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/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26540 The Philippines Supreme Court has denied with finality the appeal of Dinagat Islands Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. seeking to reverse the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court’s 2006 ruling convicting him and two other people of graft and sending them to 31 years in prison.

Ecleo still faces an often-delayed trial on charges that he committed parricide by murdering his wife Alona in January, 2002.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26540/lawmaker-cult-leader-ruben-ecleo-gets-31-years-in-jail-for-graft/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:49:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26538 Wearing a full-length black niqab -- with only her brown eyes showing through narrow slits -- Widad Lootah does not look like a sexual activist.

Yet this conservative Muslim is one of the best known -- and most outspoken -- marriage counselors in the United Arab Emirates.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26538/islamic-love-guru-mama-widad-urges-women-to-enjoy-sex/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26537/iranian-authorities-raid-house-church-in-shiraz-arrest-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26537/iranian-authorities-raid-house-church-in-shiraz-arrest-christians#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:54:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26537 Iranian authorities this week arrested Christian converts from Islam while they were meeting for worship at a home in the southern city of Shiraz, according to sources.

The sources put the number of the arrested Christians, who belong to one of Iran’s many underground house churches, at between six and 10.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26537/iranian-authorities-raid-house-church-in-shiraz-arrest-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26536/burma-troops-%e2%80%98kill-torture%e2%80%99-christian-kachins-despite-ceasefire-pledge http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26536/burma-troops-%e2%80%98kill-torture%e2%80%99-christian-kachins-despite-ceasefire-pledge#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:47:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26536 Burmese troops kill or torture civilians and destroy churches and even entire villages of the predominantly Christian Kachin minority despite pledges from Burma's nominally civilian government that it seeks ceasefire agreements with ethnic groups, investigators say.

Rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said it recorded "grave human rights abuses" during a three week visit to the Rangoon and Kachin State on the China-Burma border.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26536/burma-troops-%e2%80%98kill-torture%e2%80%99-christian-kachins-despite-ceasefire-pledge/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26535 Police in South Korea arrested a pastor and his wife Saturday after three of their four children were found dead.

The couple has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and starving their children to death]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26535/dead-children-of-faith-healing-pastor-and-his-wife-had-been-beaten-starved/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26534/islamic-extremists-behead-christian-convert-from-islam-in-somalia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26534/islamic-extremists-behead-christian-convert-from-islam-in-somalia#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:40:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26534 Islamic extremists from the rebel al Shabaab militia in Somalia beheaded a Christian on the outskirts of Mogadishu last month, sources said.

The youn man had converted from Islam to Christianity.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26534/islamic-extremists-behead-christian-convert-from-islam-in-somalia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:07:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26532 The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.

Koper’s complaint is directed against two attorneys who handle some of TBN's legal work.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26532/suit-trinity-broadcasting-network-board-diverted-millions-from-charitable-assets/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26531/sightings-death-gospel-and-the-heart-of-saturday-night http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26531/sightings-death-gospel-and-the-heart-of-saturday-night#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:36:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26531 The recent release of Adam Arcuragi’s album Like a Fire that Consumes All Before It… has raised interest in the popular-musical category of “Death Gospel,” a metaphysically attuned variety of the Americana genre named by Arcuragi.

Death Gospel is not sonically related to “Death Metal” (a heavier Heavy Metal music); nor is it overtly “gospel” music.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26531/sightings-death-gospel-and-the-heart-of-saturday-night/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:11:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26530 Just one day after parents in Washington were charged in the faith healing death of the teenaged son, an Oregon couple belonging to the same church have been arrested in the faith healing death of their 16-year-old son.

They belong to a church is known for its unbiblical teachings beliefs regarding faith healing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26530/oregon-faith-healing-couple-charged-in-sons-death/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:05:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26529 The former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs says in a new lawsuit that sect leaders arranged a nighttime burglary that gutted his business after he was excommunicated for refusing to falsify sect records on Jeffs’ marriages to underage girls.

Willie Jessop, a onetime Jeffs bodyguard and sect spokesman, is seeking more than $100 million in damages for business losses, repayment of money he loaned for sect legal expenses and compensation for abuse his family has suffered since leaving the group.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26529/former-flds-spokesman-sues-jailed-cult-leader-warren-jeffs/feed 0