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/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 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26523 A bill under which Colorado City, Arizona -- a town controlled by leaders of the polygamous FLDS cult -- would be forced to disband its police force has advanced in the Arizona Legislature.

While the bill does not mention the town by name, Attorney General Tom Horne says that officers in Colorado City have actively interfered with the law.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26523/arizona-bill-targets-police-in-flds-controlled-city/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26508/polygamous-sect-leaders-make-tax-payments-avoid-evictions http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26508/polygamous-sect-leaders-make-tax-payments-avoid-evictions#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:59:03 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26508 Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, have paid Arizona county treasurers about $930,000 in back taxes.

In making the partial payment they avoided possible evictions of sect members.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26508/polygamous-sect-leaders-make-tax-payments-avoid-evictions/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26506/unique-construction-project-under-way-at-flds-ranch http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26506/unique-construction-project-under-way-at-flds-ranch#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:20:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26506 An unusual building is under construction on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas.

Speculations regarding its purpose range from a place to house a statue of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs to a new temple.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26506/unique-construction-project-under-way-at-flds-ranch/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26504/polygamist-prophent-warren-jeffs-controlling-sect-from-behind-bars http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26504/polygamist-prophent-warren-jeffs-controlling-sect-from-behind-bars#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26504 Six months after he was jailed for life plus 20 years for his so-called 'spiritual marriages' to two teenage girls it's clear Jeffs continues to pull the strings, call the shots and rule with an iron fist in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona.

Mike Watkiss reports.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26504/polygamist-prophent-warren-jeffs-controlling-sect-from-behind-bars/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26488/nonprofit-holds-fundraiser-to-help-people-leaving-polygamous-groups http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26488/nonprofit-holds-fundraiser-to-help-people-leaving-polygamous-groups#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26488 Aa Salt Lake City-based nonprofit for people leaving polygamous groups held a fundraiser Friday.

The organization has seen its numbers grow significantly in the past year as dozens of people have been excommunicated from the state’s largest polygamous sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints led by Warren Jeffs]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26488/nonprofit-holds-fundraiser-to-help-people-leaving-polygamous-groups/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26487/will-the-taxwomen-bring-down-the-polygamist-how-about-a-columnist http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26487/will-the-taxwomen-bring-down-the-polygamist-how-about-a-columnist#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:49:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26487 Winston Blackmore may have finally met his match: the taxwomen -- whom he is facing in a landmark Tax Court trial.

Also on his case: Canadian author and columnist Daphne Branham.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26487/will-the-taxwomen-bring-down-the-polygamist-how-about-a-columnist/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26485/polygamous-leader-borrowed-25k-for-end-of-the-world-false-predicted-15-times-by-warren-jeffs http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26485/polygamous-leader-borrowed-25k-for-end-of-the-world-false-predicted-15-times-by-warren-jeffs#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:13:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26485 Canadian polygamist Winston Blackmore revealed in a Tax Court he was compelled to pay money to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to prepare for the end of world as prophecied by the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs.

To date at least 15 different deadlines set by Jeffs have gone and gone.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26485/polygamous-leader-borrowed-25k-for-end-of-the-world-false-predicted-15-times-by-warren-jeffs/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26480/flds-media-blitz-repent-and-free-warren-jeffs-or-else http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26480/flds-media-blitz-repent-and-free-warren-jeffs-or-else#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:22:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26480 God wants Warren Jeffs and other FLDS members released from prison.

The cult leader -- sentenced last August to life plus 20 years in prison for charges resulting from his 'spiritual marriages' to two teenaged girls -- says so in a slew of revelations, some of which have been published in newspaper ads throughout the US and Canada.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26480/flds-media-blitz-repent-and-free-warren-jeffs-or-else/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26463/winston-blackmore-describes-living-arrangements-with-his-21-wives http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26463/winston-blackmore-describes-living-arrangements-with-his-21-wives#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:51:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26463 Polygamous sect leader Winston Blackmore claims he is minister to approximately 400 followers in Bountiful and that they constitute a congregation, which should provide them an enormous break on taxes.

The Government of Canada is seeking to prove that he repeatedly understated his income on tax returns, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars being owed to the government]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26463/winston-blackmore-describes-living-arrangements-with-his-21-wives/feed 0