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Merril Leroy Jessop faces up to life in prison.
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Jessop, a member of the polygamous sect, is charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.
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Hate Groups • Islam:
The officer, speaking to Radio Five Live’s Donal Macintyre show, told how younger prisoners were targeted for forced conversion to Islam by the gangs.
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The cult, known as Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandment of God, is said to have locked the believers in a huge church hall before using petrol to set it on fire
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Elior Chen:
Chen and several of his followers allegedly used knives, hammers and other instruments to abuse children as young as 3 and 4 years old in the ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement of Betar Ilit in February and March 2008.
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Christianity • Internet:
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Clayton said, “we are talking today about a transition equally as great.”
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Keryn’s decision to speak openly about her experiences comes after ABC1’s Four Corners program, The Ex-Files, in which former members told of forced abortions, pressure to work extreme hours and being forced to hand over large sums of money.
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Brisbane Christian Fellowship • Cults • Scientology:
He was also attracted to using the Trade Practices Act to prosecute groups for false and misleading conduct if they wrongly claimed to provide therapeutic benefits to their devotees.
The conference has heard a number of heart-rending stories from different religion-based and therapeutic cults.
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Senator Xenophon has been campaigning for an inquiry into the Church of Scientology and its tax exempt status.
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Scientology:
According to the makers of Until Nothing Remains, the €2.5m (£2.3 m) drama, which is due to air in a prime-time slot at the end of March, is based on the true story of Heiner von Rönns, who left Scientology and suffered the subsequent break-up of his family.
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Aum Shinrikyo:
Meanwhile one more fatality has been identified.
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Scientology:
Independent senator Nick Xenophon will next week introduce another motion for an inquiry into specific allegations against Scientology.
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But a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said LaRose had targeted the Swedish cartoonist and had online discussions about her plans with at least one of the suspects in Ireland.
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Quackery • Scientology:
“They are the deniers of the realities of mental illness, which I find incredibly irresponsible and dangerous,” he told ABC Radio on Wednesday.
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Free Speech • Islam:
Dagens Nyheter said in an editorial that “Vilks doesn’t stand alone in this conflict. A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes.”
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Hate Groups • Islam:
They were allegedly involved in an international plot to murder Lars Vilks whose controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet were printed in a newspaper in 2007.
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Islam • Religious Persecution:
According to Farsi Christian News Network, Rev. Wilson Issavi’s wife, Medline Nazanin, recently visited her husband in prison, where she saw that he had obvious signs of torture and was in poor condition. Iranian intelligence officials told Nazanin that her husband might be executed for his alleged activities.
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By disclosing the new information, investigators hope to stir public interest in watching the “America’s Most Wanted” episode scheduled to feature Simon’s case.
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Hate Groups • Islam:
The mostly ethnic Berom victims included many women and children killed with machetes by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. About 75 houses were also burned, according to Compass.
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Media:
Drawing on a review of the work of nearly 100 blogs, as well as detailed survey responses, “The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere” provides both empirical data and reflection on the impact of blogging at the intersection of religion, academia, and public life.
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Hate Groups:
The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church and uses free speech as an excuses for despicable behavior.
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Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • Neil Jeffrey Beagley:
The Beagleys and Worthingtons are members of the Followers of Christ Church. Members of the Oregon City church have a lengthy history of child deaths from lack of medical care that influenced a 1999 law eliminating the religious freedom defense in cases involving the welfare of a child.
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Aum Shinrikyo:
The widow of a man killed in the attack has made a documentary film in which she interviews other people victimized in the sarin attack.
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Several Australians have spoken out for the first time about their experiences with the church, accusing it of forced abortions, holding slave labour camps and exploiting child workers.
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