The death of an 8-month old son of a Philadelphia ‘faith healing’ couple already on probation for the negligence death of another child has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner.

Herbert and Catherine Schaible have been charged with third-degree murder.

Updated Israeli police have arrested man whom they suspect of leading a violent cult community that routinely practiced child abuse.

The group of people he controlled consisted of six families, including 11 parents and 25 children.

The pastor and five other leaders or Singapore’s City Harvest Church are on trial for alleged embezzlement.

Prosecutors say the six siphoned off nearly $40 million of church funds in a scheme to boost the career of pop singer Sun Ho, wife of pastor Kong Hee.

In October, 2011, two teenage girls were doused with petrol and set alight on a hill south of Johannesburg, South Africa, in what authorities, prosecutors and the accused say was a Satanic ritual killing.

Federal prosecutors and attorneys are seeking the seizure of more buildings from cult leader Tony Alamo — who is serving a 175-year prison sentence for taking girls as young as nine as his ‘wives.’

The properties are to be sold in order to satisfy judgements against Alamo.

Seven children of a Herbert and Catherine Schaible, couple under investigation in the death of their 8-month old son, have received court-ordered medical examinations and any needed immunizations.

The Schaible’s are members of the First Century Gospel Church, which teaches that a person’s salvation depends on trusting God to heal without medical help or medicine.

The trial of John Fraser, assistant pastor of the controversial ‘Sound Doctrine Church’ in Washington state, continues today.

Fraser stands accused of child rape and molestation charges.

A fugitive Chilean cult leader who allegedly sacrificed a living baby on a bonfire in the believe the child was the ‘Antichrist’ has been found dead in Peru in an apparent suicide.

Most members of the tiny cult have been captured. International arrest warrants are still out for the remaining fugitives.

Televangelist Benny Hinn teaches that they way to get out of debt is to ‘sow seeds’ — a euphemism for ‘donating money.’

But this prosperity teaching scam is not working for Hinn himself, as evidenced by the fact that he is now asking for donations to get him out of debt.

Police in Chile have arrested members of a tiny religious cult for allegedly burning a baby alive on a bonfire in the belief that the child was the ‘antichrist.’

Cult leader Ramón Gustavo Castillo Gaete, who claims to be a deity, remains at large.

Prosecutors are awaiting the autopsy results of an 8-months-old boy whose ‘faith healing only’ parents are on probation in the 2009 death of their 2-year-old son.

The parents attend a church whose false teachings regarding faith, healing and salvation are a form of spiritual abuse.

The book To Train Up A Child, by Michael and Debi Pearl, has featured in several murder investigations.

While their influence is not as great as some people think, far too many Christians buy into this couple’s dangerous teachings.

Prosperity preacher Juanita Bynum was arrested for failing to make court-ordered payments to an entertainment agency.

The agency had paid her for performing in a play that never materialized.

A faith healing couple who are members of a church that shuns doctors and medicine have lost a second child.

Convicted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment, two years ago the couple were sentenced to probation under the stipulation that they schedule regular medical appointments for all their children.

On April 19, 1993, a 50-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidians cult compound near Waco, Texas, end in an inferno that killed 76 people, including 21 children.

To-date what really happened back then is still being debated — and lessons are still being learned.