Thank you to my parents for walking away from the Exclusive Brethren
Glennis BoydStuffAugust 20, 2016Oppressive, religious, strict, controlling, fear-installing, secretive, emotionally suppressive... These would be the words that would begin to express some of my...
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Most states allow religious exemptions from child abuse and neglect laws
AUGUST 12, 2016 PEW RESEARCH CENTERBY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROMAll states prosecute parents whose children come to severe harm through neglect. But in 34 states (as well as the District of Columbia, Guam...
View ArticleAbout Utah: A Krishna temple in the heart of Salt Lake Valley
Lee Benson, Deseret NewsSunday, Aug. 7 2016 SALT LAKE CITY — The hole in the ground has been there for a month now, but Caru Das can’t stop admiring it.Who’d have thought? A Krishna temple in the...
View ArticlePramukh Swami Maharaj, Whose Hindu Sect Became Largest in U.S., Dies at 94
AYESHA VENKATARAMANNY TimesAUGUST 19, 2016MUMBAI, India — Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader who engineered the global expansion of a socially conservative Hindu sect that grew to be the...
View ArticleUTAH POLYGAMIST TOWN, HIT BY FATAL 2015 FLOODS, TO GET $670K FOR PROTECTION
By MICHELLE L. PRICETHE ASSOCIATED PRESSAugust 19, 2016SALT LAKE CITY — A polygamist community on the Utah-Arizona border where at least a dozen people were swept away to their deaths in flash flooding...
View ArticleChurch recordings said to be among evidence in polygamous sect food stamp...
NATE CARLISLEThe Salt Lake TribuneAugust 20, 2016A government informant made audio recordings during Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints services, and some of those recordings...
View ArticleElizabeth Smart on Her Captivity: 'Pornography Made My Living Hell Worse'
NBC NewsELIZABETH CHUCKAugust 20, 2016The man who held Elizabeth Smart captive when she was a teenager regularly looked at pornography, which "just led to him raping me more," the now 28-year-old woman...
View ArticleDestiny Church co-founder splashes out on $150k Mercedes - her second for 2016
One NewsAugust 21, 2016Co-leader of the tax-exempt Destiny Church Hannah Tamaki has splashed out on a $150k Mercedes SUV - her second Mercedes in seven months - as members continue to pay 10 per cent...
View ArticleLeaving the Mormon faithWhy former Mormons club together to share their...
August 21, 2016H.G. AND ERASMUSThe EconomistIF YOU visit a long, brightly-lit cafeteria in South Salt Lake, Utah, on a Sunday morning, you can hear a low babble of conversations, over steaming mugs,...
View ArticleReligious privilege undermines abuse victims’ access to justice
August 22, 2016Richard ScorerNational Secular SocietyReligious privilege undermines abuse victims’ access to justiceRichard Scorer, a specialist child abuse lawyer at Slater & Gordon draws...
View ArticleThree Local Pastors Speak at National Conference
SouthCoastToday.comDebra RyanJuly 31, 2016After attending a conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) in Dallas, Texas in June, Rev. Dr. Neil Damgaard shared its effects on how...
View ArticleJehovah's Witnesses booklets declared "extremist" in Russian Ural
MOSCOW, August 22 (RAPSI) – The Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Russian Ural has declared booklets of the Jehovah’s Witnesses extremist, RIA Novosti reported on Monday.The court thus upheld a lower...
View ArticleConvictions overturned for woman arrested during 2014 satanic "black mass"...
The Oklahomanby Kyle Schwab August 22, 2016 A New Jersey woman who refused to cease kneeling and praying outside the Oklahoma City Civic Center during a satanic “black mass” in 2014 has had her...
View ArticleWealthy Mormon blasts ‘right wing’ LDS church as he plans futuristic ‘utopia’...
TRAVIS GETTYS22 AUG 2016Raw StoryA wealthy Mormon businessman is planning to build several futuristic utopian communities around the world based on plans laid out by church founder Joseph Smith — but...
View ArticleJudge considers whether to release FLDS members from jail again
FOX 13 NewsAUGUST 22, 2016,BY BEN WINSLOW SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal judge is considering whether to release two top members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, accused of violating a court order by...
View ArticleExclusive Brethren follow the church, not God
August 23, 2016StuffBEVAN THOMAS"When the Exclusive Brethren community becomes hostile it is a nightmare of isolation and rejection. It is condemnation that is very real."KEVIN STENT/FAIRFAX NZOur...
View ArticleLOYOLA FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL IN COUNTRY TO OFFER ELECTIVE IN TRANSCENDENTAL...
Article ID: 659536Released: 22-Aug-2016 3:05 PM EDTSource Newsroom: Loyola University Health SystemNewswise — MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine is the first major...
View ArticlePolygamous sect members won't be released before trial
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:31 pmSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two polygamous sect members accused in a food-stamp fraud case will stay in jail after violating their supervised release at the direction of...
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Ultra-Orthodox rabbis ban women from going to university in case they get...
The Independent· August 23, 2016· Siobhan Fenton, Dina Rickman Exclusive: The decree seen by The Independent warns ‘We will be very strict about this. No girls attending our school are...
View ArticleGo Topless Day Returns To Venice Beach This Weekend
LAistBY JULIET BENNETT RYLAH IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTAUG 22, 2016 Go Topless Day—the annual event put on by a religious movement that believes in extraterrestrials and equal nipple rights—returns...
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