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Monday, 06 July 2009 |
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When schoolchildren break up for their summer holidays at the end of next month, India Jago, aged 12, and her brother Peter, 11, will be taking a vacation with a twist. While their friends jet off to Spain or the Greek islands, the siblings will be hunting for imaginary unicorns in Somerset, while learning about moral philosophy. The Jagos, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, are among 24 children who will be taking part in Britain’s first summer camp for atheists. The five-day retreat is being subsidised by Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, and is intended to provide an alternative to faith-based summer camps normally run by the Scouts and Christian groups. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Monday, 06 July 2009 |
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Most states have child abuse laws allowing some religious exemptions for parents who shun medicine for their sick children, but a few recent cases - including the Madeline Kara Neumann case in Weston - highlight thorny legal issues for parents practicing less-recognized faiths. Existing laws gradually have accounted for more well-known and established faiths, such as Pentecostalism, Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses. But recent cases in the news have judges and child care advocates dealing with parents who claim adherence to lesser-known faiths, such as a Minnesota family following an Internet-based group's American Indian beliefs, and an independent Oregon church that has been investigated in the past for the deaths of members' sick children. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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The worship of Santa Muerte, the Mexican grim reaper, has exploded in the Valley. She’s considered a saint by some, satanic by others. The U.S. government's labeled the religious movement as a "death cult." NewsChannel 5 went undercover to learn the truth behind Sante Muerte, the saint of death. SOURCE ARTICLE
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
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Followers of Mexico's "Saint Death" cult figure, revered by thieves and drug runners but also law-abiding housewives, say their faith is being persecuted by the government's war against drug cartels. Dozens of worshipers marched through Mexico City on Good Friday, many barefoot and showing off tattoos of the macabre cult figure, in the latest of a series of protests after soldiers and police bulldozed elaborate roadside shrines to the saint near the northern border with Texas. Known as "Santa Muerte" in Spanish, the saint is often depicted as a skeletal "grim reaper" draped in white satin robes, beaded necklaces and carrying a scythe. Followers leave offerings of tequila, rum, beer, cigarettes, cash, flowers and candy at altars adorned with rosaries and candles. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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In recent years, dozens of religion-based and guru-led Indian organizations got into the business of making and marketing offerings, be it health tonics, DVDs or education. Now, amid rising competition, including from those trying to piggyback on these brands, these organizations are realizing that they can’t just rely on a wing and a prayer. And, for starters, religious organizations are increasingly applying for a raft of trademark protections and initiating legal action against copycat websites. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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A relgious sect that is ignoring Victoria's gun and traffic laws is likely to attract fragile people and push them over the edge, a cult expert has warned. Raphael Aron, the director of Cult Counselling Australia, said news the Kingdom of Yahweh was operating in Melbourne was a concern, especially if it was linked to the House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas. Yisrayl Hawkins, the pastoral head of the House of Yahweh, has more than 20 children and four wives and is awaiting sentence after being found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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They're still ready for Armageddon at the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious sect that for almost two decades has kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people in a forest near Yellowstone National Park. But church leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been silenced by advanced Alzheimer's disease. And her followers say they've given up the assault rifles and armored vehicles they amassed in the late 1980s, part of a post-nuclear war "re-emergence" plan that brought national notoriety and a federal investigation. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
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This weekend the public will get what could be its last chance to walk around the old Centrepoint community grounds in Albany on Auckland's North Shore before they are sold. Centrepoint has a special place in New Zealand history as its best-known cult-community. It was founded by former businessman Bert Potter, whose philosophy of communal therapy and free sexual practices scandalised the country in the 1980s and 90s. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
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The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found. States such as Missouri, Kentucky and Minnesota have seen increases in their Amish populations of more than 130 percent. The Amish now number an estimated 227,000 nationwide, up from 123,000 in 1992, according to researchers from Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Alison Pels thought she had finally escaped the grasp of the cult Kenja Communications when she left the group in February last year. But six months later the then 20-year-old found herself the subject of a bizarre plot by Jan Hamilton and other members of the group, who disguised themselves with fake facial hair and wigs while posing as directors of a play. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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A Los Angeles County judge has turned down the latest bid by former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins to get a compassionate prison release before she dies from brain cancer while under guard at a Riverside-area hospital. The state parole board declined last week to urge a discharge for Atkins, 60. Her attorney had filed a petition with the judge seeking the same relief. Atkins was convicted of killing eight people during a bloody murder spree in the summer of 1969. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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A follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compassionate release Tuesday. The California Board of Parole released its unanimous decision on the release of Susan Atkins hours after a 90-minute hearing, during which it heard impassioned pleas from both sides. "Obviously, it was too hot of a potato for them to handle," said one of Atkins' attorney, Eric P. Lampel. "Of course we're disappointed. There's no basis for denying this." Lampel filed a motion July 10 with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Wesley asking for his client's release no matter what the parole board recommended. No hearing has been set, Lampel said after the hearing. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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Christopher Ciccone has cashed in on his sister's fame in a "tell all" book exposing the couple's private life. The book says Madonna's marriage to Ritchie in 2000 was the "death knell" for her relationship with her brother. He repays the favour with an unflattering picture of the couple as rumours swirl that they are on the brink of divorce. Madonna is attacked for using her power and wealth to force others to adhere to her faith in Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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Café owners in the Netherlands are joining religious movement known as the One and Universal Smokers Church of God, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday. ‘We stand firmly behind the church’s teachings and that is smoking,’ Cor Busch, owner of the former Lindeboom café in Alkmaar told the paper. ‘Smokers are being discriminated against… but a beer and a cigarette belong together.’ FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Two Orthodox rabbis have expressed grave concerns and called for government intervention after it emerged that a charity linked to the controversial Kabbalah Centre has been establishing a foothold in a number of UK primary and secondary schools. After the JC made inquiries at one Catholic school, Westminster’s St Vincent de Paul, it suspended lessons run by workers from the charity, Spirituality For Kids (SFK). SFK workers have been giving lessons in schools in two London boroughs, Westminster and Tower Hamlets. Parents have not been told about the lessons because they come under personal health, social and citizenship education, not religious study. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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