http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:21:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 11:39:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24299 The acts of abuse include violently throwing the children around by their arms and legs, leaving a child in an electric oven until his hair burned, placing a child in a suitcase for three days, feeding a child excrement and other extreme acts of abuse.

The cult leader's trial is still ongoing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 06:17:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24277 A disciple of accused cult leader Elior Chen was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to shaking, burning and tying up her eight children.

The woman, identified only as M., received a lenient sentence in exchange for testifying against Chen and others.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24176/imprisoned-cult-leader-elior-chen-refusing-to-grant-wife-divorce http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24176/imprisoned-cult-leader-elior-chen-refusing-to-grant-wife-divorce#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:36:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24176 The leader of a Jerusalem cult facing charges of child abuse, Elior Chen, told a rabbinical court yesterday that he is refusing to grant a get, or Jewish divorce, to the mother of his alleged victims.

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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24176/imprisoned-cult-leader-elior-chen-refusing-to-grant-wife-divorce/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23880/indictment-against-rabbi-elior-chen-shook-beat-fed-children-feces http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23880/indictment-against-rabbi-elior-chen-shook-beat-fed-children-feces#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:52:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23880 The Jerusalem District Prosecution issued an indictment against Elior Chen, known as "the abusive rabbi," for a series of grave abuse charges he allegedly committed against children in his care.

Chen was not charged with attempted murder, but the indictment claims that he abused and assaulted minors in eight separate cases. In addition, he allegedly encouraged members of the group he led to make "corrections" in their children by shaking, beating, binding, and burning them. He also instructed his followers to withhold food and drink from their children and to feed them excrement.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23880/indictment-against-rabbi-elior-chen-shook-beat-fed-children-feces/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:03:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23796 Chen is wanted in Israel for his involvement in a sadistic cult thought to have committed numerous counts of child abuse.

Chen, a self-styled rabbi, allegedly influenced members of his flock to abuse their children in order to "correct their corrupt souls."

According to an indictment, the rabbi instructed one mother to conduct “tikkunim” on her children – “meaning, jolting, beating, tying, burning organs, feeding them with faeces, and more.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21587 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21215/elior-chen-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21215/elior-chen-5#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:07:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21215/elior-chen-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21215/elior-chen-5/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21133/elior-chen-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21133/elior-chen-4#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:54:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21133/elior-chen-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21133/elior-chen-4/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21134/shimon-gabai-elior-chen http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21134/shimon-gabai-elior-chen#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:54:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21134/shimon-gabai-elior-chen http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21134/shimon-gabai-elior-chen/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21132/elior-chen-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21132/elior-chen-3#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:42:10 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21132/elior-chen-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21132/elior-chen-3/feed 0