Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts’ Eat Pray Love has angered Catholic Church leaders who have given the movie a thumbs down for ignoring the faith.
Catholic News Service (CNS) officials in Washington, D.C. have suggested followers of the faith should give the film a miss because Roberts character fails to seek spiritual guidance in Rome, Italy, during the “Eat” section of the movie, reported Contactmusic.
A review of the film written by CNS’ John Muldering says, “Though she (Roberts’ character) seemingly hits every restaurant in town, she gives the churches a pass, the implication being that she knows better than to look to Catholicism for insight.”
The news service has given the movie an “L” classification, suggesting the film may trouble some devout Catholics with “content many adults would find troubling”.
To make matters worse, Roberts, who grew up a Catholic, has recently become a Hindu after spending time in an ashram while filming the “Pray” section of the new film in India. The 42-year-old actress recently told Elle magazine,
“I’m definitely a practising Hindu.” The film, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling travel memoir, was released on August 13.
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Song praising Osama posted on YouTube
Skopje: Ethnic Albanian Islamists in Macedonia have uploaded a song praising Osama bin Laden on the popular video sharing website YouTube. The singer and songwriter are unknown.
“Allah is great. You fled from your hometown and swore to Jihad. You spent your life in the mountains and all you had you sacrificed to Allah,” says the song. The song is rumoured by some to be being performed in mosques around Macedonia after it was distributed at a n ethnic Albanian Muslim forum in Macedonia. It is thought to have been performed in several mosques in Skopje, the Macedonian capital.
One in four of Macedonia’s two million people are ethnic Albanians, who are Muslims. Muslims have criticised the song, and claim they had nothing to do with it.
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