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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; The Fellowship (Australia)</title>
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		<title>The Fellowship: Cult&#8217;s teachings deemed heretical</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22586/fellowship-bruce-teele-heresy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22586/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/buce-teele.jpg" alt="Bruce Teele" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Bruce Teele"></a> The Presbyterian Church of Australia has declared <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/447-heresy-heretic">heretical</a> six principal teachings of a <a href="http://www.cultfaq.org">cult</a> inside a Melbourne Presbyterian church, and ordered that the church's findings against the cult be read at every Presbyterian congregation in Australia.
<br /><br />The declaration, to be released today, vindicates the church in its decade-long battle to expel the cult, headed by stockbroker Bruce Teele, that dominates Trinity Presbyterian Church, Camberwell.]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Presbyterian church split over cult&#8217;s fate</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21397/fellowship-cult-presbyterian-church-australia</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Top-level tensions in the Presbyterian church over a cult inside its Camberwell church have deteriorated after the state authority defied a move that would end its attempts to excise the cult. Members of the Victorian assembly on Tuesday expressed outrage at a report from the national church group that in practice exonerates the cult, known as the Fellowship.]]></description>
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		<title>Cult elders back in church fold</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18915/the-fellowship</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The elders of a secretive cult who were expelled from the Presbyterian Church last year have been reinstated by a special meeting of the church's general assembly. But members of the Victorian assembly, which excommunicated the 15 elders of Trinity Camberwell, were not too downhearted, saying the Fellowship had won the battle but lost the war.]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship appeal may divide church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 15 elders of a Presbyterian Church cult known as the Fellowship who were excommunicated last year have appealed to the church's highest authority to reinstate them.]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Fellowship: a bitter-sweet crusade</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13830/breaking-the-fellowship-a-bitter-sweet-crusade</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An elitist cult has successfully operated as a church within a church - until now.
As a young man, Grant Lawry was invited to join the Fellowship, the secretive cult centred at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camberwell. He spent 15 years on the fringes — then the past decade trying to root them out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elders sacked in church &#8216;cult&#8217; purge</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13765/elders-sacked-in-church-cult-purge</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13765/elders-sacked-in-church-cult-purge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Congregation members at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camberwell have been advised to dissociate themselves from a cult-like group to which most of them belong.
They were told in church yesterday that their 15 elders — members of the secretive group within the Presbyterian Church known as the Fellowship — had been sacked for failing to carry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fellowship: Churchgoers warned to reject secretive group</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13764/the-fellowship-churchgoers-warned-to-reject-secretive-group</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Churchgoers were warned yesterday to reject a secretive group operating in their midst.
The warning came after the excommunication of 15 elders of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Camberwell Victoria over their links to the Fellowship, a sect accused of wielding strong control over its followers.
A statement read to the Trinity congregation by Presbytery of Melbourne East [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church excommunicates 15 for cult membership</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13750/church-excommunicates-15-for-cult-membership</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presbyterian Church has excommunicated all 15 elders of one of its largest Melbourne congregations because of their conduct as members of a cult known as the Fellowship.
At 2.15am on Thursday, the Presbytery of Melbourne East dismissed the session (group of elders) of Trinity, Camberwell, and removed them from membership of the Presbyterian Church in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fellowship, Inside Out</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13751/the-fellowship-inside-out</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: The Fellowship aims for spiritual perfection, but its critics say it&#8217;s distorting the Gospel.

Program Transcript
Investigated by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in the late 1990s, it is now the subject of a book by journalist Morag Zwartz titled Fractured Families. Two former members speak of their experience with The Fellowship.
CHOIR SINGING - When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fractured Families: The story of a Melbourne cult</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9982/the-story-of-a-melbourne-cult</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9982/the-story-of-a-melbourne-cult#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fractured Families: The Story of  a Melbourne Cult, By Morag Zwartz, Parenesis Publishing, $19.95
In the public imagination, cults are usually associated with the wacky and the surreal: fortified compounds in isolated locales, flying saucers, suicide pacts, children with dyed blond hair or leaders commanding sex from vulnerable followers. Thus, the idea of a cult [...]]]></description>
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