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/24773/moonies-burial-site-is-approved http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24773/moonies-burial-site-is-approved#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:52:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24773 A religious sect has been granted planning permission to create a burial ground in a village near Swindon, UK.

The Family Federation For World Peace And Unification, more commonly known as the Moonies, can now turn a field in Stanton Fitzwarren into a memorial woodland burial site, despite objections from the parish council, the local councillor and villagers. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24773/moonies-burial-site-is-approved/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:21:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23690 Hundreds of peasants from a town in western Paraguay on Tuesday blocked the national highway that runs to Argentina and Bolivia to demand the distribution of land donated by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.

The protest is the latest in a series staged by peasants from the Puerto Casado region in recent years against Victoria S.A., a company owned by the Moon cult.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:44:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21791 South Korean sect leader Sun Myung Moon was among seven people reported injured when their helicopter burst into flames after an emergency landing north of Seoul Saturday.

Moon, 88-year-old founder of the so-called Unification Church, was taken to a nearby hospital owned by his movement, as were the other injured including Moon's wife Han Hak Ja, Yonhap news agency said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:21:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21565 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia/feed 0