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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
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
House Of Yahweh: A Darker Sect Than FLDS
2008-05-14 18:07:00 Authorities in February charged the group's 73-year-old leader with performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children - some as young as 11 - to work jobs at his 44-acre compound. More About: House , Yahweh , House of Yahweh
Clearwater merchants upset over anti-Scientology protests
2008-05-14 17:53:00 The majority of the business owners who signed the petition are Scientologists, which led some in Anonymous to question whether the church had a hand in the petition. But Church of Scientology spokeswoman Pat Harney and a number of business owners who spoke with the Times on Monday denied it. [Yeah, right. And the economy is doing well, George Bush admits he was/is wrong, and Elvis agrees...] More About: Clearwater , Anti , Protests , Upset
Saudi prof faces flogging for having coffee with woman
2008-05-14 17:34:00 Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to release a Saudi university professor who is facing flogging and imprisonment for meeting a woman to whom he is not related for coffee in the conservative Islamic kingdom. More About: Coffee , Faces , Woman , Prof
Former under-age polygamous bride tells all in book
2008-05-14 16:08:00 Months after helping to send Warren S. Jeffs to prison, Elissa Wall is telling her story in a book she hopes will lead women and girls to leave his polygamous sect. More About: Book , Bride , Tells
Man dressed as Darth Vader spared jail for attack on founder of Jedi church
2008-05-14 12:27:00 In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 ? 0.7 percent of the population ? listed Jedi as their religion. More About: Church , Founder , Darth Vader , Vader
Vatican says aliens could exist
2008-05-14 12:19:00 Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, the Vatican 's astronomer speculates. More About: Aliens , Catholic Church , Roman Catholic Church , Exist
Records say cult killed baby because he was a ?demon?
2008-05-14 12:04:00 ?The child was abused because Javon was noncompliant with the existing rules of the ?cult,? ? the records state. ?The child was also viewed as a ?demon.? ? More About: Baby , Cult , Demon , Killed , Records
Son: Arrest of Cult Dad Like Betrayal of Jesus
2008-05-13 15:55:00 "Jesus was betrayed by a former disciple. He was arraigned on false charges, he was buried. He was crucified and buried. And the district attorney has his own purpose to bury my dad. He wants to make a name for himself by burying a cult leader so he can be elected," Jeff Bent said. More About: Arrest , Cult , Betrayal
Warren Jeffs requests dismissal of incest charges
2008-05-10 19:30:00 Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith did not dispute that his victims were both under 18 but wrote in his response that Jeffs "used his position of power and trust to place both victims into so-called 'marriages' with men who were over 18 years of age and are related to the victims as first cousins of the half-blood." He said that while a plain reading of the statute makes the 18 and older argument, applying it that way leads to absurd results. More About: Warren , Incest , Requests , Warren Jeffs
Polygamist ranch is considered one household, state says
2008-05-10 19:14:00 Child Protective Services officials this week defended their decision to remove hundreds of children from the Eldorado ranch run by a polygamous sect, saying that the group's communal living situation required the removal of all the children in the face of evidence of sexual abuse. More About: Household , State , Ranch
Australia: Presbyterian church split over cult?s fate
2008-05-10 18:53:00 Top-level tensions in the Presbyterian church over a cult inside its Camberwell church have deteriorated after the state authority defied a move that would end its attempts to excise the cult. Members of the Victorian assembly on Tuesday expressed outrage at a report from the national church group that in practice exonerates the cult, known as the Fellowship. More About: Church , Australia , Cult , Fate , The Fellowship
Utah sects won?t be raided, attorney general says
2008-05-10 18:41:00 "I know you are worried about that. We're not going to do it," Shurtleff said Thursday during a public meeting on polygamy at the Dixie Center. "We don't believe that is the answer." More About: General , Attorney , Utah , Attorney General , Sects
New Mexico apocalyptic sect leader released on bond
More articles from this author:2008-05-10 02:10:00 The clerk of the magistrate court in Clayton said a $55,000 bond was posted for Wayne Bent by his son. More About: Bond , Mexico , New Mexico , Released , Leader 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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