http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24156/satan-worshipers-possible-suspects-in-kimberly-simon-slaying http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24156/satan-worshipers-possible-suspects-in-kimberly-simon-slaying#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24156 The last hours of Kimberly Simon’s life in 1985 were likely spent with a group of young men who worshiped the devil, tortured cats, used hallucinogenic drugs and sexually abused women, according to investigators who have been probing her homicide for the past 16 months.

By disclosing the new information, investigators hope to stir public interest in watching the “America’s Most Wanted” episode scheduled to feature Simon’s case.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24156/satan-worshipers-possible-suspects-in-kimberly-simon-slaying/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23939/couple-gets-probation-in-case-linked-to-satanism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23939/couple-gets-probation-in-case-linked-to-satanism#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:31:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23939 A North Carolina couple whose crimes were linked to Satan worship pleaded to misdemeanor charges and will serve probation, a defense attorney said.

The case against a third person was dismissed last January.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23939/couple-gets-probation-in-case-linked-to-satanism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:59:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23316 In Today's RNB Roundup, • Inmate says jailers interfered with his Satanic religious practices. • Rastafarians tells an Italian judge their pound of marijuana was for religious purposes. • Quick, sell your TV: The PTL Club may soon be back on the screen • A look at Scandinavia's kinder, gentler atheists.

Also: • Leonard Cohen returns to the road, for reasons practical and spiritual, • Transcendental Meditation taught in American schools. And more...]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:56:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23220 The leader of a satanist sect in Russia's Republic of Mordovia that included more than 60 members has been arrested and the group shut down, investigators announced on Wednesday.

Investigators said the members rented a house where they "conducted cult ceremonies, including illegal acts of alcoholic binge drinking, sexual practices and antisocial behavior."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23220/satanic-cult-russia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:16:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23198 In the basement, officers find candles, Larry's ritual knife, stained with DNA from one of the girls, a symbol of Baphomet, representing Satan and believed to have occult power, bells and an amulet with an inverted pentagram -- all items used in rituals described in "The Satanic Bible."

Larry tells police he has a spell notebook in his and Marla's bedroom closet. The notebook contains drawings from the book "Pagan Ways," references found in the occult fiction book "Necronomicom" and page numbers corresponding to "The Satanic Bible," including one specific spell.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23198/lawrence-douglas-harris-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:57:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22372 The three girls and one boy, all described as Goths and aged 16 and 17, were allegedly forced to drink alcohol by the gang before they were attacked.

The killers then allegedly lit a bonfire under a tree near their cottage in Russia's Yaroslavl region, 300 miles north-east of Moscow, where they cooked and ate their victims' body parts.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22372/satanists-kill-and-eat-goths/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22186 The parents of a South African schoolboy accused of killing a fellow student with a sword said Thursday that he had experimented with Satanism and was bullied.

"We regret to say that it appears that Morne experimented with Satanism and that it gave him a kind of protection for his psyche," Machiel and Liza Harmse said in a statement in the Afrikaans daily newspaper Die Beeld.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22186/satanism-7/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 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:14:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21948 Harshbarger's tale begins at home in Indiana, where a lack of religious guidance combined with his parents' divorce led him to become a bitter, disaffected teen with an appetite for the sensational, including tales of supernatural phenomena.

While in college, he befriended a co-worker at his day job who was already a Satanist. The two made plans to form their own cult and set about recruiting members.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21948/refuge-ministries/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21921/diana-marsh http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21921/diana-marsh#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:24:16 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21921 A Tucson woman who is accused of killing her 5-year-old son was thoroughly brainwashed into believing a satanic cult was out to kill her and her son, and those closest to her were part of the plot, a forensic psychologist told jurors Wednesday.

Within a couple of months of meeting Tompson, Marsh testified, she became estranged from everyone she knew, including a pastor she was convinced was part of the satanic group.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21921/diana-marsh/feed 0