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/26541/scientologys-child-labor-camp-in-australia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26541/scientologys-child-labor-camp-in-australia#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:24:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26541 In the middle of suburban Australia is a secret compound that's labelled 'degrading' and 'inhumane', with allegations of keeping children prisoner.

Australia's current affairs program Tonight Today reports on Scientology's prison camp.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26541/scientologys-child-labor-camp-in-australia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26540 The Philippines Supreme Court has denied with finality the appeal of Dinagat Islands Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. seeking to reverse the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court’s 2006 ruling convicting him and two other people of graft and sending them to 31 years in prison.

Ecleo still faces an often-delayed trial on charges that he committed parricide by murdering his wife Alona in January, 2002.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:49:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26538 Wearing a full-length black niqab -- with only her brown eyes showing through narrow slits -- Widad Lootah does not look like a sexual activist.

Yet this conservative Muslim is one of the best known -- and most outspoken -- marriage counselors in the United Arab Emirates.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26535 Police in South Korea arrested a pastor and his wife Saturday after three of their four children were found dead.

The couple has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and starving their children to death]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:07:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26532 The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.

Koper’s complaint is directed against two attorneys who handle some of TBN's legal work.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:11:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26530 Just one day after parents in Washington were charged in the faith healing death of the teenaged son, an Oregon couple belonging to the same church have been arrested in the faith healing death of their 16-year-old son.

They belong to a church is known for its unbiblical teachings beliefs regarding faith healing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:05:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26529 The former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs says in a new lawsuit that sect leaders arranged a nighttime burglary that gutted his business after he was excommunicated for refusing to falsify sect records on Jeffs’ marriages to underage girls.

Willie Jessop, a onetime Jeffs bodyguard and sect spokesman, is seeking more than $100 million in damages for business losses, repayment of money he loaned for sect legal expenses and compensation for abuse his family has suffered since leaving the group.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26527/parents-charges-in-faith-healing-death-of-teenage-son http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26527/parents-charges-in-faith-healing-death-of-teenage-son#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:15:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26527 Parents in Carlton, WA who police say unsuccessfully tried to faith-heal their son back to health have been charged with second-degree murder.

The charges against Gregory P. Swezey, 47, and Garnet JaLea Swezey, 45, in Okanogan County Superior Court come nearly three years after Zachery, 17, died of a burst appendix at their home on March 18, 2009.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26527/parents-charges-in-faith-healing-death-of-teenage-son/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26525/bizarre-sex-scandal-within-toronto%e2%80%99s-jesus-first-church-concludes-as-pastor-found-not-guilty-of-sex-assault http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26525/bizarre-sex-scandal-within-toronto%e2%80%99s-jesus-first-church-concludes-as-pastor-found-not-guilty-of-sex-assault#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:58:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26525 The pastor of a scandal-plagued church in Toronto, Canada, was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a member of his congregation.

Jae-Kap Song had been accused of telling a parishioner that evil spirits would turn her into a hunchback-like creature, before sexually assaulting her.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26525/bizarre-sex-scandal-within-toronto%e2%80%99s-jesus-first-church-concludes-as-pastor-found-not-guilty-of-sex-assault/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26523 A bill under which Colorado City, Arizona -- a town controlled by leaders of the polygamous FLDS cult -- would be forced to disband its police force has advanced in the Arizona Legislature.

While the bill does not mention the town by name, Attorney General Tom Horne says that officers in Colorado City have actively interfered with the law.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city/feed 0