Who was the real Jesus?

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Do recently discovered ancient manuscripts reveal a different Jesus? Or…does the evidence reveal that the Jesus of the New Testament is the real Jesus?

Scholars examine the facts:

Who was---or is Jesus Christ? Ancient manuscripts tell us that Jesus was born around 4 BC and died AD 30. Although he never wrote a book or held a position of political power, Jesus’ life has influenced our planet more than that of any king, president, philosopher or other religious leader.
Written accounts from his followers tell us that Jesus bodily rose from the grave three days after his brutal execution on a Roman cross and burial. Yet TV documentaries, movies, and books like The Da Vinci Code have attacked the New Testament record of Jesus Christ, claiming it is unreliable; others claim Jesus is a myth.
Archaeologists, historians, textual critics, and paleographers have discovered a wealth of evidence that sheds light on this unique person in the history of our world. So what do the facts tell us? Can we trust the New Testament accounts of Jesus, or are the skeptics right?
What have scholars discovered about Jesus Christ?

Read the evidence:

The following articles are from Y-Jesus magazine.

• Was Jesus a Real Person?
• Was there a Da Vinci Conspiracy?
• Is Jesus God?
• Are the Gospels True?
• Was Jesus the Messiah?
• Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
• Is Jesus Relevant Today?

The King of Pop - Jacko's life, death and controversy

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Although he often made the headlines for the wrong reasons - especially in the later years of his life - the King of Pop was mourned around the world, and his music defined a generation.

But his death did not just seal his legacy. It has also led to more rumours about his life, scandals and controversy.

The mystery surrounding the man excited millions.

And his death from a cardiac arrest at the age of just 50 shocked the entire world, and he is sure to be in the news for some time to come.

What will happen to his children? Is he really their father? Does he have a secret lovechild?

No one even knows for sure if or where he has been buried.

Check out BILD.com's dedicated Jacko page to see articles and videos taking a look at the life, death and the controversy of the King of Pop.

Passports go missing at UK visa office

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Over a dozen people have landed in trouble, some of them in quite serious problems, when the British High Commission Islamabad office told them that it had lost their passports.
The High Commission has also asked these visa seekers to come up with fresh passports for reprocessing of their cases, some of the affectees informed TheNation on Sunday.
The sources in the British High Commission confirmed that the passports of several people had gone missing during the course of these passports’ movement from Islamabad to Abu Dhabi for visa processing, but could not give the exact number of the passports that went missing.
Like many other embassies and missions in Pakistan, British High Commission also gets the applications for British visa seekers through Gerry's, a courier company charging hefty fees for the purpose.
But the people at Gerry's said that they were responsible for the safe provision of the documents to the embassy or the mission concerned and if something went wrong with the documents in the mission they were not responsible for that.
The officials at Gerry's were not aware of the exact number of the missing passports during the processing in British High Commission. However, they did admit the issue as a number of visa-seekers approached them with the complaints of missing passports but on realizing the situation they turned to British High Commission for relief.
The problem turned quite serious as some of the passports had valid visas for several countries and in certain cases people suffered huge loss as they failed to attend some of their important business meetings abroad.
One Zafar Mahmood Chief Executive Officer Global Marketing Services, who too had lost his passport at the hands of British High Commission, narrating his ordeal to TheNation informed that he had applied for business visa for UK on July 7, 2009 and dispatched his passport No BH0152992 along with all relevant documents through Gerry’s (ref. No. GRY-PK-01-096361-X).
He said that initially he was kept on queries for quite some time and after several contacts with Gerry’s office, Islamabad visa section and Abu Dhabi visa section of British High Commission he finally got a response from Abu Dhabi visa section on Sept 7, 2009 to approach the Islamabad Gerry’s office as they had dispatched the documents after processing.
He further said that since he was a frequent traveler and had to move abroad in connection with his business meetings, and since he was to move to Dusseldorf Germany immediately to attend Medica 2009 starting from Nov 17 where he had set over 15 business meetings, he finally decided to withdraw his application on Oct 29, 2009.

Israel admits to organ thefts

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Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families.

The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel's forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers.

In the interview, which was conducted in 2000 when Hiss was head of Tel Aviv's Abu Kabir forensic institute, he said: "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."

BANK ALFALAH MINI CARD - POOR SERVICE.

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I am a user of credit card of Bank Alfalah Limited, who claims itself "the Caring Bank". Bank has sent me Visa Mini Card and charged Rs.580/- for it.

The card was received by me on 08 Dec 2009 but its lamination on both sides sheded off itself. The poor service by Bank Alfalah Limited. I contacted to help line 111-225-111 where I was advised to contact at 35888630-9 for complaint.

Do you have the same problem or want to say anything.... please go ahead.

JUNAID AKRAM-LAHORE