http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26441/ugandan-teenager-tortured-for-becoming-a-christian-regaining-use-of-legs http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26441/ugandan-teenager-tortured-for-becoming-a-christian-regaining-use-of-legs#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:40:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26441 A 15-year-old Christian girl in western Uganda who lost the use of her legs after her father locked her in a room for six months for leaving Islam has begun to take tentative steps.

Susan Ithungu had been hospitalized since September 2010 after neighbors along with police rescued her.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26441/ugandan-teenager-tortured-for-becoming-a-christian-regaining-use-of-legs/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26403/muslims-attack-bishop-with-acid http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26403/muslims-attack-bishop-with-acid#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:11:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26403 Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other.

On Oct. 15, area Muslim leaders declared a fatwa against him demanding his death.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26403/muslims-attack-bishop-with-acid/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25998/11-years-after-uganda-cult-murders-sad-memories-still-fresh http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25998/11-years-after-uganda-cult-murders-sad-memories-still-fresh#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 06:21:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25998 It is more than a decade since more than 1,000 people perished in a church building in Kanungu, Uganda, after what is believed to have been a well-planned move by cult leaders who thought the world was coming to an end on December 31, 1999 but it never came to pass.

Much as time has passed, people still feel the effect of the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments killings.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25998/11-years-after-uganda-cult-murders-sad-memories-still-fresh/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:15:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24209 At least 321 people were killed and hundreds were abducted in one of the worst massacres by Africa’s most feared rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December.

The attack — which was unreported until now — confirms that the LRA has restarted terrorising the region despite losing its bases in Sudan a few years ago, when Khartoum, its main backer, signed a peace deal with south Sudanese rebels.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24019/uganda-cops-exhume-3-bodies-in-mysterious-cult-probe http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24019/uganda-cops-exhume-3-bodies-in-mysterious-cult-probe#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:44:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24019 Police in Uganda on Monday exhumed bodies of three children who died under suspicious circumstances and were secretly buried at a home of a detained cult leader.

Police learnt of the cult after after a woman complained about her 3-year-old child who had been buried secretly, after being removed from her when she fell sick.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24019/uganda-cops-exhume-3-bodies-in-mysterious-cult-probe/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19642/uganda-200-children-rescued-from-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19642/uganda-200-children-rescued-from-church#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:32:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19642/uganda-200-children-rescued-from-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19642/uganda-200-children-rescued-from-church/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19628/apollo-paulo-wazaba http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19628/apollo-paulo-wazaba#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:05:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19628/apollo-paulo-wazaba http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19628/apollo-paulo-wazaba/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19602/uganda-pastor-i-helped-top-pastor-con-aids-patients http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19602/uganda-pastor-i-helped-top-pastor-con-aids-patients#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:21:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19602/uganda-pastor-i-helped-top-pastor-con-aids-patients http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19602/uganda-pastor-i-helped-top-pastor-con-aids-patients/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19601/conmen-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19601/conmen-2#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:15:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19601/conmen-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19601/conmen-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19614/false-pastors http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19614/false-pastors#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:43:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19614/false-pastors http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19614/false-pastors/feed 0