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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Cults</title>
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	<description>Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>All God&#8217;s children? Another tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about the child abuse in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Yearning for Zion community in Texas is painfully frustrating for cult specialists like me. Having worked with cultists and former cultists for more than 30 years, I am amazed and disheartened at the inability of authorities to learn from history.]]></description>
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		<title>Texas sect victims now face a reality shock</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21155/flds-cults</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They have escaped from a bizarre world of polygamous sex - but the girls of the West Texan sect may soon wish they could return to it, writes Tim Guest, who spent his own childhood in a notorious religious commune himself.]]></description>
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		<title>Children of Polygamy: Life Outside the Compound</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21101/flds-45</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The children removed from Jeffs' compound will likely suffer from terrifying phobias, says cult expert Steven Hassan. "In the mind of someone who has a phobia, they can't imagine [living outside the compound] will have a positive result," said Hassan. "They'll develop phobias of losing their salvation or burning in hell."]]></description>
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		<title>When cults turn bad</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21004/cults-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Destructive cults make an appeal to social contributions, which turn out to be fronts for recruitment and fundraising, solely for increasing the wealth and prestige of the leader. Members surrender their possessions, money, time and lives to their leaders.]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama criticised over cult-like rallies</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20745/obama-cult</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many it is simply a sign of his charisma. But for a growing number of Barack Obama sceptics, there is something disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House - unnervingly akin to the hysteria of a cult, or the fervour of a religious revival.]]></description>
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		<title>The debate on sects continues in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[French chief of staff Emmanuelle Mignon has tried to correct some of the controversial quotes attributed to her on the subject of sects. In an interview with the publication VSD, she reportedly said that “sects were a non-problem in France”.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: The bewitching lure of home-grown cults</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20535/cults-russia</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Russian Orthodox Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a troubling mysticism is emerging in Russia, attracting up to 800,000 followers, experts say.]]></description>
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		<title>CounterCultSearch.com</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20478/cult-search-engine</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20478/cult-search-engine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CounterCultSearch.com search engine allows you to search for information about (religious) cults and related issues across 200+ websites and blogs dedicated to cult research, spiritual abuse, ex-cult counseling &#038; support.]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20138/cult-watch</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20138/cult-watch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their targets used to be university students, but today fringe religious groups are believed to be recruiting school-aged children. ]]></description>
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		<title>Russian sects in spotlight as doomsday cult refuses to budge</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19983/cults-in-russia</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the drama around the Russian sect awaiting the apocalypse in a cave in the country's Penza Region continues to unfold, media reports of other isolated and extreme Christian groups have begun to emerge.]]></description>
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