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In downtown Clearwater, Scientology's bid for an expanded role is a matter of...
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White nationalists are now recruiting at college campuses
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View ArticleWitness ban, Russia rebuke grows
NewsDayApril 2, 2017 THE Kremlin threat to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from worshipping in Russia has received widespread condemnation across the world after the United States Helsinki Commission yesterday...
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'Happiness Academy': Film Review
Frank ScheckHollywood ReporterApril 3, 2017Kaori Kinoshita and Alain Della Negra's documentary/fiction hybrid examines a retreat for the members of the Raelian Church.It’s hard to know what to make...
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What it was like to grow up at Mangrove Yoga Ashram
news.com.auApril 4, 2017GROWING up at the notorious Mangrove Yoga Ashram, then known as Satyananda Ashram, Sandra* was a victim of physical and mental abuse.Last year, the Royal Commission into...
View ArticleScientology-linked drug rehab centre sued over $150,000 sniffer dog bills
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View ArticlePope Francis' Approval of SSPX Marriages Offers Hopeful Step to Unity
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View ArticleThe Souls of China by Ian Johnson - the resurgence of religion after Mao
The author meets Taoist musicians, rebel Christians and celebrity Zen Buddhists – but communism is the official faithJulia LovellThe GuardianApril 7, 2017 In the spring of last year, Xi Jinping –...
View ArticleRUSSIA: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES BREAK LAW BY REFUSING BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
JASON LE MIERE NewsweekApril 6, 2017Jehovah’s Witnesses break the law forbidding “extremism” when its members refuse blood transfusions, Russia’s Justice Ministry said Thursday at a Supreme Court...
View ArticleIn Canada, Where Muslims Are Few, Group Stirs Fear of Islamists
CRAIG S. SMITHThe New York TimesAPRIL 5, 2017STONEHAM-ET-TEWKESBURY, Quebec — Patrick Beaudry, bejeweled, tattooed and bearded, lives on a remote wooded hillside in rural Quebec, worrying about living...
View ArticleTemple Terrace woman plans roadside plea to Chinese president over imprisoned...
Tony Marrero,Tampa Bay TimesApril 6, 2017One day in 2006, Iris Lu came home from high school in rural southern China to find her family's home ransacked and her mother gone.Cuiping Deng, a primary...
View ArticleReligious group moves to Bohemia after conflicts in Germany
10 APRIL 2017The Twelve Tribes religious group, infamous for its four-year-old scandal over an alleged maltreatment of children in Germany, their homeland, has moved to central Bohemia and settled on...
View ArticleScientology leader David Miscavige presents Clearwater retail plan to...
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View ArticleWho are the new jihadis?
Olivier RoyThe GuardianApril 13, 2017 There is something new about the jihadi terrorist violence of the past two decades. Both terrorism and jihad have existed for many years, and forms of “globalised”...
View ArticleRussia labels 'Jehovah's Witnesses' as extremists and tries to ban them from...
Russia labels ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ as extremists and tries to ban them from the countryAmanda EricksonWashington PostApril 14, 2017In Russia, there's a database of extremists. It includes members of...
View ArticleWhy, as a former believer, I am against the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
Lloyd Evans, Contributor Ex-Jehovah’s Witness author, activist and filmmakerHuffington PostApril 4, 2017Over the last week, Jehovah’s Witnesses globally have been frantically writing and mailing...
View ArticleHow state television framed a bunch of university students to make this...
Russia’s Phony Jehovah’s WitnessesDaria Litvinova and Katie DaviesThe Moscow TimesApril 10, 2017When Jehovah's Witnesses arrived at the Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, crowds lined the...
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Catholic university bans yoga 'because of eastern mysticism'
Students warned of 'dangers of the practice of yoga' and college president says it is better to be 'safe than sorry'Will Worley The IndependentApril 14, 2017 A Catholic university has banned yoga...
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Polygamy trial set to begin for Winston Blackmore, accused of marrying 24 times
Police first investigated allegations against Blackmore in the '90sCBCThe Canadian Press April 17, 2017 A decades-long legal battle culminates in British Columbia on Tuesday with the start of a trial...
View ArticleIsrael Police Raid ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper, Arrest 28 in Extortion Case
Followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach are suspected of threatening executives at major companies so that they place ads in the paperYair Ettinger HaaretzApril 18, 2017 The police Tuesday arrested 28...
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