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SATANIC TEMPLE PROTESTS PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC THERAPIES FOR SATANIC ABUSE AND...
Religion DispatchesJOSEPH LAYCOCK APRIL 6, 2016 If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you would have seen a most unusual sight: Two women bound on the sidewalk...
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Exclusive Brethren: The sect with millions of dollars in tax breaks whose...
Bevan Hurley Stuff April 10 2016Bruce Hales, Sydney-based global leader of the Exclusive Brethren, pictured with his wife Jennifer.A business conference in Auckland this week had a very special guest...
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Exclusive Brethren told to 'pray for the IRD' after favourable settlement
Bevan Hurley Stuff April 10, 2016Bruce Hales is the worldwide leader of the Exclusive Brethren, pictured with his wife Jennifer.A hardline Christian sect has told its worldwide following to "pray for...
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The Scientology Billboard goes viral
Summary of video links.Today show: http://shows.huffingtonpost.com/video/anti-scientology-billboard-is-desperate-parents--plea-to-estranged-children-519619353Good Morning America:...
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Conn. Judge Says Journalist Can't Be Sued for Critical Coverage of Religious...
CHRISTIAN NOLAN Connecticut Law Tribune April 7, 2016Falun Gong is a Chinese spiritual practice involving yoga-like exercises and breathing techniques, as well as philosophies designed around...
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Kenyan program recruits faith healers to help identify mentally ill
Fredrick Nzwili RNS April 8, 2016Pastor Ezekiel Musembi, the general secretary of the Makueni Pastors Foundation and Elizabeth Muendo, a community health worker in Makueni County speak on March 28,...
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You're not welcome, Free Church tells American pastor Creflo Dollar
Creflo DollarAPRIL 9, 2016 The National ANDREW LEARMONTHCONTROVERSIAL American pastor Creflo Dollar, who last year asked his followers to stump up $65 million for a new private jet, has been told he is...
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Inside the lair where cult leader imprisoned his daughter and brainwashed his...
FROZEN in time, this is the cluttered council flat where Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan imprisoned his daughter and brainwashed his followers.JAMES FIELDING Sunday Express April 10,...
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Losing my religion: life after extreme belief
‘I weep thinking about how callous and unmerciful I was’: Megan Phelps-Roper.Shahesta ShaitlyThe GuardianApril 10, 2016Megan Phelps-Roper, 30, a former member of the Westboro Baptist ChurchMy first...
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From Poet to Jihadi: The Story of a Somali American in Minnesota
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 21, had everything going for him – except the will to resist a powerful and angry narrative.Meira Svirsky April 10, 2016Abdirizak Mohamed WarsameHe had everything going for...
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Shankaracharya Of Dwarka Peeth: Women Entering Shani Temple Will Increase Rapes
Betwa SharmaHuffPost IndiaApril 11, 2016NEW DELHI — Three days after the Shani Shinganapur temple in Maharashtra was forced to revoke a centuries-old ban against the entry of women into its inner...
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Agenda for the 2016 ICSA Annual Conference in Dallas, TX
Register here: https://icsahome.givezooks.com/events/2016-icsa-annual-conference-dallas-tx Agenda for the 2016 ICSA Annual Conference in Dallas, TX Wednesday (Preconference Events) - 29 June 20169:00–...
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Can the Amish win over the Islanders? Cheap farmland triggers migration from...
Joe O'ConnorNational PostApril 10, 2016 Brad Oliver describes himself as an “old hippie.” He plays mandolin and guitar with The Rubber Boot Band, a down-home, down-east-Prince-Edward-Island-way-trio...
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A Month Later, Art of Living Still To Pay NGT Fine
GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGARThe Wire April 10, 2016 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living Foundation has still not paid the NGT fine imposed on it for damaging the Yamuna floodplain during its World Culture...
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Falun Gong, banned in China, finds a loud protest voice in the U.S. through...
Jessica Gelt Los Angeles TimesApril 9, 2016 Shen Yun Performing ArtsThe cavernous Long Beach Terrace Theater echoes with classical Chinese music as more than a dozen dancers expertly manipulate...
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From polygamy to incest, confronting the Old Testament's strange sexual...
Jonathan MerrittReligion News ServiceApril 8, 2016 One of the biggest hurdles to believing the Bible is the content of the first testament. Though many conservatives claim that the Christian scriptures...
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The Indian woman who hunts the witch hunters
Soutik BiswasBBC News, AssamApril 10, 2016Birubala Rabha has campaigned relentlessly against witch huntingNot so long ago, Birubala Rabha believed witches existed.Growing up, neighbours often told her...
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'We won't stop fighting': Parents use billboard to reach children inside...
Lindsey Bever Washington PostApril 11, 2016 “To my loved one in Scientology … call me.”There’s a billboard in Los Angeles dotted with dozens of faces representing Scientologists who have separated from...
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The new age of ayahuasca
Alle McMahonabc.net.auApril 10, 2016Welcome to the jungleDeep in the Amazonian rainforest, ayahuasca (pronounced eye-ah-wah-ska) is at the centre of a burgeoning, new-age tourism trend.It is a thick...
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My secret life as a gay ultra-Orthodox Jew
BBC April 11, 2016 Chaya, not her real name, is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who is gay. Here she describes her struggle to accept her sexuality, and why she has to keep it a secret from those who...
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