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cult stories: 23 news summaries

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Germany to Try Scientology Ban

Lawmakers order domestic spies to gather a decade of data on the group

Dec 7, 07 10:22 PM CST
(Newser) - German ministers accused Scientology of being unconstitutional today and took steps to ban it from the country, Der Spiegel reports. They ordered spies to assemble a dossier on the group, based on 10 years of surveillance, to support the ban. Scientologists were outraged, and called themselves victims of "on-going... More »

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Scientology • Germany • religion • cult

Doomsday Cult Leader Pleads With Holed-up Flock

Followers refuse to release children

Nov 21, 07 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov today asked the doomsday cult he started to release four children from their underground cave, the AP reports. Confined to a psychiatric ward and charged with setting up a violent religion, Kuznetsov was brought to the site and spoke through a ventilation hole, telling adults and... More »

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Russia • religion • cult

Network Beams Dissidence
Into China

Satellite TV station part of media blitz by outlawed Falun Gong

Nov 15, 07 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - A US-based satellite TV station staffed mainly by members of spiritual movement Falun Gong is broadcasting a dissident message into China, the Wall Street Journal reports. With Falun Gong called an "evil cult" and outlawed by the Chinese government, its members have started New Tang Dynasty, a radio station,... More »

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China • television • corruption • Falun Gong • dissidents • cult • SARS • New Tang Dynasty

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