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Koreas-religious freedom
GlobalPost
"'Juche,' or self-reliance, remains an important ideological underpinning of the government, and the cult of personality of the late Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong Il (Jong-il) extends to Kim Jong Un (Jong-un)," it said. Some scholars claim that the “Juche ...

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A Christian minister who sold a phony cancer cure that included suntan lotion and beef flavoring has been jailed and fined.

Cult expert Steve Hassan joins the Board of Advisor of Child-Friendly Faith Project.

And the leader of a church whose wealth is "impossible to calculate" tells world leaders what to do with their money.

Plus: You won't believe what people claim is going on inside the Kashi Ashram. And the head of Saudi Arabia's religious police makes our 'Religious Insanity' file.

Full story: Religion News Briefs, Monday, May 20, 2013

Spanking in the Name of the Lord - San Diego Free Press
San Diego Free Press
An isolated Texas religious group, the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, saw the removal of hundreds of children from polygamous church members who had forced young girls into “spiritual” marriages with adult men. Finally ... She ...

Spanking in the Name of the Lord - San Diego Free Press
San Diego Free Press
These stories, however, just scratch the surface of a more widespread problem concerning the mistreatment of children in the name of religion, says Janet Heimlich, author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment. ... She ...

Spanking in the Name of the Lord - San Diego Free Press
San Diego Free Press
*Side note: shortly before my interview with Janet and while I was compiling notes for this article, my daughter and I were pushing our bikes through the OB Farmer's Market when we came across the Morning Star Ranch booth run by the Twelve Tribes ...

In October, 2011, two teenage girls were doused with petrol and set alight on a hill south of Johannesburg, South Africa, in what authorities, prosecutors and the accused say was a Satanic ritual killing.

Full story: Satanic ritual killing trial continues in Johannesberg

PhilBoxing.com
Tom Little Interview – Discusses Tom Dallas, Luke Martin, Graham Earl and more
PhilBoxing.com
The change is so extreme that I for one am looking forward to watching him in action, at Johnny Eames' TKO Events promoted 'Two Tribes' event at York Hall in London on Saturday June 1st. ... Tom: I was amateur from the age of twelve, up to seventeen.

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The Beatles - Help!
High-Def Digest
As a result, he and his bandmates John, Paul and George are chased from London to the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientist and the London police. In addition to starring the Beatles, 'Help!' has a witty script, a ...

AMERICAblog (blog)
Priests led violent mob of 20000 against gay protesters in (former Soviet) Georgia
AMERICAblog (blog)
I'm an orthodox Christian. Greek Orthodox. We're part of the larger umbrella of faiths that make up the the Eastern Orthodox faith (which includes Russian Orthodox). And to the notion that a priest would lead a violent mob, and then violently attack ...

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Tom Little in great shape for June 1 return
WBN - World Boxing News
The change is so extreme that I for one am looking forward to watching him in action, at Johnny Eames' TKO Events promoted 'Two Tribes' event at York Hall in London on Saturday June 1st. ... Tom: I was amateur from the age of twelve, up to seventeen.

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Detroit Photos Of The Week 5/13 - 5/19: Doing The Jit, Street On Fire And ...
Huffington Post
Rodriguez's two albums in the early 1970s received little attention in the United States but he unknowingly developed a cult following in South Africa during the apartheid era. He was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man.".

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High court to review church-state dispute over public prayers
CNN (blog)
M, is your thinking so limited that you cannot conceive of an atheist vocalizing their best hopes for a legislative body, perhaps if only to request it to ignore religious cult mythology as it deals with real world problems? May 20, 2013 at 1:02 pm ...

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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Scholars in Bondage
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Weiss's neutrality here would be more palatable if she were indeed merely recording or chronicling, but her own biases are palpably invested in her avoidance of religion and her moralistic stands on economics. Staci Newmahr, an assistant professor of ...

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Scholars in Bondage
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Thus any references to religion or spirituality are passed by without comment. She also refuses to consider or inquire about any psychological aspect to her subjects' sexual proclivities, ..... notably a polychrome plaster statue in my baptismal church ...

Second Thoughts about Pope Bergoglio: A Liberation Pope or Just More Blah ...
OpEdNews
True, the new pope faltered with early missteps regarding women. He seemed to reiterate Benedict XVI's admonition to U.S. women religious to focus more on the issues of contraception, abortion, and same-sex marriage, rather than on issues of social ...

Church of Scientology to Sponsor “Sharing Our Blessings” Fundraiser Featuring ...
PR Web (press release)
The Church of Scientology is sponsoring and hosting the upcoming “Sharing Our Blessings” event featuring performer Lillette Jenkins-Wisner. The event is being held to benefit Wisner's Foundation for the Arts, created to support promising performing ...

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Charisma News
Charismatic Catholic Rocker Finds Crossover Appeal With Evangelicals
Charisma News
Growing up Roman Catholic in Newfoundland, Matt Maher never imagined that his childhood interest in music would lead to a career as a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Christian rocker—let alone a crossover artist featured on Christian radio and in ...

Livemint
Internal Security 101
AllAfrica.com
The SSS, for instance, had never lost any of its officers to Boko Haram in all these years of fighting, but, in one single day, it lost 10 officers to the Ombatse cult. The Ombatse killed ... Even as I write this piece, we are all just sitting and ...
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Jonathan declares emergency rule in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa - GuardianThe Guardian Nigeria
Nigeria: The war within - Nigerian TribuneNigerian Tribune

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Federal prosecutors and attorneys are seeking the seizure of more buildings from cult leader Tony Alamo -- who is serving a 175-year prison sentence for taking girls as young as nine as his 'wives.'

The properties are to be sold in order to satisfy judgements against Alamo.

Full story: Prosecutors, atty’s to seize more properties from cult leader

Miami Chiropractor Forced Employees To Convert to Scientology, Feds Allege
Miami New Times (blog)
According to his personal website, Scientology is a major influence in his life. "We apply Scientology principles in our work, our family life, all aspects of our life," he writes of himself and his wife. "I have applied L. Ron Hubbard's business ...