Category: Tony Alamo

Research resources: Apologetics Index entry on Tony Alamo / Alamo Christian Ministries

Cult leader Tony Alamo must reveal financial sources

Monday October 21, 2013 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

Cult leader Tony Alamo must reveal the source of finances he uses to pay his attorneys as legal authorities are trying to figure out how to satisfy judgments his victims have won against him.

The ‘evangelist,’ whose ministry is considered a cult both sociologically and theologically, is serving a 175-year prison sentence.

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Appeals court upholds dismissal of Alamo Ministries civil suit

Thursday January 12, 2012 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by members of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo‘s Christian Ministries, claiming an Arkansas agency infringed upon their religious rights in seizing children from their compound in 2008.

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Imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo in poor health

Sunday November 20, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

The lawyer for an Arkansas evangelist convicted of taking young girls across state lines for sex says his client was hospitalized for about two weeks but has since been released.

Tony Alamo was recently hospitalized with hospitalized with liver problems, heart attack and double pneumonia.

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Judge denies Tony Alamo attorney’s request to halt civil lawsuit

Thursday November 3, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

A federal judge has denied defense requests to halt proceedings in a civil lawsuit filed by former wives of Tony Alamo.

The judge ruled that the law does not permit civil defendants to request a halt to proceedings in cases it speculates may be the subject of a criminal investigation.

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Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Tony Alamo followers who had children taken away

Wednesday October 12, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from followers of evangelist Tony Alamo who had their children taken away when they wouldn’t agree not to expose them to the controversial ministry.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the taking of the children was not a barrier to the parents’ constitutional rights to practice religion.

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$66M verdict in suit against jailed cult leader Tony Alamo upheld

Thursday September 15, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

A federal magistrate has upheld a $66 million judgment against jailed evangelist Tony Alamo for abuse suffered by two boys when they were being reared in his ministry.

A jury awarded Seth Calagna and Spencer Ondrisek, former members raised in the controversial Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, $3 million apiece in actual damages and $30 million apiece in punitive damages after a trial in June.

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Ex-Followers Pursue Cult Leader Tony Alamo’s Assets

Monday June 20, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

Imprisoned cult leader Tony Alamo owes millions of dollars in court-ordered restitution for abusing some of his former followers, triggering a nationwide hunt for assets still controlled by the Arkansas ‘evangelist.’

Former followers have won millions in court judgments, but government and private investigators say Mr. Alamo kept few assets in his name, making it difficult to collect.

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2 former members of Tony Alamo cult awarded $33 million each in civil suit

Thursday June 2, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

Two former members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries have been awarded $33 million each after they sued Alamo for ordering them to be beaten.

The two men testified that evangelist Tony Alamo ordered his enforcer, John Kolbek, to beatÂ them.

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Civil trial to begin for evangelist convicted for taking girls across state lines for sex

Tuesday May 31, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

Evangelist Tony Alamo, who is serving a 175-year sentence in federal prison for taking young girls across state lines for sex, faces a civil trial starting Tuesday that he ordered the beating of two of his former ministryÂ members.

The alleged enforcer, John Kolbek, died last January while on the run.

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Court upholds decision to strip followers of Tony Alamo cult of parental rights

Friday April 29, 2011 RNB's Religion News Blog, Tony Alamo

The Arkansas Supreme Court says a judge was right to terminate the parental rights of seven people who saw their 16 children seized from the compound of evangelist Tony Alamo in 2008.

The judge concluded that, among other things, the children faced danger of beatings and forced fasts ordered by the evangelist who was convicted in 2009 of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex and sentenced to 175 years in prison.

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