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Monday April 23, 2007
Cults • Twelve Tribes:
The beginning the rest of Matthew Klein’s life began one crisp morning in October 2001, on a street corner in a red light district of Winnipeg, Canada. That was the day he got thrown out of The Twelve Tribes, a fundamentalist Christian cult with about 3000 members worldwide.
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Sunday March 4, 2007
Cults:
About nine years ago, Sally Meyer’s middle daughter, Barbara, phoned and told Meyer she could never see her or her 2-year-old grandson, Robert, again. Barbara said Meyer and her husband, Dennis, needed to repent and seek the Lord.
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Thursday December 21, 2006
Cults:
A 32-year-old Cretan farmer, who was in the hospital yesterday after shooting himself twice, tried to commit suicide after allegedly being brainwashed by a religious sect operating on the island, the man’s relatives maintain.
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Saturday December 9, 2006
Cults:
The Anglican diocese of Sydney is in danger of acting more like a cult than a church in its attempts to suppress dissent and diversity, says one of its ministers.
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Wednesday December 6, 2006
Cults:
Italian police have set up a special task force of investigators and psychologists to fight the growing number of sect-related crimes.
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Tuesday October 24, 2006
Cults:
One of the world’s most senior Christian leaders said Monday there needs to be a clearer distinction in China between genuine religious organizations and criminal cults.
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Monday July 17, 2006
Cults:
The Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a breakaway group from the Roman Catholic Church, considered themselves as a Noah’s Ark of purity. To them the rest of the world was irredeemably corrupt. They watched their tongues lest they slipped and uttered something sinful. On March 17 2000, members of the group numbering between 780 and 1,000 had an elaborate feast that involved consuming chunks of beef and downing litres upon litres of Coca Cola.
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Sunday June 25, 2006
Cults:
Polygamists, former members speak out at Denver meetings
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A 25-year-old research and education foundation that studies cultic phenomena is meeting this weekend.
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Monday June 19, 2006
Cults:
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: My sister says the group I'm thinking of joining is a cult, and I ought to stop going to their meetings. They've been very kind to me and I like them, but I don't want to do something wrong. What exactly is a cult? -- Mrs. F.Z.
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Monday June 5, 2006
Cults:
What can one do when their child becomes involved in a known cult or a questionable Church? The circumstances are not always the same, so there is no set pattern to use for ones deliverance. But there are some guidelines that can help before and afterward.
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Saturday April 22, 2006
Cults:
Cult expert Steve Hassan celebrates 30 years of cult counseling and providing cult information
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Sunday April 16, 2006
Cults:
Dressed in sneakers and jeans, they hang out along the edges of campuses, handing out fliers and calling out to passing college students.
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Thursday January 5, 2006
Cults:
Q. How can I know whether or not my sister has gotten involved with a cult? I admit they've done her a lot of good, but it's a fairly small denomination and I don't know anything about them. She says they believe in Jesus, but I'm not sure what they mean by that.
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Wednesday November 9, 2005
Cults:
The Rev. James Howard could remember it all like it was yesterday.
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Cults:
First Congregational Church presents cults seminar
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Wednesday October 26, 2005
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Sunday October 16, 2005
Cults:
College students recently delivered from the womb of adolescence have often found themselves prey for obsessive and potentially dangerous organizations.
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Wednesday October 5, 2005
Cults:
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- On a campus that is home to about 75 recognized religious groups, some students question the existence of cults at the University of Southern California.
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Wednesday September 7, 2005
Cults:
When perjury indictments of two high-ranking sheriff's deputies were handed down last spring, a jolly Democratic consultant publicly pooh-poohed the event, saying, "Listen, if the U.S. attorney wanted them to, these federal grand juries would indict Jesus Christ."
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Friday August 19, 2005
Cults:
Some New Zealand religious groups fit an internationally-recognised definition of a potential terrorist organisation, according to a Massey University specialist in world religions, Dr Heather Kavan.
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Thursday August 4, 2005
Cults:
More than three decades ago, two women from different backgrounds found themselves searching for a sense of belonging, and both, for a while, thought they'd found it in communal living. What they found instead was that they were immersed in cults, and once in, it was very difficult to leave.
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Thursday July 28, 2005
Cults:
Prevalence of Cults: A Review of Empirical Research in the U. S. A.
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Sunday June 12, 2005
Cults:
LAKE TWP. — Cults don’t necessarily use physical torture to get new members. More commonly, they demand time, emotional energy and other resources, said Ron Taggart of Cult Information Services of Northeast Ohio (CISNEO).
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Monday May 30, 2005
Cults:
ALBANY — Few people probably know more about cults than Paul R. Martin and Liz Shaw of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in southern Ohio.
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