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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Vissarion</title>
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		<title>Ex-Traffic Cop Says He&#8217;s Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21685/"><img src="/graphicspics/vissarion.jpg" alt="Vissarion" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> Deep in the heart of Siberia's birch forests lies one of the largest and most remote religious communes of the planet. More than 5,000 people have left their families and their homes to move here and join the Church of the Last Testament, which has more than 10,000 followers worldwide. The church centers on one man. He is known simply as Vissarion, meaning "he who gives new life," or simply as the teacher, and he claims that he is Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Faiths Find Followers Among Russia&#8217;s Disillusioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Six miles from the nearest road, in the vast Siberian wilderness, a bearded man in flowing white linen robes sat at his kitchen table and talked about his crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate 2,000 years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Locals Call for Siberian Vegetarian Sect to Be Outlawed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of report by Radio Russia on 10 July
[Presenter] A petition has begun in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for the disbandment of the Vissarion sect, located in the so called Town of the Sun, in Kuraginskiy District in the south of Krasnoyarsk Territory. Yuriy Borisov reports.
[Borisov] Those who have managed to escape the town of death, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could this be the son of God?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/4219/could-this-be-the-son-of-god</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The man they call Jesus of Siberia came to Britain looking for disciples to follow him up a mountainside. Candida Crewe was intrigued.
A 41-year-old man dressed in a coarse, red velvet robe with scratchy gold braid takes his seat on a fine purple banquette in the Groucho Club. He wears thick socks under his sandals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I am Jesus Christ . . . It was prophesied that I would return to finish what I started&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph (England), Aug. 18, 2002
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
By Ben Aris in Moscow
Thousands of pilgrims have converged on the hamlet of Petropavlovka, deep in the Siberian tundra, to hear today&#8217;s annual sermon by a 41-year-old former traffic policeman who they believe to be Jesus.
Sergei Torop, known to his followers as Vissarion, has descended on horseback for the occasion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messiah or cult leader?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18764/vissarion-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 1999 08:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sergei Torop, a 38-year-old former traffic warden from Siberia, sighed and smiled when asked to confirm his divinity. When you know you are Jesus, being asked for proof gets tiresome.]]></description>
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