http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23795/islamic-militants-in-somalia-ban-bras http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23795/islamic-militants-in-somalia-ban-bras#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:39:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23795 A hardline Islamist group in Somalia is publicly whipping women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting a “deception”, it was claimed yesterday.

Gunmen from al Shabaab have been rounding up any women with a “firm bust” and whipping them, say residents in the capital Mogadishu.

One woman said: “They first introduced a hard fabric which stands stiffly on women’s chests. They are now saying breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.”

The group has also banned movies, football, musical ringtones and dancing at weddings.

The group’s hardline interpretation of Islamic law has shocked many Somalis, who are traditionally moderate Muslims.

Naturally Religion News Blog files these type of items under the category, 'religious insanity.']]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23795/islamic-militants-in-somalia-ban-bras/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23781/marc-grizzard-king-james-only http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23781/marc-grizzard-king-james-only#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:25:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23781 Yet another case of religious insanity...

A church leader in North Carolina is burning versions of the Bible he doesn't agree with.

Pastor Marc Grizzard of the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton is building a bonfire on Halloween to destroy Bibles that aren't the King James Version.

"What we're doing is we're burning books that are satanic. I believe the King James version is God's preserve, inspired, in erect, infallible word of God."

King James Only-ism is the aberrant belief that God isn't clever enough to address people in anything other than ancient English. [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23781/marc-grizzard-king-james-only/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:46:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23776 Nearly a half-century after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon performed his first mass wedding, the 89-year-old leader of the Unification Church is getting ready to marry off tens of thousands of people in spectacles from the United States to South Korea.

Critics who accuse the church of engaging in cultlike practices say the mass weddings prove it brainwashes its followers.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23701/westboro-baptist-church-14 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23701/westboro-baptist-church-14#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:31:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23701 A federal appeals court has thrown out a US$5 million ($7 million) verdict against fundamentalist Christian protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers" outside the Maryland funeral of a US Marine killed in Iraq.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church -- a cult-like hate group -- have deluded themselves into thinking they are Christians.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23701/westboro-baptist-church-14/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23407/islamic-extremism-56 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23407/islamic-extremism-56#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:19:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23407 A delusional French father has been charged with starving and beating his eight children in the belief that it would make them good Muslims.

Meanwhile, in Russia police have arrested 46-year-old Gafar Kerimov on charges that he hired a gunman to murder his 21-year-old daughter -- because his Muslim friends disapproved of her choice of clothes.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23407/islamic-extremism-56/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23405/taleban-religious-barbarism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23405/taleban-religious-barbarism#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:51:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23405 The Taleban, whose followers believe they are adherents of the purest form of Islam, have murdered a young couple after accusing them of immoral acts.

The woman, Gul Pecha, 19, and the man, Abdul Aziz, 21, were executed by a Taleban firing squad in front of a crowd.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23405/taleban-religious-barbarism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23307/westboro-baptist-church-13 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23307/westboro-baptist-church-13#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:32:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23307 The savages who operate the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group masquerading as a Christian church -- have announced on their website that they intent to picket the funerals of people killed in last Wednesday's plane crash at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The cult is best known for its despicable practice of picketing the funerals of people its delusional followers object to. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23307/westboro-baptist-church-13/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23250/warren-jeff http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23250/warren-jeff#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:29:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23250 Even before he became a fugitive, polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs began visiting state capitals to "shake the dust off his feet in condemnation," asking that each be punished with "the wrath of God," Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Friday.

Speaking to a symposium at the S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City, Shurtleff said Jeffs visited all 48 contiguous states to perform the ordinance, which he detailed in "priesthood letters" and journals seized in April from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23250/warren-jeff/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23155/jose-luis-de-jesus-miranda-19 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23155/jose-luis-de-jesus-miranda-19#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:58:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23155 Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who gained international notoriety by declaring himself first to be Jesus Christ, then the Antichrist, roundly lost his divorce court bid to protect his church from financial claims by his most recent ex-wife.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Roberto Pineiro essentially ruled that de Jesus' Growing in Grace church was his personal business, rather than a religious nonprofit organization, and awarded Josefina de Jesus Torres the more than $2.2 million she sought in the divorce -- the amount her lawyer deemed was half the assets of her ex-husband and his church.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23155/jose-luis-de-jesus-miranda-19/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23062/religious-insanity-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23062/religious-insanity-3#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:02:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23062 A religious tyrant and his cruel wife must stay behind bars after a judge refused them leave to appeal against their long prison sentences.

The Bradford, UK couple were locked up in May after a jury found the father sadistically tortured his sons while his fervently Christian wife turned a blind eye.

During the trial at Bradford Crown Court, the two boys told how they were tortured with safety pins, clothes pegs and scalpel blades. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23062/religious-insanity-3/feed 0