooing them: inviting them into his fairytale existence, gaining their families’ trust and manipulating them into keeping their sexual relations secret. “You and I were brought together by God,” Robson said Jackson told him. Their mothers also offer narratives of seduction into the cult of Jackson -- and the ensuing guilt that haunts them. Robson first met Jackson as a

five-year-old after winning a dance competition. The megastar invited the boy to his Neverland Ranch, where Robson, by then seven, said the abuse began. He describes how their sexual relationship “escalated rapidly,” with Jackson telling him: “This is us showing each other that we love each other.” Safechuck, who said his abuse began at age 10, tells a similar tale, saying Jackson told him if anyone found out their lives “would be over.” (afp)

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Tensions between India and Pakistan raged Saturday as heavy firing by their armies killed at least seven people on either side of their fiercely disputed Kashmir border. The nuclear-armed rivals fired mortars and artillery at each other despite the release of an Indian pilot who had been shot down by Pakistan but then sent back as a “goodwill gesture”. In a fearsome 24 hour spell, two soldiers and two civilians died on the Pakistan side, its military said. On the Indian side, a woman and her two children died after their house was pulverised by a mortar shell. Indian army chief Bipin Rawat dashed to Udhampur in his country’s sector of Kashmir on Saturday to review border security. Across the region villagers huddled in makeshift bunkers while police ordered non-essential traffic off roads, an AFP reporter said. At least 12 civilians have been killed on either side of the frontier since the start of the week. The release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman to Indian authorities late Friday following 60 hours in Pakistani custody boosted hopes of a de-escalation. But a furious backlash erupted in India over a video in which

Abhinandan can be seen praising his captors and criticising Indian media. - Pilot returns Abhinandan was shot down in his MiG fighter Wednesday as he chased Pakistani jets over disputed Kashmir. His capture had become the centrepiece of hostilities between the arch-rivals after a February 14 suicide bombing in Kashmir killed 40 Indian paramilitaries. Abhinandan, who ejected to safety but was set upon by a crowd on the Pakistani side of the Kashmir ceasefire line, had a noticeable black eye when he returned and was immediately taken for a medical checkup before a debriefing by military and intelligence agencies. Media reports said Abhinandan’s return was held up because he was forced to make the video

before being freed. In the heavily edited video distributed by the Pakistani military just before his release, he praised the professionalism of the Pakistani army and criticised Indian media for creating war hysteria. Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir state, said the video tainted Pakistan’s gesture to return the pilot so quickly. “Sadly the image you paint for us is marred terribly by the video he’s forced to record just before you sent him back,” Abdullah said on Twitter. “That high moral ground you had bequeathed to yourselves slipped at the end.” India’s feverish social media also slammed the video, which was tweeted by the Pakistan government but later taken off its official account.

- War rhetoric There was no let-up in war rhetoric with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying no-one could “dare threaten” a “new, fearless and decisive” India. Modi also told an India Today media group conference the country needed the Rafale fighter jets it wants to buy from France. The deal has been embroiled in corruption allegations levelled by the opposition Congress party. “If India had the procured the Rafale on time then the result of the recent skirmish with Pakistan could have been different,” Modi said. In a bid to defuse the tensions, Adel al-Jubeir, minister of state for foreign affairs for Saudi Arabia, a key Pakistan ally, was to arrive in Islamabad Sunday, underlining global concern over the showdown. Saudi Arabia has offered to help to end the new hostilities. “He is visiting us and and will also visit India. He is our friend and we have historical relations with them (Saudi Arabia),” Pakistan’s

foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters. Pakistan media praised the government for releasing the pilot but some social media users criticised the military video, calling it “cheap” and “unnecessary”. Abhinandan was captured a day after Indian planes bombed what New Delhi said was a militant camp in Pakistan, in retaliation for the Kashmir suicide bombing claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group. Kashmir has been divided between the two countries since their independence and bitter split in 1947. It has been at the centre of two of their three wars since then. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.


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