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Scientology

Cult gives up fight against surveillance. Again tries 'human rights' PR move.

FLDS

Boys in polygamous cult may have been abused as well

Strong City

Cult leader and 'Messiah' Michael Travesser arrested on sex charges

Cult Murder?

A small religious cult may have murdered a toddler

Friday May 9, 2008

Scientology:
The internet pranksters who started a war

They’ve become the sworn enemies of a controversial religion, famous for unsettling online video attacks and protesting en masse in creepy masks. But the elusive internet group known as Anonymous didn’t start out with a concrete plan to bring down Scientology. Before they got serious, Anonymous members say, they were only in it for laughs.
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FLDS, Polygamy:
Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families

An Associated Press analysis of the records, which authorities seized in a raid last month, show that by the time a girl reached 16, she was more likely to be married than to live as a child in her father’s household. The same was not true for boys.
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FLDS, Polygamy:
State faces new headache over immunizing sect children

Some parents worry that even if they don’t want their children immunized, they will appear uncooperative with the state and risk losing their child forever.
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Catholic Church, Mormonism/Mormon Church:
Vatican trying to avoid baptism by proxy

The Roman Catholic Church has recently directed dioceses worldwide not to give parish information to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The move is to prevent LDS Church members from baptizing by proxy Catholic ancestors.
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Thursday May 8, 2008

Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
Bond lowered for N.M. sect leader accused of sex crimes

Bent, 66, is the leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church, whose members moved in 2000 to a remote former ranch near the Colorado line that they call Strong City. He has acknowledged having sex with followers and lying naked with virgins, but denies any children or adults were molested. He has said the virgins asked for sex and he refused.
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Heavenly Jerusalem, True Russian Orthodox Church:
Don’t speak: doomsday cult communicates using psalms and notes

Authorities say the only subject that cult members agree to discuss is about living conditions in the cave. They answer to all other questions by singing psalms or writing.
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FLDS, Polygamy:
Raid on Sect in Texas Rattles Other Polygamists

Fierce winds of change — from national political attitudes about polygamy to new economic stress and even down to the personal decisions about where to live in a post-Eldorado world — are buffeting the polygamist faithful.
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Prosperity Teaching, Televangelists:
Christian leaders question D.C. probe of prosperity televangelists

Nearly two-dozen conservative Christian leaders have signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee questioning an investigation into six large ministries that preach a gospel of prosperity.
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Heavenly Jerusalem, Pyotr Kuznetsov, True Russian Orthodox Church:
Reclusive Penza sect members dig out well in underground cave

Sect members still staying in the cave have not signaled any date of their possible coming out.
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EMOs, Suicide:
Girl, 13, hangs herself after becoming obsessed with Emo ’suicide cult’ rock band

On her Bebo page Miss Bond, who used the online name Living Disaster and has internet friends with names like Sam Suicide, said she was obsessed with the hugely popular My Chemical Romance band, whose hit number one with their last album The Black Parade. Her mother, Heather Bond, told the court how she learned The Black Parade is “where you go when you die” as she researched the emo fad.
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Scientology:
Internet Group Schedules Another Protest Of Scientology

For the fourth time in as many months, the Internet-based group Anonymous will stage a protest against the Church of Scientology in downtown Clearwater.
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Summum:
Fringe sect’s lawsuit delays monument to fallen WWII soldiers

A Utah religion whose followers practice mummification is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that is delaying a permanent home for a World War II monument honoring fallen American servicemen.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
N.M. sect leader, jailed awaiting court appearance, refuses food

Bent—whose adopted name Travesser is the name of a creek in the area—is a former Seventh-day Adventist minister who separated from that church in 1987 and formed The Lord Our Righteousness movement. He announced in 2000 that he is the Messiah.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
New Mexico Compound’s Enraptured Believers

There is much to make the jaw drop in “Inside a Cult,” a timely documentary about the Strong City sect in New Mexico being shown on Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. But by its end you may feel that the most stunning thing is that this film exists at all. Why would these people have let a documentarian get so close to their exceedingly eccentric world?
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Wednesday May 7, 2008

Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
Journey to the center of a cult

Take a look inside the religious cult led by Wayne Bent (aka Michael Travesser), the cult leader arrested yesterday on sex charges.
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Transcendental Meditation:
Maharishi group faces building fines

The Maharishi commune in the village of Vlodrop, Netherlands, faces fines of up to €10,000 a time for breaking building regulations on its estate, Dutch TV reports on Tuesday.
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Islam, Taliban:
Taleban return to attacking girls’ schools in Afghanistan

Considered by many Muslims to be a cult of Islam, the Taleban consists of a bunch of ruthless morans who think they are practising the purest form of Islam.
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Scientology:
Jive Aces defend Scientology promo

A jazz band uses a popular jazz festival as a recruitment opportunity for the Scientology cult.
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Heavenly Jerusalem, Pyotr Kuznetsov, True Russian Orthodox Church:
Russian court bans Doomsday cult books

Religious writings by doomsday cult leader Pyotr Kuzntsov have been declared illegal by a court in Russia’s Penza Region. The books were found to carry extremist ideas aimed at inciting hatred towards other religions and nationalities.
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Tuesday May 6, 2008

Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
Self-Described Messiah Arrested After State Removed Three Teens From N.M. Compound

A self-described Messiah was arrested on sex charges involving minors two weeks after state officials took three teenagers from his New Mexico compound amid allegations of sexual abuse, authorities in New Mexico confirmed to ABC News today.
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Scientology:
German Scientology church drops court challenge; adds human rights declaration to bylaws

Germany’s branch of the Church of Scientology said Tuesday it had dropped a legal battle in Muenster to prevent the nation’s domestic intelligence services from monitoring its activities. The cult still tries to use ‘human rights’ as a PR ploy.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church, Michael Travesser, Strong City:
New Mexico Apocalyptic Church Leader Michael Travesser Arrested on Sex Charges

Cult leader Michael Travesser, real name Wayne Bent, has been arrested. Bent has acknowledged having sex with followers — including his daughter-in-law — and lying naked with virgins. He said the virgins asked for sex, but he refused.
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Apostolic United Brethren:
Polygamist group buys up more than 900 acres in Utah

The Apostolic United Brotherhood has its eyes set on central Utah. In fact, members of the group have already bought the land and are starting to build homes.
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FLDS, Polygamy:
State ordered to help prosecute polygamist sect cases

The judge who last month ordered 463 children from a polygamist sect into state custody said the state attorney general should help with any criminal cases that may arise from an April raid on the sect’s ranch.
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FLDS, Polygamy:
Texas used seized FLDS records against polygamous sect

Census sheets found in a safe at a polygamous sect’s ranch in west Texas both support and contradict the state’s claim of a widespread culture of underage marriage.
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