Though the world’s religions are very dynamic, and major faiths continue to shift and evolve in ritual and doctrine, the world today is dominated by the same four faiths that dominated the globe a millennium ago: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. While some relatively recent faiths have succeeded in recruiting millions of followers-such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism), Scientology, and Baha’i-their numbers of adherents are dwarfed in scale by these earlier four. According to a 2012 Pew study, 92 percent of religiously affiliated people around the globe belong to one of these four faiths. The goal was to establish a Zion, similar in concept to the one Mormons founded one and a half centuries ago in Utah-a faraway community where followers could live according to their faith without being challenged by outsiders. Currently he helps to great followers of Lord Buddha who tries to attain paths and fruitions. “Rejoice in the Lord always. Raëlism has gone international, with active membership in North America, Europe, and Japan, but it’s only a minor faith, with followers numbered in the thousands rather than the millions. Not since the angel Gabriel visited Muhammad in a cave around 610 AD, informing him that he is God’s prophet, has there been a new globally influential religion with hundreds of millions of followers.

More than 344,000 congregations across the US collectively employ hundreds of thousands of staff and buy billions of dollars worth of goods and services. The Socioeconomic Contributions of Religion to American Society: An Empirical Analysis calculated the $1.2tn figure by estimating the value of religious institutions, including healthcare facilities, schools, daycare and charities; media; businesses with faith backgrounds; the kosher and halal food markets; social and philanthropic programmes; and staff and overheads for congregations. ­In this article, we’ll look at current efforts to collect and store the genes of Earth’s living creatures, from food crops and extinct wildlife to the DNA profiles of entire human populations. The religion states that the aliens have decided to leave human beings to their own devices, but that once “embassies” are built to welcome back the aliens, the aliens will help advance human technology and even contribute to human immortality. Yes, yes. This means that I’m back. That is correct. The existence of God, in fact of any god, can not be proven by any scientific means. If this is the case, God can be aware of different facts in their different temporal locations without himself changing. Q: How can conflict and cultural differences be handled in a cross-cultural marriage?

Who was Sir Isaac Newton? They “never had that desire, to create a new country,” Yudhistra Arif Rahman, a lawyer who represented Mushaddeq, told me. The leader of the group, Ahmad Mushaddeq, a broad-shouldered man with bright gray eyes and a winning smile, is a former national badminton coach turned preacher. But Scientology has struggled recently, as former high-level members of the faith described the immense sums of money required to advance within the Church hierarchy, as well as threatening actions the Church takes against dissenters. The meeting held last September in Castel Gandolfo was the last in a series of annual meetings with Ratzinger and his former students. But the utopian effort would not last long. There is a lot of travelling companies who made many attractive Hajj packages to make this visit more comfortable. Visit charming hill stations, lush tea plantations, and serene backwaters. “They have their own system, they have their own country-in my opinion it is dangerous for Indonesia,” Koentjoro Soeparno, a professor of social psychology who evaluated Gafatar members after they were returned home from Borneo, told me in an interview. It shows that illegal earning conveys terrible punishment and person who performs it, will meet many social, rational and mystical issues.

But it’s far from clear whether the faith will be able to carry on effectively, given the Indonesian state’s apparent determination to stamp it out. But followers I spoke with said there had been no coercion, and Gafatar members had moved to West Borneo to live communally and worship freely, not to challenge the Indonesian state or conduct mass suicide. Mushaddeq’s followers also established a parallel back-to-the-land social movement, called Gafatar, which promoted organic farming and agricultural self-sufficiency, considered by Millah Abraham to be two of the real-life applications of their vaguely New-Age faith. His followers proclaimed him to be the prophet to succeed Muhammad, sparking a new religious movement based on his teachings, which was eventually called Millah Abraham. To the Indonesian government, Millah Abraham is a weed. After being returned home, Gafatar members were given classes on Indonesian nationalist doctrine by soldiers; evaluated by psychologists, and encouraged to return to their old faith, which was generally Islam.