Satanism
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Wednesday January 28, 2009
Satanism:
The leader of a satanist sect in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia that included more than 60 members has been arrested and the group shut down, investigators announced on Wednesday.Investigators said the members rented a house where they “conducted cult ceremonies, including illegal acts of alcoholic binge drinking, sexual practices and antisocial behavior.”
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Tuesday January 13, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Paganism • Satanism • Witchcraft:
In the basement, officers find candles, Larry’s ritual knife, stained with DNA from one of the girls, a symbol of Baphomet, representing Satan and believed to have occult power, bells and an amulet with an inverted pentagram — all items used in rituals described in “The Satanic Bible.”Larry tells police he has a spell notebook in his and Marla’s bedroom closet. The notebook contains drawings from the book “Pagan Ways,” references found in the occult fiction book “Necronomicom” and page numbers corresponding to “The Satanic Bible,” including one specific spell.
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Tuesday December 16, 2008
Satanism:
An Evangelist preacher, his wife and their four-year-old daughter were all found dead inside their home at San Jose de Guanipa in El Tigrito, an oil town in Anzoategui state, east-central Venezuela, last Friday.
Investigators are working on a theory that the multiple slaying was carried out by people from some sort of satanic cult. They say the inside walls of the house had been painted with slogans suggesting such a connection.
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Tuesday September 16, 2008
Cannibalism • Satanism:
The three girls and one boy, all described as Goths and aged 16 and 17, were allegedly forced to drink alcohol by the gang before they were attacked.
The killers then allegedly lit a bonfire under a tree near their cottage in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, 300 miles north-east of Moscow, where they cooked and ate their victims’ body parts.
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Tuesday August 26, 2008
Satanism:
The parents of a South African schoolboy accused of killing a fellow student with a sword said Thursday that he had experimented with Satanism and was bullied.
“We regret to say that it appears that Morne experimented with Satanism and that it gave him a kind of protection for his psyche,” Machiel and Liza Harmse said in a statement in the Afrikaans daily newspaper Die Beeld.
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Tuesday August 5, 2008
Occultism • Satanism:
Harshbarger’s tale begins at home in Indiana, where a lack of religious guidance combined with his parents’ divorce led him to become a bitter, disaffected teen with an appetite for the sensational, including tales of supernatural phenomena.While in college, he befriended a co-worker at his day job who was already a Satanist. The two made plans to form their own cult and set about recruiting members.
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Friday July 11, 2008
Satanism:
An Indiana woman criticizing her ex-husband’s membership in the Church of Satan must wait until August for a judge to decide whether his religion is a reason to restrict his weekend visitation.
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Thursday July 3, 2008
Order of the Morning Star • Satanism:
Prosecutors in North Carolina have charged three people, including two ranking members of the Durham County Democratic Party, as part of an investigation into allegations of rape and kidnapping that prosecutors said involved satanic worship.
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Tuesday January 22, 2008
Satanism:
Satanists have struck at one of Turin’s most famous churches, stealing a vial of holy water and a missal, or prayer book.
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Tuesday January 8, 2008
Satanism:
The 21-year-old suspects “called themselves professed spiritual satanists,” Russell County Sheriff Tommy Boswell said Monday.
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Friday November 16, 2007
Satanism:
Afrikaans newspaper Rapport has scrapped writer Deon Maas’s column after his piece on Satanism prejudiced the paper’s commercial interests, its editor said on Thursday.
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Thursday November 15, 2007
Satanism:
Argentinian police are investigating the 2006 murder and mutilation of a 12-year-old homeless boy in northeastern Corrientes believed to be the work of satanic cults.
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Sunday November 4, 2007
Human Rights Violations • Satanism • USA:
The case against the West Memphis Three appears to have been more about rushed police work and hyped-up paranoia over non-existent Satanism than evidence. The suspects were just unfortunate to be social outcasts and to like rock music.
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Saturday September 29, 2007
Satanism:
Michael Sirois’ murder of two Christians he hated in 2004 was not likely the result of any satanic beliefs he held, a University of Waterloo professor said yesterday.
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Sunday September 2, 2007
Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
“The murders were not committed for the sake of the murder, rather they are typical of a cult-inspired ritual. Everything we found in the suspect’s house points to that conclusion,” Lukovic’ said.
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Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
Police found what they described as satanic cult literature while searching the suspect’s house. Manuals on body dismemberment were also discovered, unofficial sources say.
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Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion that he killed a 5-year-old boy and his uncle and dismembered them in a satanic ritual, Serbian police said.
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Wednesday August 15, 2007
Lazaro Galindo • Satanism:
A trial is underway Tuesday in a Miami-Dade courtroom for a self-proclaimed Satanic worshipper who recently found God.
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Lazaro Galindo • Satanism:
Lazaro Galindo, accused murderer and reformed Satanist, told a Miami-Dade jury Tuesday that he was really just a normal teenager seven years ago when prosecutors say he killed his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend.
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Monday August 13, 2007
Lazaro Galindo • Satanism:
Lazaro Galindo — accused killer, amateur attorney and until today a proclaimed Satanist — told a Miami-Dade Circuit judge today that he recently found God and was abandoning his plan to don special Satanic garb in court.
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Monday April 2, 2007
Satanism:
Bulgaria’s Satanists will demand their sect to be recognized and promulgated as an official religion by the Bulgarian Directorate on Ecclesiastical Matters, Standart newspaper reported Monday.
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
Satanism:
A Danish man accused of having sex with and pimping his 10-year-old daughter to a slew of men went on trial in Denmark in a case that has shocked the Scandinavian country.
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Monday January 8, 2007
Satanism:
The clerics have been seconded to the Squadra Anti Sette (SAS) anti-sect squad by the Vatican after Church officials became concerned about the number of churches being desecrated by Satanists. In recent months there have also been a string of murders that have been linked to devil worship.
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
Satanism:
Italian police want to set up a special unit to tackle the growth of new religious sects, particularly a violent new breed of home-grown Satanists.
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Thursday December 7, 2006
Italy • Satanism:
The Roman official explained that satanic groups have become a significant concern for law-enforcement officials because of their involvement in drug trafficking and sexual violence.
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