http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:12:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24024/witch-doctors-reveal-extent-of-child-sacrifice-in-uganda http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24024/witch-doctors-reveal-extent-of-child-sacrifice-in-uganda#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:24:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24024 A BBC investigation into human sacrifice in Uganda has heard first-hand accounts which suggest ritual killings of children may be more common than authorities have acknowledged.

A former witch-doctor who now campaigns to end child sacrifice confessed for the first time to having murdered about 70 people, including his own son.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24024/witch-doctors-reveal-extent-of-child-sacrifice-in-uganda/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23196/larry-harris http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23196/larry-harris#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:06:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23196 Police testified they took black and white candles from Harris' home last January, along with bells, a necklace, and several books on Witchcraft.

The knife Police found in a master bedroom closet tested positive for Alysha Suing's blood and Larry Harris' fingerprints.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23196/larry-harris/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23195/lawrence-douglas-harris http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23195/lawrence-douglas-harris#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:55:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23195 After more than a year of preparation and several delays, a jury will hear from attorneys and witnesses today as the double-murder trial of Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. begins.

Harris, 26, is accused of killing his young stepdaughters during some kind of ritual. He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers will try to prove that he was legally insane when the crimes were committed.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23195/lawrence-douglas-harris/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22249 The heads of 11 decapitated bodies discovered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula last week may have been burned in a ritual, investigators said.

Police said they found an altar to the skeletal figure of the "Santa Muerte," an unofficial patron saint of death, in the home of two men arrested in connection with the slayings, while several scorched spots were discovered in a nearby clearing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22124/kendra-alysha-suing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22124/kendra-alysha-suing#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22124 Prosecutors say 26-year-old Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., who faces two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly killing his 8- and 10-year-old stepdaughters in January, was practicing satanism and carefully planned the killings as a part of a spell or ritual from "The Satanic Bible."

Shortly after the girls' deaths, police said Harris told them they had died during a spell that "had gone bad."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22124/kendra-alysha-suing/feed 0