Category: Seventh-day Adventism

When Lynn’s son Bryce went to the annual Harvest Crusade, a Christian music and evangelism event, she had no way of knowing he would be lured into a cultic group known as the Twelve Tribes.

As Lynn discovered to her dismay, behind the quaint “freepapers” and homespun clothing is a religious system marked by exclusivism, racism, manipulation, and the spiritual domination of a man who calls himself “Yoneq.”

Seventh-day Adventists are among the other groups that chase down Crusade attendees.

Lindani Mangena, 24, posed as a top City trader to con more than 1,000 Seventh Day Adventists.

Lawyers for an executed inmate who objected to autopsy on religious grounds said Friday they were negotiating with state officials for a less invasive procedure.

The body of a strangled toddler was found inside the baptismal basin of Seventh-day Atventist Church in southern Brazil, police and church officials said Monday.

An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor jailed for 10 years for his part in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has been released.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which theologically is a cult of Christianity, has taken legal action against web sites run by former members.

After Diedre Renee Forte was sent two years ago to a routine supervisory class at the Metro Police Department Training Academy, in which the class watched a video that led to Forte’s religious affiliation being identified, her 27-year career with the department changed dramatically. It’s the main allegation Forte makes in a lawsuit she filed against the police department in federal court last week. Police spokesman Don Aaron would not comment on the suit, instead deferring to the Metro Legal Department. Forte, 46, claims that a training video “concerning David Koresh from the Branch Davidian” in Waco, Texas, resulted in