Jesus-like image appears on pancake in California Cafe
Washington: The owner of a cafe in Norco, California has claimed that when they were trying to make a Mickey Mouse pancake on Good Friday, it ended up looking like the image of Jesus Christ.
Gary Hendrickson, the co-owner of Cowgirl Cafe said that the night before, his wife decided to pray about something and the next day on Good Friday they got this pancake, ABC News reported.
He added that to them it looked like a picture of Jesus looking down, like he was looking down over them. The co-owner asserted that he could not explain why God acted the way he did. (ANI)
Prince William ‘addicted’ to Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
London: Martin Freeman has revealed that Prince William was hooked to movies like Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and the classic stories that inspired them.
The Hobbit star who met the Duke of Cambridge at the premier of the first film of the trilogy asserted that he was a nice guy and he was the biggest royal fan and they had fans everywhere as it was a very beloved book, the Mirror reported.
The 42-year-old actor said that the Duke wanted to be there at premiere as his wife was in hospital at the time. Freeman added that the 31-year-old prince knew all the facts about Middle Earth. (ANI)
Britain’s baby Prince George visits Australian zoo
Sydney: Britain’s baby Prince George stepped out in public with his parents today for the first time in Australia, for an encounter with wildlife at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
George, eight months old and third in line to the throne after grandfather Princes Charles and father William, stole the show as his parents toured the harbourfront zoo overlooking the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The royal family were at the zoo to visit an enclosure for bilbies and meet one of the rabbit-eared native marsupials who was named in George’s honour. Dressed in a blue striped shirt, blue shorts and black shoes, the infant prince wriggled excitedly out of Kate’s arms as they neared the habitat to get a closer look.
He cooed as William fed his bilby namesake and stroked its head, craning over the top of the enclosure’s glass wall. Propped up by his mother, George bobbed jubilantly up and down and waved his arms as the inquisitive bilby, previously known as Boy, crouched up on its hind legs and peered over the edge at him. He grinned and giggled for the cameras as William bounced him in his arms and kissed him on the head, beaming as he was presented with a stuffed toy bilby which he promptly tossed to the ground, setting off ripples of laughter in the capacity crowd. George held fast to the ear of a silver bilby statuette as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveiled a plaque in his honour. (AFP)
Man tried to hijack jet with choco bar
HONG KONG: A Finnish passenger accused of making a hoax bomb threat on a Cathay Pacific flight wielded a chocolate bar like a sword and demanded that the plane be diverted so he could attend the Winter Olympics, a report said on Friday.
Antti Oskari Manselius, 23, appeared in a Hong Kong court on Thursday charged with disorderly behaviour and for “communicating false information as to the existence of a bomb” during the Amsterdam-Hong Kong flight on February 14.
The court heard that he armed himself with a large Toblerone chocolate bar and told flight attendants he was “robbing” the plane, demanding that they divert to the Russian resort of Sochi where the Olympics were taking place, the South China Morning Post reported. Manselius approached the cockpit around six hours into the flight, pleaded not guilty claiming that he was only making “fun and jokes”.
The trial has heard that Manselius suffers from mental health problems and that he was transferred to a psychiatric facility after his arrest, the Post said. (AFP)
Filipinos nailed to cross in Easter ritual frowned on by church
CUTUD: Nearly 20 Filipinos and a Danish filmmaker were nailed to crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday, a practice the Roman Catholic Church frowns upon as a distortion of the Easter message.
The annual Philippine ritual draws thousands of spectators to San Fernando, 80 km (50 miles) north of Manila, to see penitents flagellate themselves and a series of crucifixions in a recreation of Christ’s death on the cross.
“It was a great experience between me and God,” 48-year-old Danish film director and stunt coordinator Lasse Spang Olsen, who stayed on the cross for more than 10 minutes, told Reuters before being treated for his wounds. “It was great. It was fun.”
But for some in the Philippines, where about 80 percent of the population are Catholics, the re-enactments of the crucifixion are an extreme display of devotion.
Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ died on the cross on Good Friday and rose from the dead two days later, on Easter Sunday. “I will do it as long as my body will allow me,” said Danilo Ramos, 43, who has been crucified 23 times. “I hope God will see my sacrifice and take good care of my family.” (Agencies)