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/23922/jonestown-cult-suicide-plague http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23922/jonestown-cult-suicide-plague#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23922 It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.

A simple, white stone plaque was unveiled with little fanfare Wednesday at the jungle clearing where more than 900 members of the cult led by the American preacher Jim Jones died in a night of mass murder and suicide on Nov. 18, 1978.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23922/jonestown-cult-suicide-plague/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23281/crystal-cathedral-suicide http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23281/crystal-cathedral-suicide#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:43:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23281 A man shot himself in the head Wednesday morning at the altar of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove and died at the scene, police said.

Church ushers said that a middle-aged man entered the church, saying he wanted to pray. The unidentified man walked up three steps to the altar area, knelt before a gold cross and put the gun to his head, said John Charles, director of public relations for the church.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23281/crystal-cathedral-suicide/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21381/emo-suicide-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21381/emo-suicide-3#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 01:11:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21381 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21381/emo-suicide-3/feed 0