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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
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
British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus
2008-05-09 22:42:00 British Airways redefines 'religious insanity.' Again. More About: British , Beef , Menu , Avoid
Few who are left at polygamist ranch try to make sense of it all
2008-05-09 22:19:00 "This has turned from a thriving city into a ghost town," Utah-based FLDS leader Willie Jessop said as he navigated a luxury Mercedes SUV past a herd of hapless dairy cows, their unused milk being dumped out in the garden. "What do you build homes for if you don't have children to put in them? What do you grow a garden for if you don't have anybody to feed? Will life return out here? That has yet to be seen." More About: Sense , Left , Make , Ranch
Scientology losing its hold on James Packer, friends say
2008-05-09 22:05:00 Members of Mr Packer 's inner circle have confirmed that the billionaire, Scientology 's wealthiest member in the world, was no longer undertaking Scientology courses and had slowly moved away from the religion, telling his closest friends he no longer "needs it". More About: Friends , James , Hold
The internet pranksters who started a war
2008-05-09 09:58:00 They've become the sworn enemies of a controversial religion, famous for unsettling online video attacks and protesting en masse in creepy masks. But the elusive internet group known as Anonymous didn't start out with a concrete plan to bring down Scientology. Before they got serious, Anonymous members say, they were only in it for laughs. More About: Internet , The Internet
Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
2008-05-09 09:34:00 An Associated Press analysis of the records, which authorities seized in a raid last month, show that by the time a girl reached 16, she was more likely to be married than to live as a child in her father's household. The same was not true for boys. More About: Church , Inside , Rare , Families , Records
Bond lowered for N.M. sect leader accused of sex crimes
2008-05-08 22:31:00 Bent, 66, is the leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church, whose members moved in 2000 to a remote former ranch near the Colorado line that they call Strong City. He has acknowledged having sex with followers and lying naked with virgins, but denies any children or adults were molested. He has said the virgins asked for sex and he refused. More About: Bond , Crimes , Leader
Don?t speak: doomsday cult communicates using psalms and notes
2008-05-08 18:51:00 Authorities say the only subject that cult members agree to discuss is about living conditions in the cave. They answer to all other questions by singing psalms or writing. More About: Cult , Notes , Speak , Psalms , True Russian Orthodox Church
Raid on Sect in Texas Rattles Other Polygamists
2008-05-08 13:55:00 Fierce winds of change ? from national political attitudes about polygamy to new economic stress and even down to the personal decisions about where to live in a post-Eldorado world ? are buffeting the polygamist faithful. More About: Texas , Raid
Christian leaders question D.C. probe of prosperity televangelists
2008-05-08 11:21:00 Nearly two-dozen conservative Christian leaders have signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee questioning an investigation into six large ministries that preach a gospel of prosperity. More About: Question , Televangelists , Leaders , Probe
Reclusive Penza sect members dig out well in underground cave
2008-05-08 10:42:00 Sect members still staying in the cave have not signaled any date of their possible coming out. More About: Russia , Underground , Members , Cave
Girl, 13, hangs herself after becoming obsessed with Emo ?suicide cult? roc
2008-05-08 03:11:00 On her Bebo page Miss Bond, who used the online name Living Disaster and has internet friends with names like Sam Suicide , said she was obsessed with the hugely popular My Chemical Romance band, whose hit number one with their last album The Black Parade. Her mother, Heather Bond, told the court how she learned The Black Parade is "where you go when you die" as she researched the emo fad. More About: Cult , Girl
Internet Group Schedules Another Protest Of Scientology
2008-05-08 02:55:00 For the fourth time in as many months, the Internet -based group Anonymous will stage a protest against the Church of Scientology in downtown Clearwater. More About: Protest , Group
Fringe sect?s lawsuit delays monument to fallen WWII soldiers
2008-05-08 02:50:00 A Utah religion whose followers practice mummification is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that is delaying a permanent home for a World War II monument honoring fallen American servicemen. More About: Lawsuit , Fringe , Soldiers , Fallen , Delays
N.M. sect leader, jailed awaiting court appearance, refuses food
2008-05-08 02:47:00 Bent?whose adopted name Travesser is the name of a creek in the area?is a former Seventh-day Adventist minister who separated from that church in 1987 and formed The Lord Our Righteousness movement. He announced in 2000 that he is the Messiah. More About: Food , Appearance , Court , Leader
New Mexico Compound?s Enraptured Believers
2008-05-08 02:38:00 There is much to make the jaw drop in ?Inside a Cult,? a timely documentary about the Strong City sect in New Mexico being shown on Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. But by its end you may feel that the most stunning thing is that this film exists at all. Why would these people have let a documentarian get so close to their exceedingly eccentric world? More About: New Mexico , Believers
The church is ailing - send for Dr Who
2008-05-04 09:11:00 At a conference last week, vicars watched Doctor Who clips that were said to illustrate themes of resurrection, redemption and evil. It analysed the similarities between the Doctor and Christ, and whether daleks are capable of change. More About: Christianity , Church , Send , The Church
Polygamous sect seeking help from governor of Utah
More articles from this author:2008-05-04 08:55:00 The letter asks Huntsman to exercise his executive authority to assist in protecting the civil rights of native Uthans and FLDS members. FLDS parents claim they have been denied their due process by the Texas courts. More About: Utah , Governor , Seeking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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