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/24014/accused-say-they-had-no-intention-to-kill-couple-in-exorcism-ritual http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24014/accused-say-they-had-no-intention-to-kill-couple-in-exorcism-ritual#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:13:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24014 An Al-Arqam follower who is charged with murdering a Malaysia couple admitted in High Court that he had hit the victims with a piece of wood, crash helmet and mop handle to exorcise them.

"I could see that there were many evil spirits in my house and in the bodies of all my family members which I needed to remove," the man said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24014/accused-say-they-had-no-intention-to-kill-couple-in-exorcism-ritual/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22632/families-in-deadly-ritual-are-al-arqam-follower http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22632/families-in-deadly-ritual-are-al-arqam-follower#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:16:53 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22632 The two families who took part in a ritual “cleansing” to cure illness that led to the death of a couple are followers of the banned deviant group Al-Arqam.

Al-Arqam, theologically a cult of Islam, was banned in Malaysia as a deviant sect in 1994.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22632/families-in-deadly-ritual-are-al-arqam-follower/feed 0