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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
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Timothy Twinam of Williston says he just wants to tell the truth about what's really going on inside the Exclusive Brethren, a well-heeled, reclusive evangelical Christian group with 43,000 members around the world. "This is a very closed group," said Twinam, 54, a native of Great Britain. "They don't circulate much with people, and over the years they've become ever more exclusive and cultish." The Exclusive Brethren says Twinam is a malcontent, a former church member who stole confidential documents to display them on www.Peebs.net, a Web site Twinam admits he created to encourage people to abandon the organization. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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A Victorian school run by the secretive Exclusive Brethren religious sect received more than $1 million in state taxpayer funding last year, new documents show. An analysis of Federal Government funding for Brethren schools also shows they will receive almost $12 million nationwide this year. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
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Members of the Exclusive Brethren were actively attempting to donate to John Howard's re-election campaign last year in a manner that meant the cash injection would not have been disclosed to the public, according to a new book about the secretive Christian sect. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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The world leader of the Exclusive Brethren made an unpublicised visit to New Zealand last week, arriving on Wednesday, amid strict security, to a large meeting of faithful in Wellington. The secretive Bruce Hales, known to Exclusive Brethren as the Elect Vessel or Mr Bruce, travelled in a black, tinted-window SUV and was screened from media by hired security guards and Brethren volunteers. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has rejected the pleas of former members of the Exclusive Brethren for a broad-ranging inquiry into the sect, saying it would unreasonably interfere with members' rights to practise their faith freely and openly. Last year Mr Rudd said the Brethren was an extremist cult whose activities broke up families. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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Most of us can recall the thrill of seeing our first action-packed film. For Will Proudlock, the boy hero of the new Garth Jennings movie Son of Rambow, the effect is intensified, as his illicit viewing of a Sylvester Stallone film is his first sight of a moving picture. Will belongs to a Plymouth Brethren family, and listening to music, watching television or seeing films are all forbidden to members of the reclusive religious sect. Seeing Rambo is therefore a life-changing experience for Will. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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The Exclusive Brethren sect has been cleared of two out of three allegations of breaching federal electoral law after a nine-month police investigation. A third investigation is continuing, but has so far yielded no evidence of wrongdoing. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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A former member of Nelson's Exclusive Brethren church facing historic sex charges has appeared in court for a depositions hearing. All details of evidence given at the hearing, in Nelson District Court on Friday, were suppressed. The lawyer for Clive Allen Petrie, 73, said he would apply for a stay on proceedings against his client because the charges related to matters dating back more than 50 years, the Nelson Mail reports. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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Plans for future expansion at the exclusive Agnew School, in Gerard Street, do not translate to an influx of Exclusive Brethren followers descending upon Toowoomba. The group, dubbed the most secretive Christian sect, has had a bad reputation in the national spotlight, according to Exclusive Brethren spokesman Tony McCorkell. FULL ARTICLE LINK
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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The world leader of the secretive Exclusive Brethren left Auckland yesterday after a week-long visit to New Zealand, but church members deny he was on any political mission. It was Elect-Vessel Bruce Hales' second visit to the church's 7000 New Zealand followers and culminated in meetings with 2000 of them at services in Mangere. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he has no knowledge of the dealings of the Exclusive Brethren and no involvement with the controversial religious sect. A News Ltd newspaper on Tuesday reported the federal police is investigating claims by the sect that an unsigned flyer is being distributed in its name in Mr Turnbull's Wentworth electorate. The sect already has denied claims by the Labor candidate for the seat, George Newhouse, that it is campaigning against him. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
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Kevin Rudd, who has labelled the Exclusive Brethren as "an extremist cult and sect'', once congratulated Brethren members in his Brisbane electorate for their good work. Mr Rudd, the Member for Griffith, expressed his pleasure at the Brethren's ``dedication to providing the highest quality of education for your students''. A few months later, Mr Rudd was accusing the Brethren of being a dangerous cult, as having a lack of tolerance and antiquated policies, particularly with regard to the treatment of children. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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An elderly former member of the Exclusive Brethren Church has appeared in court on a series of historic sex charges. The 72-year-old man was in Nelson District Court this morning, charged with six charges of indecent assault and one of inducing a girl to perform an indecent act on him. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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An Exclusive Brethren mother and two male relatives have risked jail by failing to present two children for planned access visits with their father. In February, Family Court judge Robert Benjamin convicted the mother, who cannot be named, her son and her son-in-law and imposed a four-month suspended jail sentence on all three after they did not present the children for their first access visit. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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The Exclusive Brethren sect faces a federal police investigation over its heavy advertising spending in favour of John Howard and the Liberal Party at the last federal election. The Age believes that the Australian Electoral Commission will announce today it is referring to police questions over whether sect members have lied about their involvement in the campaign. For 16 months the AEC has been investigating the source of funds used to pay for advertisements and leaflets in Mr Howard's electorate, Bennelong, and in South Australia and Tasmania, worth $370,000, in the days leading up to the election. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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