http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:08:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25758/dueling-views-of-accused-guru-open-trial http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25758/dueling-views-of-accused-guru-open-trial#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:53:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25758 Was Prakashanand Saraswati, the spiritual leader of Barsana Dham, a lecherous old man who in the mid-1990s groped several teenage girls who lived on the ashram south of Austin? Or was he a devout holy man who has been made the target of a malicious smear campaign?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25758/dueling-views-of-accused-guru-open-trial/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25515/judge-won%e2%80%99t-suppress-testimony-in-hindu-guru%e2%80%99s-sex-crime-trial http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25515/judge-won%e2%80%99t-suppress-testimony-in-hindu-guru%e2%80%99s-sex-crime-trial#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:14:17 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25515 Hindu leader will be admissible in court despite a missing video recording of an investigator’s interview with the victim, 22nd District Judge Charles Ramsay ruled on Wednesday.

Prakashanand Saraswati, who presides over a Driftwood area ashram as the spiritual head of the JKP-Barsana Dham sect temple, is accused of molesting two then-teenagers over a three-year period starting in 1993.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25515/judge-won%e2%80%99t-suppress-testimony-in-hindu-guru%e2%80%99s-sex-crime-trial/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21477/prakashanand-saraswati http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21477/prakashanand-saraswati#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 07:16:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21477 [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21477/prakashanand-saraswati/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21476/prakashanand-saraswati-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21476/prakashanand-saraswati-2#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:08:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21476 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21476/prakashanand-saraswati-2/feed 0