http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26287/feds-arrest-4-in-ricin-attack-plot http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26287/feds-arrest-4-in-ricin-attack-plot#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:53:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26287 U.S. Federal agents arrested four suspected members of a Georgia militia on charges of plotting attacks with toxins and explosives in Atlanta and against unnamed government officials.

]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26287/feds-arrest-4-in-ricin-attack-plot/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24217/fbi-sees-little-chance-of-copycat-militia-plots http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24217/fbi-sees-little-chance-of-copycat-militia-plots#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:33:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24217 There's a lot of anger out there. But the alleged plot by Midwestern militants and violent outbursts by scattered individuals don't signal any coming wave of extremist violence, federal investigators say.

There's more fizzle than fight among self-styled militias and other groups right now, they say, and little chance of a return to the organized violence that proved so deadly in the 1990s.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24217/fbi-sees-little-chance-of-copycat-militia-plots/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24214/indictment-hutaree-militia-planned-to-murder-officer-attack-funeral http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24214/indictment-hutaree-militia-planned-to-murder-officer-attack-funeral#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:38:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24214 "Captain Hutaree," his wife and two sons planned with other militia members to kill a law enforcement official to draw the officer's colleagues to the funeral, authorities say.

Then, according to an indictment unsealed Monday, the militia planned to attack the funeral procession to kick off its war against the U.S. government.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24214/indictment-hutaree-militia-planned-to-murder-officer-attack-funeral/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24213/hutaree-militia-group-members-to-be-charged http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24213/hutaree-militia-group-members-to-be-charged#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:25:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24213 Federal prosecutors plan to unseal charges today against members of a self-described Christian militia arrested Saturday and Sunday in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

At least seven people were taken into custody in raids by an FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based unit of the Hutaree, a group that professes it is training in modern armed combat techniques for a prophesized coming battle with the Antichrist.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24213/hutaree-militia-group-members-to-be-charged/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24207/seven-arrested-in-fbi-raids-linked-to-christian-militia-group-hutaree http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24207/seven-arrested-in-fbi-raids-linked-to-christian-militia-group-hutaree#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:03:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24207 At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said.

Other other militia members say that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24207/seven-arrested-in-fbi-raids-linked-to-christian-militia-group-hutaree/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6854/9-years-after-oklahoma-city-blast-militias-remain-shadowy-groups-in-us http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6854/9-years-after-oklahoma-city-blast-militias-remain-shadowy-groups-in-us#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:54:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=6854 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6854/9-years-after-oklahoma-city-blast-militias-remain-shadowy-groups-in-us/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2839/california-militias-revive-their-rhetoric http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2839/california-militias-revive-their-rhetoric#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:09:52 +0000 Editor http:/?p=2839 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2839/california-militias-revive-their-rhetoric/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2522/patriot-games http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2522/patriot-games#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2003 02:46:45 +0000 Editor http:/?p=2522 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2522/patriot-games/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1322/homegrown-radicalism-book-examines-anti-semitic-roots-of-phenomenon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1322/homegrown-radicalism-book-examines-anti-semitic-roots-of-phenomenon#comments Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:42:43 +0000 Editor http:/?p=1322 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1322/homegrown-radicalism-book-examines-anti-semitic-roots-of-phenomenon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1230/inmate-sues-prison-over-spiritual-worship http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1230/inmate-sues-prison-over-spiritual-worship#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:57:41 +0000 Editor http:/?p=1230 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1230/inmate-sues-prison-over-spiritual-worship/feed 0