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		<title>Killing for the cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ritual murder of an elderly sushi-shop owner by a gang of women has exposed the secrets of a bizarre Japanese cult, and shone a disturbing light on the nation’s weakness for extreme religions.]]></description>
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		<title>15 members of Kigenkai religious group indicted for death of member</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior member Yasuko Kubota has denied ordering the beating of Motoko Okuno.]]></description>
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		<title>Police arrest 6 more women in sect death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sushi restaurant owner Motoko Okuno, 63, died last month after a mass beating at the Kigenkai sect’s headquarters in Komoro city, Nagano prefecture (state), local police official Toshio Gomyo said.]]></description>
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		<title>7 more Kigenkai cultists face arrest for beating woman to death</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19770/kigenkai-6</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will bring the number of those arrested for fatally assaulting 63-year-old Motoko Okuno to 30, including two members of the victim’s family.]]></description>
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		<title>Kooky cultists&#8217; condom controversy explodes into deadly discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okuno's beating apparently stemmed from one of the cult's regular "reflection gatherings," where cultists started criticizing Michiko Mori and Yuji Ike over their lax lifestyle.]]></description>
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		<title>Senior sect member seen as key player in woman&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kubota is a relative of the founder of the Shinto-linked religious organization, headquartered in Komoro, Nagano Prefecture. ]]></description>
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		<title>Suspects fear reprisals, cover for cultists in woman&#8217;s gang-bashing death</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19662/kingenkai</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four related members of holy water cult Kigenkai who were arrested in connection with the fatal gang bashing of a sushi restaurant owner fear reprisals and may be covering up the involvement of other cultists in the elderly woman's death, police said Tuesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Police raid Japanese cult&#8217;s headquarters after woman is beaten to death</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19656/kigenkai-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The headquarters of an obscure Japanese cult, whose devotees toss dead sardines and fruit into local rivers as a purification ritual, was raided today after one of its followers was beaten to death.]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: Religious group raided over suspicious death of 63-year-old follower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigators suspect that Okuno was beaten by her 35-year-old husband, her 37-year-old daughter and several other members of the religious group.]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese sect raided by 400 police officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of police raided a mostly female sect in central Japan today on suspicion that a member was beaten to death for failing to carry out her religious rites.]]></description>
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