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Mormon Leader at BYU Graduation: “Disconnect Immediately” from “Those Who...
Hemant MehtaPatheos April 23, 2016Elder L. Whitney ClaytonDuring the commencement ceremonies for Brigham Young University on Thursday, most of the speeches were pretty typical, even for a school...
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10 Curious Scandals of Indian Swamis
WonderslistYou must have heard of those long-bearded spiritual gurus who promises you an advance ticket to heaven if you pay him some big fat dollars. Here’s a trivia, in my mother-tongue Bengali the...
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The man behind the award-winning Gloriavale documentary
PAULETTE CROWLEYStuff.comApril 23, 2016 Documentary-maker Ivars Berzins on location at the South Island Christian community Gloriavale at Lake Haupiri.It took a draw down on their mortgage to get...
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The Mercy Girls
These young women enrolled in an influential Christian counseling center for help. That's not what they found.Jennifer MillerSlateApril 24, 2016“He Grants Sleep to Those He Loves”Life wasn’t easy for...
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Trauma Stories – A Vignette – California Dreaming
Tiffany RoseUnguruApril 25, 2016 by I can’t quite remember the flight from Toronto to LAX but I remember the time leading up to it. I was 19 and I had recently returned from a commune in East Texas, my...
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Scientologist must pay damages for ‘vitriolic’ personal attack
Zabrina Collins sent 'distasteful' email to school principal after talk by Peter GriffithsRay ManaghIrish TimesApril 25, 2016 A chiropractor was ordered by a judge on Monday to pay €5,000 damages for a...
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Famous Jehovah's Witnesses: Which Other Celebrities Are Or Were Practicing...
Prince was not alone in his Jehovah's Witness faith -- some of the most famous celebrities are or were practicing the faith at some point in their lives.Kevin JacobsenEnStars on Apr 22, 2016While...
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Russia Arrests Scientologist For Stealing $2 Million And Giving To Church
KATIE ZAVADSKIThe Daily BeastApril 25, 2016 A woman is accused of defrauding apartment buyers, taking their deposits, and giving much of it to the church in Moscow.Authorities in Russia say a woman...
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Iran is tormenting the Baha'i people - is Canada going to do anything about it?
Terry GlavinNational PostApril 20, 2016 You’d have to go for a very long walk to find a religious tradition as benign as the Baha’i faith. The Baha’i mark the holiest days of the year during the 12-day...
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Don Macpherson: Your Quebec tax money at work: a study on 'Pastafarianism'
DON MACPHERSONMONTREAL GAZETTEApril 25, 2016 If you haven’t filed your Quebec income-tax return yet (you have until midnight May 2), maybe you shouldn’t read this column about how your provincial tax...
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'Sister Wives' ask federal court for re-hearing of polygamy case
BEN WINSLOWFox13 Now APRIL 25, 2016 SALT LAKE CITY — Reality TV polygamist Kody Brown and his wives are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider their lawsuit against the state of Utah over its...
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Why Are So Many Christians Obsessed With Predicting the Rapture?
Christians have historically been fixated on the end of the world. The reasons are more complex than they appear.Laura Ortberg TurnerPacific StandardApril 22, 2016Viktor Vasnetsov’s Four Horsemen of...
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With Psychic Jailed, Her Family Kept Telling Fortunes
MICHAEL WILSONNew York TimesAPRIL 25, 2016The storefront of Priscilla Kelly DelmaroPriscilla Kelly Delmaro sat for months in jail in Rikers Island last year, but her fortunetelling parlor in Times...
View ArticlePolice raid Church of Scientology in Tatarstan, March 29, 2016
Published on Apr 6, 2016At 7 a.m. on March 29, 2016 police raided the Church of Scientology in Naberezhnye Chelny in the central Russian Republic of Tatarstan.
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Beautiful society girl 'stolen' from a loving family by her mysterious dream...
Victoria Cayzer cut ties with family after falling under influence of a 'healer'Therapist was Anne Craig, a self-described 'personal development coach'Her grandmother Lindy Ticehurst, 78, wants to see...
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Schools of millenarianism
How end-of-days beliefs clash with one another, and with artERASMUSThe EconomistApril 24, 2016 THERE are two religious movements, both much concerned with eschatology or the end times for humanity...
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Indigo Childen: When ADD Becomes a Cult
DEREK BERESBig ThinkApril 22, 2016 Hawk Lane desires nothing more than to leave high school. Meyerist rules state that he must remain among the IS’s—Ignorant Systemites, Meyerist slang for us ordinary...
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Bountiful turned teen off faith
PHILIP RAPHAELRICHMOND NEWS APRIL 26, 2016 Maggie RaynerWalt Disney’s movies were fine. Elvis flicks — strictly forbidden.Those were the kind of restrictions Maggie Rayner grew up with in her family...
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Germany opens files on Nazi paedophile sect in Chile
The Local.deApril 27, 2016 Colonia DignidadGermany is declassifying its files on Colonia Dignidad, a sect in Chile run by a Nazi paedophile, Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday, admitting the...
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Alberta naturopath faces investigation after parents convicted in toddler's...
Tom Blackwell National PostApril 26, 2016 David Stephan and his wife Collet StephanAlberta regulators say they will investigate a local naturopath and her role in the troubling case of a toddler who...
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