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		<title>Twelve Tribes sect subject to scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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 â€¦</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>MatÃ© 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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Supreme Court rules that Twelve Tribes member must pay support</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16374/supreme-court-rules-that-twelve-tribes-member-must-pay-support</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a former Vermont woman must pay child support despite her religious beliefs.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany: Twelve Tribes fundamentalist Christian group gets school of their own</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of fundamentalist Christians in Bavaria has won a long battle for the right to privately teach their children &#8212; without sex ed and lessons on evolution. Bavarian officials are calling it an &#8220;emergency solution.&#8221;
Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, and yet the members of the fundamentalist Christian sect &#8220;Zwölf Stämme&#8221; (Twelve Tribes) have won [...]]]></description>
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