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/25433/ashram-shambala-cult-leader-rudnev-to-remain-in-prison-for-now http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25433/ashram-shambala-cult-leader-rudnev-to-remain-in-prison-for-now#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:27:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25433 The Novosibirsk Central District Court has upheld the prosecution's request to extend custody for leader of the Ashram Shambala religious sect Konstantin Rudnev.

Arrested in early October, Rudnev was charged with creating a religious organization encroaching upon citizens' rights, rape and sexual abuse.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25433/ashram-shambala-cult-leader-rudnev-to-remain-in-prison-for-now/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25184/jail-dodging-%e2%80%9csex-guru%e2%80%9d-arrested http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25184/jail-dodging-%e2%80%9csex-guru%e2%80%9d-arrested#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:12:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25184 The leader of a notorious quasi-religious cult, suspected of recruiting thousands of people and turning them into voluntary sex slaves, has been arrested in Russia.

Konstantin Rudnev, leader of the “Ashram Shambala” sect has been put in custody in the Western Siberian city of Novosibirsk and charged with sexual assault, rape and the creation of a society involved in violence and the violation of human rights, police said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25184/jail-dodging-%e2%80%9csex-guru%e2%80%9d-arrested/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22867/konstantin-rudne http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22867/konstantin-rudne#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:18:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22867 Police have detained the leader of Ashram Shambala, one of Russia's largest sects, near the West Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a deputy police chief said on Tuesday.

He was put on the federal wanted list in the 1990s after it was determined that the sect's ideology was "anti-social and anti-family, deliberately opposing itself to society in general." The police operation was aimed at freeing several sect members, including an underage girl from Belarus.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22867/konstantin-rudne/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8814/founder-of-group-similar-to-aum-shinrikyo-arrested-in-russia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8814/founder-of-group-similar-to-aum-shinrikyo-arrested-in-russia#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:04:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=8814 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8814/founder-of-group-similar-to-aum-shinrikyo-arrested-in-russia/feed 0