http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 11:39:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24299 The acts of abuse include violently throwing the children around by their arms and legs, leaving a child in an electric oven until his hair burned, placing a child in a suitcase for three days, feeding a child excrement and other extreme acts of abuse.

The cult leader's trial is still ongoing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24299/cult-leader-elior-chen-followers-convicted/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 06:17:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24277 A disciple of accused cult leader Elior Chen was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to shaking, burning and tying up her eight children.

The woman, identified only as M., received a lenient sentence in exchange for testifying against Chen and others.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24277/mother-in-elior-chen-child-abuse-cult-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:03:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23796 Chen is wanted in Israel for his involvement in a sadistic cult thought to have committed numerous counts of child abuse.

Chen, a self-styled rabbi, allegedly influenced members of his flock to abuse their children in order to "correct their corrupt souls."

According to an indictment, the rabbi instructed one mother to conduct “tikkunim” on her children – “meaning, jolting, beating, tying, burning organs, feeding them with faeces, and more.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23796/abusive-rabbi-elior-chen-to-be-extradited-to-israel/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21587 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21587/rabbi-tortured-children-excorcism/feed 0