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Recent statistics on the Good News Bible, AIDS orphans, and Ponzi schemes

70 billion

$14 million

Picture sales for Annie Vallotton, illustrator of the Good News Bible. HarperCollins says her 500 line drawings for the Bible, which has sold 140 million copies, make her the best-selling artist of all time. Amount the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel lost in two apparent Ponzi schemes. The denomination’s president and treasurer resigned in March.

14 million

25 million

AIDS orphans in the world today AIDS orphans expected by 2010

Sources: The Washington Times, BBC, Los Angeles Times

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