http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24393/house-of-sist-found-empty-after-barricade-situation-lasting-overnight http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24393/house-of-sist-found-empty-after-barricade-situation-lasting-overnight#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:42:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24393 Baltimore County police were searching for at least one suspect in the assault on an 18-year-old woman that led to a barricade Wednesday around a Pikesville house owned by a suspected religious cult leader.

Police said Avraham Cohen is not a part of the investigation into the incident, and he was not believed to be at the residence at the time of the assault, but the victim might have been part of the organization.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24393/house-of-sist-found-empty-after-barricade-situation-lasting-overnight/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22944/naomi-isaacson http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22944/naomi-isaacson#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:39:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22944 The executive of a religious sect that's accused of orchestrating threats against Shawano, Wisconsin, officials has been picked up by the U.S. Marshals Service for extradition to Maryland on an unrelated contempt of court warrant.

Authorities in Shawano and the FBI said her arrest had nothing to do with the Shawano threats case.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22944/naomi-isaacson/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22943/samanta-roy http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22943/samanta-roy#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:59:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22943 Members of a religious sect based in nearby Wescott generated a list of elected officials, residents and members of the media they wanted "taken care of," authorities said Friday.

A Canadian citizen — a former business associate of the sect, Samanta Roy Institute for Science and Technology — contacted authorities on Oct. 30 with information about the threats and received the list from sect members on Nov. 3, Whealon said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22943/samanta-roy/feed 0