http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:54:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26373/rules-for-warren-jeffs%e2%80%99-followers-grow-more-restrictive http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26373/rules-for-warren-jeffs%e2%80%99-followers-grow-more-restrictive#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:34:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26373 As his followers mail out thousands of copies of apocalyptic "revelations from God" purportedly authored by imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, former members say he is setting out increasingly extreme rules for his people.

Several former FLDS members say the new requirements implemented by leaders loyal to Jeffs reach deep into followers' personal lives.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26373/rules-for-warren-jeffs%e2%80%99-followers-grow-more-restrictive/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26372/cult-leader-warren-jeffs-prophecies-famine-by-mob-rule http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26372/cult-leader-warren-jeffs-prophecies-famine-by-mob-rule#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:14:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26372 It appears that imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs is using his life sentence to sharpen his creative writing skills.

For the fourth time this year he has issued a set of revelations which he represents as coming directly from Jesus Christ.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26372/cult-leader-warren-jeffs-prophecies-famine-by-mob-rule/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26345/canadian-police-takes-child-bride-human-trafficking-investigation-to-texas http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26345/canadian-police-takes-child-bride-human-trafficking-investigation-to-texas#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:59:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26345 Officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force will be in Texas from Dec. 12 to 16 to gather information about underage Canadian girls believed to have been victimized by Warren Jeffs, the convicted pedophile and leader of a fundamentalist Mormon group.

Earlier this year, RCMP contacted Texas authorities after learning of 31 child brides with connections to Bountiful.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26345/canadian-police-takes-child-bride-human-trafficking-investigation-to-texas/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26314/former-polygamous-leader-says-probation-conditions-too-strict http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26314/former-polygamous-leader-says-probation-conditions-too-strict#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:09:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26314 A former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintssentenced to probation on bigamy charges may yet take back his plea and go to trial.

Wendell Nielsen says a judge departed from the bargain he had struck with prosecutors and imposed stricter probation conditions.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26314/former-polygamous-leader-says-probation-conditions-too-strict/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26309/warren-jeffs-doomsday-revelations http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26309/warren-jeffs-doomsday-revelations#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:34:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26309 Imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has released a series of so-called revelations in which he says a succession of natural disasters will strike the U.S.

In one of the five separate "revelations," Jeffs writes that Jesus Christ will make his coming known with a "great tsunami of the sea" on the East Coast; earthquakes and volcanoes in "populated places" in Utah and Arizona; a tidal wave in Seattle; and melting in Idaho "to cleanse my land of all evil." ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26309/warren-jeffs-doomsday-revelations/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26303/utah-drops-case-against-flds-cult-sect-leader-warren-jeffs http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26303/utah-drops-case-against-flds-cult-sect-leader-warren-jeffs#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26303 Utah prosecutors dropped charges Wednesday against FLDS sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas in a separate case.

"As a result of the conviction in Texas, we decided not to bring him back to Utah for a re-trial," said Brian Filter, senior deputy attorney for Washington County.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26303/utah-drops-case-against-flds-cult-sect-leader-warren-jeffs/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26240/former-flds-sect-leader-wendell-nielsen-challenges-texas-bigamy-law http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26240/former-flds-sect-leader-wendell-nielsen-challenges-texas-bigamy-law#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:15:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26240 A former polygamous sect leader facing bigamy charges in Texas is challenging that state’s bigamy law as unconstitutional.

In newly filed court documents in Schleicher County, Nielsen’s attorneys argue that the law unfairly targets groups with a religious belief in plural marriage.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26240/former-flds-sect-leader-wendell-nielsen-challenges-texas-bigamy-law/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26239/warren-jeffs-is-returned-to-prison-after-treatment http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26239/warren-jeffs-is-returned-to-prison-after-treatment#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:17:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26239 Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist FLDS, sect has recovered from illnesses that sent him hopping to prison units and hospitals around Texas.

Because of fasts and other unspecified medical conditions, Jeffs needed medical treatment shortly after he was sentenced in early August to life plus 20 years in prison.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26239/warren-jeffs-is-returned-to-prison-after-treatment/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26234/flds-member-michael-emack-still-fighting-texas-search-warrant http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26234/flds-member-michael-emack-still-fighting-texas-search-warrant#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:15:14 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26234 A polygamous sect man convicted of sexual assault isn’t giving up his fight against the search warrant that led to a massive raid on the sect’s remote Texas ranch.

Attorneys for Michael Emack filed a motion for rehearing in the Texas Third Court of Appeals this week.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26234/flds-member-michael-emack-still-fighting-texas-search-warrant/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26228/police-help-plural-wife-of-warren-jeffs-flee-polygamous-community http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26228/police-help-plural-wife-of-warren-jeffs-flee-polygamous-community#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:58:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26228 One of the wives of imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has left him and the FLDS Church and is being sheltered by law enforcement

The Washington County, Utah Attorney is looking into allegations that the 25-year-old woman was held against her will and even drugged.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26228/police-help-plural-wife-of-warren-jeffs-flee-polygamous-community/feed 0