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CARSON CITY, Nev. – The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat called Tuesday for a federal investigation into the activities of polygamists in Western states. Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that a task force should be formed to look into interstate activities of polygamists. He also [...] »
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A key British judicial figure and senior Cabinet minister has denounced Guantanamo Bay as a “shocking affront to democracy” and says nations must not sacrifice values in the fight against terrorism. Britain’s Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, delivering a lecture today at the NSW Supreme Court, questioned the constitutional basis of the US’s treatment of prisoners [...] »
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There are two murders in Murder in Amsterdam. The first took place on May 6, 2002, when an animal-rights advocate, for obscure reasons, gunned down Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic politician with a populist program combining law-and-order conservatism, opposition to immigration and gay liberation. About a year and a half later a young Dutch Muslim of [...] »
Islam:
Violence is ‘contrary to God’s nature,’ he says in a lecture at the college where he once taught. REGENSBURG, Germany Pope Benedict XVI stepped into the volatile realm of religious violence Tuesday, warning that fanaticism was “contrary to God’s nature” and quoting a historical criticism of Islam likely to inflame tensions in the Muslim [...] »
House of Yahweh:
Residents of Nyandarua village in central Kenya are full of relief, after a local sect’s doomsday predictions failed to materialise. The House of Yahweh sect had predicted that the world would end before 12 September and had started building bunkers in case of nuclear war. However, after being arrested the sect’s leaders disappeared. One blamed [...] »
House of Yahweh:
The Government has warned members of a religious sect to stop causing panic in Nyandarua District. The Nyandarua District Commissioner, Mr Khamasi Shivogo, said the Government would ensure that the House of Yahweh sect, which had predicted that Tuesday would be the end of the world, did not instil fear in the district. The followers [...] »
House of Yahweh:
Fliers covered the windshields of cars parked in an HEB parking lot last week, proclaiming that a nuclear war will commence today leading to the end of man’s governments 13 months later. The House of Yahweh, which distributed the fliers, makes these claims based on prophesies that can be found in the Bible, according to [...] »
House of Yahweh:
Members of a doomsday cult in Naivasha called House of Yahweh‘ are all set for what they believe will be a nuclear invasion meant to cleanse the world. The over 30 members including children are all armed with facemasks and other protective clothing as well as complicated gadgets they claim will be used to measure [...] »
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Susan Grady has been convicted on second-degree manslaughter in the faith healing death of her 9-year-old son, Aaron Grady. Grady is a member of The General Assemblies and Church of the First Born church, a movement whose extremist teachings regarding faith healing have led to many unnecessary deaths. »
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of a man found guilty in the 2008 beating death of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter, Amora Bain Carson. The child was beaten with a hammer, sexually assaulted, and bitten more than 20 times. »
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, the jury selection process is under way for the trial of a woman accused of relying on faith and prayer, rather than seeking medical care, to treat her 9-year-old son who died of diabetes-related complications. Susan Grady is a member of the Church of the First Born — a network of churches whose extremist teachings regarding faith healing have resulted in many unnecessary deaths. »
The U.S. Justice Department says it plans to introduce evidence at the trial of Amish sect leader Sam Mullet to prove he had total authority over his Ohio community, including disciplining its members with beatings and having sex with other men’s wives to “counsel” them. Mullet and several of his family members and other followers are awaiting trial on a Federal hate crimes indictment for a series of beard- and hair cutting attacks against Amish men and women. »
A court in Brussels opened the trial of six people charged in connection with the 2004 murder of a young Muslim woman in a deadly act of exorcism, a practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person believed to be possessed. The woman was reportedly deceived into believing that she could not have children because she was possessed and that she had to undergo a practice of exorcism. »
In August, 2011, a Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages.” Jeffs has appealed his conviction with ‘revelations’ in which Jesus Christ allegedly demands his release, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has turned down the appeal. »
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