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Choose a page number: 1 Religion RSS FeedsLawyers for FLDS leader Warren Jeffs to question anti-polygamy activist Flora Jessop - In papers filed last week in a Kingman, Ariz., court, Jeffs' attorneys said they have scheduled a Nov. 24 interview with Flora Jessop in Phoenix. Jeffs' criminal defense team has asked her to bring copies of "any recordings of any phone calls between yourself and Rozita Swinton," the woman suspected of making the hoax call that launched the raid....Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Cult or Church: Woman questions Order of Christ-Sophia - The Order of Christ/Sophia has chapters across the U.S. They call themselves Christian Mystics, but some experts on mind control like Steve Hassan, call them "a destructive mind control cult where dependence and obedience is demanded." [video]... Religious sect executive picked up by marshals - The executive of a religious sect that's accused of orchestrating threats against Shawano, Wisconsin, officials has been picked up by the U.S. Marshals Service for extradition to Maryland on an unrelated contempt of court warrant.Authorities in Shawano and the FBI said her arrest had nothing to do with the Shawano threats case.... French appeals court restores marriage between two Muslims in virginity case - A French appeals court overturned on Monday a ruling by a lower tribunal that had annulled the marriage of two Muslims because the bride had lied about being a virgin.The court in Douai ruled that virginity "is not an essential quality in that its absence has no repercussion on matrimonial life."... Arkansas takes 21 children from Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound into protective custody - Arkansas authorities have taken into protective custody 21 children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries based on allegations of neglect and physical abuse. Julie Munsell of DHS says, "We had been gathering information, gathering evidence over the last several weeks, but was actually sped up by the reported movement of families and children in the area. So we went ahead and decided to execute the court order that we had received for the removal of the children." [video]... Girls testify that ?prophet? Tony Alamo touched them inappropiately - At a hearing on the custody status of two girls removed from Tony Alamo?s religious compound in southwest Arkansas, a 14-yearold girl testified that Alamo had touched her inappropriately, and an 18-year-old man described beatings at the hands of another church member.e girls, along with four others, were removed from the compound in Fouke after a Sept. 20 raid by federal and state authorities investigating allegations that children at the compound had been physically and sexually abused.... Cult member in toddler starvation case ordered released pending trial - In an unusual development for a murder case, an alleged member of a religious cult accused in the starvation death of a toddler was released from custody Monday and will remain free with minimal supervision until trial.Four other members of the now-defunct 1 Mind Ministries remain held without bail.... Religious cult member convicted but viewed as victim of cult leader - A woman charged with helping to hide a corpse in her Necedah home is also a victim of the man who is charged with directing that failed resurrection, lawyers for both the prosecution and defense said Monday.
"We do regard (Tammy Lewis), at least in part, as a victim of this cult activity," said County District Attorney Scott Southworth.... Opinion writer spouts misinformation about the term ?cult? - An opinion writer with a poor grasp of the facts claims that the term 'cult' has fallen into disuse.In doing so he merely apes the opinions of a handful of cult defenders, while ignoring the fact that the term 'cult' actually has precise sociological and theological meanings. Used properly, these cult terminology is as valid today as it has ever been.... Peoples Temple: pain of cult massacre lives on - 30 years ago more than 900 men, women and children were massacred in a murder-suicide ritual thought up by cult leader Jim Jones.On Nov. 18, 1978, members of the Jonestown security unit shot and killed congressman Leo Ryan, three journalists and one defector as they attempted to leave an airstrip near the settlement on two planes. The gunmen injured 10 other people, including Speier, who sustained five gunshot wounds.By the time the airstrip gunmen returned to Jonestown, Jones had gathered his people in the pavilion and had begun preparing them for the end. He used news of Ryan's shooting to convince the throng that they had no hope, no future, no place to go. "The congressman has been murdered!" he said. "Please get the m... Copyright © 2008, SandyHay.com. All Rights Reserved. |
