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Children from sect can not discuss leader Warren Jeffs
2008-05-21 09:44:00 State Child Protective Services officials say that forbidding discussion about the convicted sex offender and jailed leader of a polygamous sect is a way to protect the more than 450 children from the sect who have been scattered around the state in foster care since the state removed them from a ranch near the West Texas town of Eldorado last month. More About: Children , Warren , Leader , Warren Jeffs
CPS says polygamist sect?s children can?t have photos of leader Warren Jeff
2008-05-21 09:36:00 "We are concerned about his teachings," a CPS spokeswoman said. "We think his teachings are what led in part to the investigation that we are involved in at this time." More About: Children , Photos , Warren , Jeff , Leader
New Mexico sect leader accused anew of sex abuse
2008-05-21 09:29:00 Wayne Bent, who who thinks he is the Son of God, was indicted Tuesday in a new court on suspicion of sex crimes against two young female followers. [video] More About: Abuse , Mexico , New Mexico , Leader
Will Smith funds school teaching Scientology creator?s study method
2008-05-19 18:28:00 The curriculum at Smith's New Village Academy of Calabasas, on which he has spent nearly £500,000, uses different educational theories including "study technology" ? a learning method developed by L Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology . More About: Will Smith , Study , Teaching , School
Locals in Russia?s Penza glad doomsday cult saga over
2008-05-19 14:44:00 The long-running saga made local officials aware of some of the problems facing residents and local authorities even repaired roads to allow easier access to the cave, locals said. More About: Cult , Russia , Saga , True Russian Orthodox Church , Glad
He lied to get into the church
2008-05-19 12:56:00 Taibbi, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, spent more than four months in 2006 and 2007 pretending to worship at the San Antonio megachurch whose pastor, John Hagee, has lately aired regrets if his past comments, including a reference to the "great whore" in the Book of Revelation, proved hurtful to Catholics. More About: Church , The Church , Lied
Big Brother house just like living with sect
2008-05-19 12:44:00 A contestant has begun to open up about his life with the Exclusive Brethren sect during the filming of Big Brother . He has described a life of no television - and countless rules. More About: House , Living
More yogic flyers arrive in Fairfield, Ohio
2008-05-19 12:02:00 Studies have shown that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, can foster harmony in society and reduce crime, war and other negative tendencies. In order to have the influence, research has shown the size of the group needs to exceed the square root of 1 percent of the population of a given area. That figure for the United States is 1,743. [Quoted verbatim...] More About: Ohio , Flyers , Fairfield
Scientology Cruise Ship Locked Down Due to Blue Asbestos Contamination
2008-05-19 11:36:00 Cult' s ship sealed by health officials; Scientology execs knew about the contamination since at least 2001, yet had done nothing. [video] More About: Locked , Blue , Cruise , Ship
LDS says Wikileaks web site violated its policy handbook copyrights
2008-05-19 11:29:00 "Wikileaks will not remove the handbooks [the Church Handbook of Instructions is a two-volume set], which are of substantial interest to current and former Mormons," according to a Wikinews article. "Wikileaks will remain a place where people from around the world can safely reveal the truth." More About: Site , Policy , Copyrights , Web site
Pastor flogs church member to death
2008-05-19 11:23:00 Pandemonium broke out weekend in Benin after a member of one of the new generation churches in the city, identified as Stella was allegedly flogged to death by her Pastor during a deliverance session. More About: Church , Death , Exorcism
Judges to separate FLDS sect custody cases
2008-05-19 11:11:00 This is standard operating procedure for family court, but these are hardly standard cases. More About: Judges , Cases , Custody
FLDS compound in Black Hills shrouded in secrecy
2008-05-17 16:52:00 The possibility that a raid on a Texas polygamist compound stemmed from hoax calls to a shelter makes local law enforcement here more cautious about what would trigger a response to allegations of abuse at the sect's ranch in South Dakota's Black Hills . More About: Secrecy , Black Hills
10 arrested in France, Germany, Netherlands in terror probe
2008-05-17 16:47:00 The official said French police suspect the suspects collected funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group said by the United States to have close ties to Al Qaeda. But a Turkish Islamic extremist group may also be linked to the case. More About: Terror , Arrested , Germany , France , Netherlands
Elissa Wall Speaks Out About Her ?Stolen Innocence?
2008-05-17 16:32:00 One of the darkest secrets of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints unfolds at a seedy roadside motel in the remote Nevada desert, where underage girls -- some as young as 14 -- are allegedly forced through hasty and secret wedding ceremonies. More About: Stolen , Elissa , Wall , Innocence
Judge considers dropping incest charges against Warren Jeffs
2008-05-17 15:56:00 Jeffs' lawyers argued during a court hearing in Kingman that prosecutors can either file sex with a minor charges or incest charges, but not both, and they want the incest charges dismissed. More About: Judge , Warren , Incest , Warren Jeffs
Costs for raid on polygamist sect in the millions and mounting
2008-05-17 15:46:00 roviding foster care for the 460-plus children seized at a polygamist ranch six weeks ago could cost taxpayers as much as $1.5 million a month, and that does not take into account the millions the state is on the hook for dispatching countless caseworkers and law officers to West Texas in the days after the raid. More About: Millions , Costs , Raid
Napa cult murderer found not guilty by insanity
2008-05-17 15:39:00 A Napa County jury on Thursday found Alex Taylor not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of George Davis last spring. More About: Cult , Insanity , Murderer , Guilty
Last doomsday cult members leave cave in Russia after authorities find 2 ro
2008-05-16 11:40:00 The nine were the last of a group of 35 men, women and children that had dug into a hillside near the Volga region town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if authorities tried to remove them. [video] More About: Cult , Leave , Find , Russia , Authorities
American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide
2008-05-16 11:18:00 An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head. More About: Suicide , Woman , Irish , Euthanasia
Judge won?t free family of polygamist sect member
2008-05-16 10:40:00 Dan Jessop said he won a partial victory, though, when lawyers for Child Protective Services told a judge that CPS workers would try by Thursday evening to place his wife, their newborn son and two other very young children together in a foster home, possibly in San Antonio. More About: Family , Judge , Free
The Virgin Mary?s place in the Kern County sun
2008-05-16 10:34:00 Twenty years after a woman said the Virgin Mary appeared to her, hundreds still attend Our Lady of the Rock gatherings in the Mojave. Despite disavowal by the church, followers say they draw comfort. More About: Catholic Church , County , Place
Polygamist Sect?s Finances Are Murky
2008-05-16 10:27:00 Questions about the source of the sect's money have been swirling around the FLDS since Texas authorities raided their Yearning for Zion ranch last month and seized more than 460 youngsters because of evidence that the sect has been marrying off underage girls to older men. More About: Finances
Church disowns activist bishop
2008-05-16 10:15:00 Australia's bishops have released a public statement suggesting that Bishop Robinson is wrong about the authority of Christ and the authority of the church to "teach the truth". More About: Church , Catholic Church
Polygamous sect buying land in 2 Colorado counties
2008-05-16 10:09:00 In the past two years, a senior aide to Jeffs has purchased three properties in Custer County, near the town of Westcliffe. More About: Buying , Colorado , Land
Polygamist sect couple allowed to visit their children
2008-05-16 10:02:00 It was unclear if the judge based his decision on the Jessops' arguments that they are in a monogamous marriage, but others are making the same argument. More About: Children , Couple , Visit
All Russian doomsday sect members leave dugout
2008-05-16 09:57:00 Earlier Friday, rescuers and police completed an operation to bring to the surface the bodies of two deceased sect members. "As we pulled out the dead bodies, we suggested the others leave. They agreed," Vladimir Provotorov said. [video] More About: Russian , Leave , True Russian Orthodox Church , Doomsday , Members
?Sex Cult? Pastor Arrested in Texas
2008-05-15 23:33:00 In an interview for "20/20," Hawkins' former wife Kay says he began to preach polygamy after he was caught having an affair with a church secretary. "He began to rewrite the Scriptures," she said. "Any Scripture that did not go along with more than one wife was rewritten to imply that it was all right to have more than one wife." More About: Arrested , Cult , Texas , House of Yahweh , Pastor
Judge dismisses case of woman who says veil cost her claim
2008-05-14 18:37:00 A lawyer representing a Muslim woman who sued a judge for dismissing her small-claims court case after she refused to remove her veil said he's prepared to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. More About: Judge , Cost , Woman , Case , Veil
Texas officials say new mom from polygamist ranch is not a minor
More articles from this author:2008-05-14 18:25:00 But they won?t say if another former resident of the ranch, who gave birth on Monday, will be given a chance to leave state custody later this week because she also is an adult, though a lawyer for her husband says state officials have hinted that will happen. More About: Texas , Minor , Ranch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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