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China Says it Smashed Cult, Not Underground Church

China is increasingly using anti-cult laws tightened last year during its Falun Gong crackdown to target other groups

Related Topics: News, Church, national scope church, Cult, anti cult laws, Sun, house churches, churchs founder, group, atheistic communist government, human rights campaigners

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A Year After Mass Murder, Uganda Cult Leaders Uncaught

The cult leaders presumed to have set the fire are still at large, while locals see ghosts of the victims.

Related Topics: News, Police, cult leaders, mass grave, presumed cult leaders, Cult, national police spokesman, makeshift mud and wattle temple, alleged cult leaders, young saplings pushes, leaders

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Cult Leader Guilty in Son's Death

Related Topics: News, Cult, cult leader, god, bizarre religious vision, Jacques Robidoux, life prison sentence, Vision, stillborn infant cousin, Death, sons death

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Hey, Who Are You Calling a Cult?

The LDS Church is less of a cult than many of the religions that accuse it of being one.

Related Topics: Faiths, Latter Day Saints, Religion, Cult, church leaders, charismatic founder, Church, sole source, unquestioning obedience machines, Exploitation, leaders death, doing things

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Apple's New iPhone: Harbinger of a New Religion... or Simply Genius Technology?

Gizmodo and Beliefnet Editors Don’t See Eye-to-Eye

Related Topics: Technology, practical sort.People trust, Religion, talented young writers, storage capacities, Apple, devoted technology fanatics, clamoring throngs, proven track record, Spirituality

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Falun Gong and the Internet

Falun Gong's Internet savvy was crucial to its organizing under the Chinese regime and its spread throughout the world.

Related Topics: Faiths, Falun Gong, Government, Chinese, Chinese Government, Chinese governments, Doomsday Cult, group, propaganda war, religious repression, meditative exercise

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Mind Over Matter

How Scientology's founder science-fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, created a religion of individualism and personal power.

Related Topics: Faiths, Scientology, Scientology, Religion, Mind, mind works, reactive mind, hubbard, religious movement, Sacred Text, belief system, Dianetics

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China Jails Member of `Evil Cult' for Importing Bibles by Thousands

Related Topics: News, Government, Church, cult publications, government policies, Bible, foreign ministry spokesman, China, shouters, Importing Bibles, risk persecution

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Bishop Criticizes Hong Kong Leader for Calling Falun Gong a Cult

Hong Kong Bishop criticizes labeling of Falun Gong a cult and expresses fears the church may come under similar attack

Related Topics: News, Government, Falun Gong, Religious Freedom, organizations, evil cult, foreign missionary martyrs, Suicide, question marks, Cult, Hong Kong