Agape Ministries
Monday November 28, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
A disgruntled former Agape Ministries parishioner wants a refund for every item he bought for the cult, even the toilet paper. The District Court yesterday heard details of Martin Penney’s claim against the doomsday cult and its fugitive leader, Rocco Leo.
Tuesday November 1, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: A lawsuit by a disabled woman against fugitive Australian cult leader Rocco Leo has not been settled and will go to trial. Rocco Leo’s former followers claim he preached a doomsday scenario, promising them a new life on an island — financed by their donations — to save them from the end of the world.
Tuesday September 6, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Cult leader Rocco Leo will seek an out-of-court settlement with a former parishioner he allegedly duped, a court in Australia has heard. Followers claim Leo preached a doomsday scenario, saying he needed money to purchase
Monday August 8, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
Fugitive doomsday cult leader Rocco Leo is being detained with his girlfriend at his coastal hideout in Fiji. Earlier Leo, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend’s brother had been arrested for overstaying their visas.
Wednesday July 27, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: South Australian authorities will not pursue doomsday cult leader Rocco Leo over 126 fraud allegations. According to the public prosecutor a review of the evidence had determined there were no reasonable prospects of a conviction. In addition ex-members of the cult have been reluctant to speak out against their former leader.
Wednesday July 13, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says South Australian authorities have made no attempt to have cult leader Rocco Leo extradited from Fiji. Xenophon says it’s almost “Keystone Cops stuff” that police have yet to seek Leo’s extradition.
Thursday June 30, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Cult leader Rocco Leo has dodged financial doomsday by staging a last-minute court room resurrection over Skype. Leo is being sued by two former church members who claim they donated large sums to the church under false pretences.
Sunday June 26, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Australian Police are not looking to extradite fugitive cult leader Rocco Leo from Fiji, after he was arrested a week ago. “If Fijian authorities determine that they are going to deport Rocco Leo we will execute that (arrest) warrant and if Rocco Leo is deported back to Australia we will extradite him from whatever state it is back to SA to put him before the courts.”
Saturday June 25, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Australian cult leader Rocco Leo, who is wanted for charges ranging from tax evasion and assault to illegal possession of firearms and explosives, has been taken into the custody of Immigration authorities in Fiji. Leo has been on the run from Australian authorities for more than a year.
Thursday June 23, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: Fugitive Australian cult leader Rocco Leo may be forced to pay damages to former members of his religious group if he does not instruct a lawyer to attend a court hearing next week. Leo and two other Agape Ministries leaders, Joe and Marie Veneziano, are being sued in the Adelaide District Court by two former members of the group.
Monday June 20, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
An Agape Ministries cult member standing trial in Australia on weapons and ammunition-related charges is asking the court for permission to move to New Zealand in order to be with his dying father. Prosecutors consider Keven Andrew Moore a flight risk.
Thursday May 5, 2011
Agape Ministries • RNB's Religion News Blog: A man arrested after raids on Agape Ministries properties has gone on trial accused of possessing more than 22,000 rounds of ammunition. Kevin Andrew Moore, 51, has pleaded not guilty to seven weapon and ammunition related charges.
Friday January 21, 2011
Agape Ministries: It was supposed to be judgment day for Rocco Leo, but the cult leader has chosen to remain a fugitive because of threats made on his life. Leo chose not to attend court yesterday because of death threats – and against the advice of lawyers who have now resigned from the case.
Friday December 3, 2010
Agape Ministries: Australian Taxation Office lawyers today outlined “a very crude attempt to hide” millions of dollars received by the controversial Agape Ministries. Rocco Leo, his confidantes and their multi-million dollar, two-state empire are embroiled in three lawsuits and a criminal prosecution.
Wednesday November 24, 2010
Agape Ministries: Fallen religious leader Rocco Leo and his former church owe more than $4.1 million in unpaid taxes for 2009-10 alone, court documents claim. Those figures are just the tip of the iceberg for the Australian Tax Office, which last month stripped Agape of its tax-exempt status as a religion.
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Many churches and ministries use the name Agape Ministries. This news archive concerns a religious group with properties in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and led by Rocco Leo.
In May 2010 properties belonging to Agape Ministries were raided by Australian police. Police seized an arsenal of weapons, high-powered ammunition and explosives.
Former members reportedly claim that the religious group, referred to in the media as a ‘doomsday cult,’ promised them a haven on a South Pacific island, to protect them from microchips the government was planning to implant in all humans.
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