http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:56:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23220 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."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:16:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23198 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23059/jean-carlos-salazar http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23059/jean-carlos-salazar#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:50:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23059 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23059/jean-carlos-salazar/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:57:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22372 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22186 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:14:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21948 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21739/ruling-delayed-in-satanists-visitation-case http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21739/ruling-delayed-in-satanists-visitation-case#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:04:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21739 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21739/ruling-delayed-in-satanists-visitation-case/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21724/prosecutor-links-case-to-satanism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21724/prosecutor-links-case-to-satanism#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21724 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21724/prosecutor-links-case-to-satanism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20408/satanism-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20408/satanism-6#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:53:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20408/satanism-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20408/satanism-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20302/satanism-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20302/satanism-5#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:42:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20302/satanism-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20302/satanism-5/feed 0