Harvard-acquired Pentecostal collection offers up 'gold mine'
Boston GlobeBy Lisa Wangsness GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 08, 2016It took years for Bishop Carlton Pearson, a groundbreaking African-American televangelist of the late 20th century, to visit the storage locker...
View ArticleA fringe Hindu group that believes in a divine kingdom is suspected in the...
August 7, 2016Parth M.N. Abhay Vartak aspires to live in a divine kingdom in which everyone is truthful and virtuous, leaving no room for violence or crime. Justice would be dispensed by a benevolent...
View ArticlePolygamous prophet reorganizing sect from prison, feds say
q13fox.AUGUST 8, 2016 DALLAS (CNN) — From inside a Texas prison cell, polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs is orchestrating a shakeup of his embattled sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...
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Idaho Faith Healers Fight Law Protecting Children
PatheosAugust 8, 2016Michael Stone Faith healers promise to disobey any new law that would protect children.Faith healers in Idaho say they will disobey any new law that would end a religious...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Winston Blackmore opposes polygamy's legalization, says it...
Vancouver SunDAPHNE BRAMHAMAugust 9, 2016 So, Canada’s most notorious and prolific polygamist doesn’t think polygamy should be legalized because the practise exploits women.Isn’t that rich? The next...
View ArticleVisiting the Cafe That's So Good You Forget it's Run By a Cult
VICEBy Maddison Connaughton and James CourtneyAugust 10, 2016Katoomba is a strange place. Probably the best description I've heard is that it has "a strong Twin Peaks vibe." It's a small town,...
View Article3 arrested for fabricating pedophilic Christian cult to defraud donors
Police say suspects pocketed funds raised to combat nonexistent group they claimed was kidnapping, forcibly converting Jewish children BY TAMAR PILEGGI August 10, 2016The Times of Israel Three...
View ArticleISIS is raising a new generation of terrorist fighters - and its system of...
Pamela Engel· Business Insider· August 10, 2016· ISIS might be ceding territory in the Middle East, but it hasn't given up the battle for hearts and minds.The terrorist group is...
View ArticleInside the 19th-Century Free Love Commune Powered by Electric Sex, Eugenics...
GawkerJudy Berman5/06/16 John Humphrey Noyes so fervently believed sleeping around could lead to immortality that he convinced 300 people to join him in a utopian socialist community built on that very...
View ArticleSellersburg pastor charged with abusing students accepts plea deal
Morgan Lentes, ReporterWLKYAugust 8, 2016SELLERSBURG, Ind. -A man charged with abusing children at an Indiana boarding school accepted a plea deal on lesser charges.Christopher Williams pleaded guilty...
View ArticleReligious right to donate food stamps is not a question for the jury,...
NATE CARLISLE | The Salt Lake TribuneAug 10 2016Courts » Defense should not be allowed at trial for FLDS leaders, they say.Jurors should not consider whether defendants had a religious right to donate...
View Article'Very clear signs of trouble' at Trinity Broadcasting Network as revenue...
July 14, 2016 The Orange County Register By TERI SFORZA / STAFF COLUMNISTIt has inspired awe in the God-fearing, and in those who mock them.The elaborate campus of Trinity Christian City International...
View ArticleSpecial report - Inside Israel's cults: messiah complex
Lisa Sanders continues her probe into cults that want to take the Jewish out of the Jewish state with a look at the high-tech OneForIsrael group Jewish NewsBY LISA SANDERS August 11, 2016 Yeshua, we...
View ArticleFeds say polygamous fraud scheme about profit, not religion
Washington TimesBy BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press - Thursday, August 11, 2016 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Lyle Jeffs and other polygamous sect leaders carried out a multi-million dollar food stamp fraud...
View ArticleBellows Falls Jehovah's Witnesses ask court to toss lawsuit
Brattleboro ReformerBy Robert Audette08/11/2016 BELLOWS FALLS — Attorneys for the Bellows Falls Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses are asking the United States District Court for the District of...
View ArticleJehovah's Witnesses under pressure over handling of sexual abuse claims
Organisation faces fight to prevent Charity Commission examining its records of abuse claims after supreme court rejects its attempt to block inquiryThe GuardianAlice RossFriday 12 August 2016 The...
View ArticleWhat happened when the Olympic committee tried to exclude Brazil's African...
RELIGION NEWS SERVICEBy Janet Tappin Coelho2016/08/12RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) When Mother Fatima Damas discovered her African-Brazilian religious beliefs would not be represented in the interfaith rooms of...
View ArticleWas Patty Hearst a Feminist?
Jeffrey Toobin's new biography refuses to take her radical beliefs seriously. NEW REPUBLICBY MALCOLM HARRIsAugust 11, 2016In my high school psychology class, we watched a video about the 1974...
View ArticleInside Spain's Right-Wing Rebel Catholic Cult
The ex-pontiff says his crypto-Fascist church (which made Franco a saint) was only ever intended, really, to bring its leaders sex and money. The Daily BeastAugust 14, 2016Itxu Díaz ORENSE, Spain — She...
View ArticleThe secretive cult shaping Japan's future
A powerful and secretive organisation with extreme views and deep roots in the country’s power structure is trying to make the nation great again Sunday, 14 August, 2016South China Morning PostDavid...
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