http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23422/religion-news-pareidolia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23422/religion-news-pareidolia#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:01:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23422 The RNB Religion News Roundup for Friday, Apr. 24, 2009 includes items about Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, Korean cult leader Jeong Myeong-Seok, the continuing popularity of Aum Shrinrikyo's jailed cult leader, and China's on-going ban on Falun Gong.

Also: • A US state must pay benefits to the wife of a Jehovah's Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion  • A killer turned pastor upsets his victim's son  • Nigerian preacher speaks out against witch hunts  • Vampire story gets demoted...

Plus: what do you see? Pareidolia?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23422/religion-news-pareidolia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23020/falun-gong-human-rights-deportation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23020/falun-gong-human-rights-deportation#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:35:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23020 A follower of the Falun Gong religious group and a failed asylum seeker did not have his human rights breached when Russian authorities deported him to China, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.

The 74-year-old retired professor, known only as Y, lived in St. Petersburg from April 2003 to May 2007. He had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Russia on a number of occasions, arguing he would be persecuted if sent back to China.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23020/falun-gong-human-rights-deportation/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:54:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22018 Members of the Falun Gong sect protested outside the congress of the International Congress of the Transplantation Society.

The sect members claim that China kills its followers in order to illegally harvest their organs.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 06:41:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21422 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20937/falun-gong-13 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20937/falun-gong-13#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:25:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20937/falun-gong-13 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20937/falun-gong-13/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20261/falun-gong-12 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20261/falun-gong-12#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:25:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20261/falun-gong-12 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20261/falun-gong-12/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19920/falun-gong-11 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19920/falun-gong-11#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:47:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19920/falun-gong-11 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19920/falun-gong-11/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19855/falun-gong-10 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19855/falun-gong-10#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:51:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19855/falun-gong-10 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19855/falun-gong-10/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19839/falun-gong-9 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19839/falun-gong-9#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:12:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19839/falun-gong-9 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19839/falun-gong-9/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18569/falun-gong-8 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18569/falun-gong-8#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:19:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18569/falun-gong-8 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18569/falun-gong-8/feed 0