http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:08:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26351/hypnosis-for-eating-disorder-led-to-false-memories-about-satanic-cult-abuse-suit-says http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26351/hypnosis-for-eating-disorder-led-to-false-memories-about-satanic-cult-abuse-suit-says#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:26:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26351 Updated A woman claims a psychologist at an eating-disorder clinic hypnotized her while she was on psychotropic drugs, inducing false memories of being raped and belonging to a satanic cult.

She claims he did this recklessly, "based partly on her ability to pay for long-term continuous inpatient services," and told her that that if she sued, "her perpetration of various criminal and horrific acts of abuse would be revealed".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26351/hypnosis-for-eating-disorder-led-to-false-memories-about-satanic-cult-abuse-suit-says/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26256/girl-burned-in-satanic-ritual http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26256/girl-burned-in-satanic-ritual#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:55:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26256 A South African teenage girl is in a coma after she and a friend were doused with petrol and set alight.

A police spokeswoman said there was speculation the attack was a satanic ritual, but they still needed to investigate this.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26256/girl-burned-in-satanic-ritual/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24101/psychologist-who-believes-in-satanic-ritual-abuse-banned http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24101/psychologist-who-believes-in-satanic-ritual-abuse-banned#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:27:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24101 Australia: A psychologist who helped perform exorcisms on his patients and believed in "satanic abuse" has been banned from practising by the state's health watchdog.

Mark Edward Tynan, of the western Sydney-based Christian group Servants of Jesus, was found to have blurred his spiritual beliefs and professional duties, placing clients in "grave risk of harm".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24101/psychologist-who-believes-in-satanic-ritual-abuse-banned/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23872/prosecutor-not-malicious-in-satanic-sex-abuse-case-canadas-supreme-court-says http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23872/prosecutor-not-malicious-in-satanic-sex-abuse-case-canadas-supreme-court-says#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:33:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23872 The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a Crown prosecutor was not acting maliciously when he prosecuted 12 members of a Saskatchewan family in the early 1990s after three foster children accused them of sexual abuse and bizarre satanic ritual abuse.

In 1993, criminal charges against all but one member of the Klassen family were stayed and the children later admitted they had made up the story.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23872/prosecutor-not-malicious-in-satanic-sex-abuse-case-canadas-supreme-court-says/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22575/hosanna-church-satanic-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22575/hosanna-church-satanic-cult#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:56:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22575 After the trial of Louis Lamonica, Richard Ofshe said he could have offered the jury insight into the nature of cults to help them understand what was happening at Hosanna. He said he could have told them there is no such thing as satanic cults that abuse children.

If the initial statements of the children and suspects indicate the abuse occurred as part of a satanic cult — something that has never happened — then the truth of everything alleged in that statement is questionable, Ofshe said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22575/hosanna-church-satanic-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20463/cesar-beguiristain http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20463/cesar-beguiristain#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:29:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20463/cesar-beguiristain http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20463/cesar-beguiristain/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19773/gerald-robinson-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19773/gerald-robinson-3#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:58:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19773/gerald-robinson-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19773/gerald-robinson-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17223/gerald-robinson-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17223/gerald-robinson-2#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:54:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17223/gerald-robinson-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17223/gerald-robinson-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17222/civil-suit-against-gerald-robinson-dismissed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17222/civil-suit-against-gerald-robinson-dismissed#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:35:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17222/civil-suit-against-gerald-robinson-dismissed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17222/civil-suit-against-gerald-robinson-dismissed/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16878/african-children-at-risk-of-ritual-abuse http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16878/african-children-at-risk-of-ritual-abuse#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:07:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16878/african-children-at-risk-of-ritual-abuse exorcisms. Concern has been growing about the impact on children of such ritual practices.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16878/african-children-at-risk-of-ritual-abuse/feed 0