"If you have faith, you will be saved"

Jezus' sister

Reading fascinating reports from China, that often do not make it into the mainstream media, happens at least a few times per week. I lack the time to write about all of them, but this week had a few very nice ones.
At first, the was the issue of the ant-farmers in Shenyang, who took their protest to the streets, after the company they had been working for mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind debts for thousands of farmers. "Ant-farmers" you might wonder. Yes, the ants were used for a nutritious food (indeed: code for an aphrodisiac) that seemed to be doing pretty well in the market. According to Reuters:

The investors -- many of them laid-off workers or farmers -- put their savings into Shenyang's Yilishen Group for a scheme in which they raised ants to provide ingredients for a health tonic promising an aphrodisiac boost.

For every 10,000 yuan ($1,350) they paid the company as "deposit", investors were promised a dividend of 3,250 yuan

ESWN reports today about the arrest of the sister of Jesus. Mrs. Zhou from Zhongshan city was asking up to 200,000 rmb to heal cancer patients and owned three villas and a considerably piece of ground.

On November 10, a "sacred" rite was being held inside a private villa on Taiping street in Minzhong town. In the hall of the villa, "Little Goddess" sat underneath a cross hung on the wall. A tablet with the words "The Greatest Miracle Doctor Underneath The Heavens" hung on the wall by the side. Several "believers" knelt before her and kowtowed. In front of them were the bottles of mineral bottle that these believers have brought with them. After they put the money into the mooncake box on the table, "Little Goddess" turned the mineral water into holy water that could cure every possible disease. But before the rite could be completed, the Zhongshan police charged into the villa and arrested "Little Goddess" Zhou. According to one of the arresting police officers, a family of four at the scene begged the police to let Zhou go, because the police was arresting a good person.

The translation includes an interview with the sister of Jesus. I guess the human right watchers must be making overtime now all this juicy information becomes available.