http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22978/flora-jessop-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22978/flora-jessop-2#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:15:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22978 An Arizona attorney plans to seek a court order to require anti-polygamy activist Flora Jessop to answer questions after she refused to cooperate Monday unless a television crew was allowed to tape the meeting.

He wants to ask Jessop about phone conversations she had with a person whose call, later considered a hoax, triggered the April 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22978/flora-jessop-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22946/flora-jessop http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22946/flora-jessop#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:27:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22946 In papers filed last week in a Kingman, Ariz., court, Jeffs' attorneys said they have scheduled a Nov. 24 interview with Flora Jessop in Phoenix. Jeffs' criminal defense team has asked her to bring copies of "any recordings of any phone calls between yourself and Rozita Swinton," the woman suspected of making the hoax call that launched the raid.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22946/flora-jessop/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22792/rozita-swinton-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22792/rozita-swinton-2#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:50:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22792 The woman suspected of making the hoax phone call that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's sprawling Texas ranch may soon be undergoing mental health treatment.

Rozita Swinton has not been charged in connection with the April 3 raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ranch near El Dorado, in which she allegedly pretended to be a pregnant 16-year-old girl. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22792/rozita-swinton-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22368/rozita-swinton-plea http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22368/rozita-swinton-plea#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22368 Rozita Swinton became well-known over investigators' suspicions that she pretended to be an underage bride and called a crisis hot line in Texas.

Investigators say such calls triggered an April 3 raid on the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Yearning for Zion Ranch compound near Eldorado, Texas.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22368/rozita-swinton-plea/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21770/rozita-swinton http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21770/rozita-swinton#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:27:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21770 The April raid on the polygamous FLDS sect was in response to a phone call that may have been a hoax.

Growing evidence indicates Swinton repeatedly made calls to authorities in multiple jurisdictions, setting off large emergency responses that sometimes involved dozens of police officers.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21770/rozita-swinton/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21265/rozita-swinto http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21265/rozita-swinto#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:07:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21265 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21265/rozita-swinto/feed 0