http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26319/shoko-asahara-second-retrial-plea-fails http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26319/shoko-asahara-second-retrial-plea-fails#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:03:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26319 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26319/shoko-asahara-second-retrial-plea-fails/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25097/court-shoots-down-asahara-retrial http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25097/court-shoots-down-asahara-retrial#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:08:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25097 Japan's Supreme Court has rejected a plea for a retrial for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row for masterminding the 1995 deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system as well as other crimes, sources said Wednesday.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25097/court-shoots-down-asahara-retrial/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22917/aum-shinrikyo-25 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22917/aum-shinrikyo-25#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:29:53 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22917 Lawyers for the Japanese doomsday cult leader on death row for ordering a deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 have requested a retrial, a court official said Tuesday.

The petition was based on what Asahara's lawyers considered new evidence from testimony by a senior member of the cult that the attacks had been carried out against their leader's wishes. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22917/aum-shinrikyo-25/feed 0