Angelina Jolie Encounters God!

Actress-turned-director, Angelina Jolie, has been open about her disbelief in God.  In 2000, she said: "There doesn't need to be a God for me. There is something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike." But recently, Angelina has had a serious change of heart.

She has been directing the film 'Unbroken', a story about the life of WWII hero, Olympic athlete, and devout Christina Louis Zamperini. Angelina spent lots of time with Louis discussing his testimony and how he came to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and saviour. Then God sent her a miracle on-set!

Angelina desperately needed sun to shoot the very last scene of the movie, but the rain would not stop. That's when something truly amazing happened.

Louis Zamperini's daughter, Cynthia said, "She (Angelina) was not a person of faith and had never prayed before, but she found herself at the very last scene of the movie... they needed sunlight to shoot this very important scene and there had been a storm that had been going for a while.

Angelina said, 'I don't know what I'm going to do so I will do what Louie would do.' She got on her knees and she prayed for a miracle ... everybody saw it ... It stopped raining. The sun came out, a rainbow came out. She said, 'Let's get this take' and they shot the take. When she said 'cut', it started to rain again." 

This was not the only sign that a seed was planted in Angelina's heart.  When she heard that Louis Zamperini was on his deathbed, she rushed to the hospital. Sadly, she did not make it before the hero passed. But when she saw Louis' family, she "pointed above saying 'I know he's with us, I know he's there with God'."

Source: GodVine

Indian Tycoon Throws Mass Wedding for Fatherless Women

An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding ceremony for 111 fatherless women and given each one gifts worth thousands of dollars, saying giving a bride away was "sacred".

Mahesh Savani said the women, whose families were all too poor to finance their weddings, saw him as their foster father.

The 44-year-old said he had given each one gifts of gold and other items worth 450,000 rupees ($7,250) to start their married lives, as well as paying for the wedding.

"Material gifts are not important, but I have given my name to them and will fulfil all my responsibilities as a father of the bride for the rest of my life," he told AFP before the ceremony was held at a school in Gujarat state on Sunday.

Savani, who has now organised the weddings of 251 women, said he began his charitable campaign in 2008 when one of his own staff members died.

"I was very shocked when one of my employees died just 12 days before he could marry off his two daughters. It was very difficult for the family to arrange for marriage," he said.

"So I decided that I would become their foster father and marry them off. This is how it began," Savani said.

It is not known how much the giant ceremony wedding cost, but Indian weddings are famous for their grand scale with multi-course feasts, decorated horses, brass bands and huge tents arranged to entertain hundreds or even thousands of guests.

Source: Yahoo!