http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25985/colonia-dignidad-cult-suspects-arrested-in-chile http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25985/colonia-dignidad-cult-suspects-arrested-in-chile#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 06:36:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25985 Police in Chile have arrested two suspected members of the secretive sect, Colonia Dignidad.

Rebeca Schaefer and Peter Schmidt are accused of kidnapping, manslaughter and membership of an illicit organisation.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25985/colonia-dignidad-cult-suspects-arrested-in-chile/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:54:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24261 Former Nazi Paul Schaefer, who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children, died of heart failure in a prison hospital Saturday, officials said.

He was 88.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21749/colonia-dignidad-founder-sentenced-for-child-torture http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21749/colonia-dignidad-founder-sentenced-for-child-torture#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:26:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21749 The founder of a religious cult whose followers thought he was "God on earth" has been sentenced for torturing children.

He preached an unnamed religion that said harsh discipline would draw them closer to the supreme being.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21749/colonia-dignidad-founder-sentenced-for-child-torture/feed 0