http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 27 May 2012 12:52:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26581/so-called-vampire-cult-in-court http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26581/so-called-vampire-cult-in-court#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:57:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26581 Two of the five suspects in the so-called vampire cult murder in Parker, FL in July last year have been found competent to stand trial.

Media labeled the group a 'vampire cult' after one of the suspects, Stephanie Pistey, claimed she is a 'vampire' who must quench her thirst.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26581/so-called-vampire-cult-in-court/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26386/vampire-killer-tracey-wigginton-wins-parole-expected-to-be-free-in-weeks http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26386/vampire-killer-tracey-wigginton-wins-parole-expected-to-be-free-in-weeks#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:18:16 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26386 Australia's "lesbian vampire killer" Tracey Wigginton, who stabbed a man to death and drank his blood, is expected to be released from prison within weeks after an independent parole board decision.

Her co-accused lover, Lisa Ptaschinski, was released in 2008.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26386/vampire-killer-tracey-wigginton-wins-parole-expected-to-be-free-in-weeks/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26197/woman-accused-teenage-boy-murder-claims-to-be-member-of-vampire-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26197/woman-accused-teenage-boy-murder-claims-to-be-member-of-vampire-cult#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:23:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26197 A Florida woman jailed in the slaying of a 16-year-old boy says she and her cohorts were members of a vampire cult and that she loves drinking blood.

The 18-year-old denies drinking the victim's blood after the murder, but reportedly claims she has drunk the blood of her fiance and co-defendant.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26197/woman-accused-teenage-boy-murder-claims-to-be-member-of-vampire-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25300/missing-16-year-olds-parents-fear-girl-in-vampire-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25300/missing-16-year-olds-parents-fear-girl-in-vampire-cult#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:15:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25300 story about three missing kids, CBS Atlanta has learned three Cobb County students all disappeared within a few days of each other.

The three McEachern High School teens were said to be involved a Goth lifestyle, had an obsession with vampires, and then they disappeared each within a week of each other.

Two of the teens turned up over the weekend. But Shelby Elllis, a 16 year old sophomore, is still missing and her parents fear the worst.

Shelby has been missing for three weeks. On Oct. 11, she took the bus to school and never came home. Her last known activity on the Internet was logging onto the website "Vampire Freaks," where her parents say she lived a double life.

"You have the obvious thoughts of pentagrams and candles and the crazy things that you see on TV that are associated with the darker cult lifestyle," Rich Ellis said.

"A lot of them are in this dark, 'let's be gothic, let's be different, let's suck blood.' All kinds of dark stuff," Wendy Ellis said.

She said the three girls were fascinated with vampires and the dark side of life. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25300/missing-16-year-olds-parents-fear-girl-in-vampire-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25192/arizona-vampires-arrested-after-stabbing-roommate-for-blood http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25192/arizona-vampires-arrested-after-stabbing-roommate-for-blood#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:33:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25192 Police have released additional details on a stabbing that took place in Chandler earlier this week. The story has attracted national attention as the "vampire stabbing" after suspects told police they practice vampireism and paganism and said they were trying to suck the victim's blood.

Police say the victim, 25-year-old Robert Maley, was stabbed after refusing to let his roommates suck his blood.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25192/arizona-vampires-arrested-after-stabbing-roommate-for-blood/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24808/vampires-get-their-teeth-into-us-public http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24808/vampires-get-their-teeth-into-us-public#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:21:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24808 Vampires are in fashion across the United States, encouraged by the hit TV series "True Blood," now in its third season, the "Twilight" movies and "Vampire Diaries." Stories about feeding on blood are greedily consumed and eagerly published.

For a pastime with dark, anti-religious overtones vampire fashion is itself becoming oddly like an organized religion. There are rules, priests, private gatherings and large-scale celebrations.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24808/vampires-get-their-teeth-into-us-public/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24688/vampires-reach-cult-religion-status http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24688/vampires-reach-cult-religion-status#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:49:10 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24688 Twilight saga could see “real” vampires emerge from the underground and into the daylight.

University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Adam Possamai, who specialises in sociology of religion, said the growing number of “vampires” was an example of hyper-real religions - new faiths that draw on religion, philosophy and popular culture to create their own beliefs.

He said people had been interested in vampires since the 1970s, particularly the super-human abilities of vampires.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24688/vampires-reach-cult-religion-status/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21162/lisa-ptaschinski http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21162/lisa-ptaschinski#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:29:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21162/lisa-ptaschinski http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21162/lisa-ptaschinski/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21161/tracey-wigginton http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21161/tracey-wigginton#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:26:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21161/tracey-wigginton http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21161/tracey-wigginton/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20925/vampire-cult-murder http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20925/vampire-cult-murder#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:01:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20925/vampire-cult-murder http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20925/vampire-cult-murder/feed 0