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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Twelve Tribes</title>
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		<title>Controversy continues to brew over Twelve Tribes sect cafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21957/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/commonground.jpg" alt="Twelve Tribes" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> The practices of messianic Christian sect The Twelve Tribes continue to divide opinion in the Blue Mountains, Australia, with an ex-member and a potential new member throwing another log into the fire of debate.<br /><br />Winmalee resident Matthew Klein, is sounding another warning to Mountains residents to recognise the Twelve Tribes as a potentially destructive cult.]]></description>
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		<title>1984 Vermont sect raid had similar judicial conclusion as Texas case</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21594/twelve-tribes-8</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ "It's very apparent from these two cases that at least two courts are looking for specific, direct information regarding each family unit," said Washington attorney John Easton, who in 1984 was the Vermont attorney general and involved in the decision to launch the Island Pond raid. "To remove a child from a family is a high burden. The courts are going to be looking for a substantial amount of proof" of abuse.]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve Tribes sect subject to scrutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20938/twelve-tribes-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The general manager of the Royal Easter Show said he would not be surprised if a cafe run at the event by a Christian sect was inspected by the state's workplace watchdog after revelations its workers were not being paid.]]></description>
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		<title>Spare the rod and spoil the …</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20929/twelve-tribes-6</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the Twelve Tribes' attitude towards children that has proved most controversial. Harsh discipline is one of the group's central tenets, as detailed in its 267-page Child Training Manual, copies of which have been handed out to parents at Picton. Written by Spriggs, the manual codifies when, why and how to hit children, saying "you must make it hurt enough to produce the desired result" and that "stripes or marks from loving discipline show love by the parent".]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Sect woos recruits among the fairy floss at Easter Show</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20928/twelve-tribes-5</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Common Ground cafe is one of several businesses owned and operated by the Community Apostolic Order, also known as the Twelve Tribes, a messianic Christian sect accused by former members of harsh child discipline which in some cases could amount to child abuse, family break-up and thought control.]]></description>
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		<title>Maté with a message</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20780/twelve-tribes-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Twelve Tribes, theologically a cult of Christianity, supports itself in part by running restaurants.]]></description>
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		<title>The path of righteousness</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18742/twelve-tribes-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the Twelve Tribes -- an intentional community considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity.]]></description>
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		<title>Hillsboro embraces Twelve Tribes Farm</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18589/twelve-tribes-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They pool their finances, home-school their children -- whom they sometimes discipline with small reeds -- and have been accused in other parts of the country of being a cult and breaking child labor laws.  But in western Loudoun County, their neighbors wouldn't trade them for the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Members of religious sect want to open cafe, market in Hillsboro</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18525/twelve-tribes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Twelve Tribes -- theologically a cult of Christianity -- runs a series of popular cafes.]]></description>
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		<title>The great escape: Quitting a cult takes determination and expert help</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18044/quitting-a-cult-takes-determination-and-expert-help</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cults]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning the rest of Matthew Klein's life began one crisp morning in October 2001, on a street corner in a red light district of Winnipeg, Canada. That was the day he got thrown out of The Twelve Tribes, a fundamentalist Christian cult with about 3000 members worldwide. ]]></description>
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