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THURSDAY MAY 6, 2004

JOSHUA AnD CALEb THOMPSOn:
Beaten Bible study student settles for $1.5 million
An Austin church has settled a lawsuit over the severe beating of a Bible study
student who had misbehaved during a summer class.
FRIDAY DECEmBER 12, 2003

Pastor, brother sentenced to prison in beating case
AUSTIN - A church pastor was sentenced to 26 years in prison Friday for severely
beating a Bible studies student with a tree branch after the child misbehaved during
a summer class.
THURSDAY DECEmBER 11, 2003

Brothers Guilty in Beating at Bible Study
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A pastor and his brother were convicted Wednesday in the
beating of a Bible student, who was struck repeatedly with a tree branch after acting
up during a summer church program.

Pastor says he hit boy at Bible study, but not 100 times
AUSTIN - A church pastor admitted today that he struck a Bible studies student
several times across the back with a stick, but denied he delivered the 100 blows the
victim said he suffered.
THURSDAY DECEmBER 4, 2003

Two on Trial in Bible Studies Beating
Texas Pastor, Twin Brother on Trial in Case of Boy Getting Beaten During
Bible Studies
MOnDAY DECEmBER 1, 2003

Jury selection begins for Thompson brothers trial
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Joshua and Caleb Thompson.
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The pastor’s twin brother received a 14-year sentence for his role in the beating.
“Justice was served,” prosecutor Beth Payan said. Caleb Thompson
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the crime.
“You never know what a jury is going to do,” Garcia said. “It’s a volatile subject matter. Was it justice? Only time will tell.”
Prosecutors had said the brothers beat Guerrero, now 12, so badly on July 3, 2002, that he spent a week in intensive care under the
threat of kidney failure and needed a blood transfusion.
The jury convicted the brothers Wednesday and took about seven hours over two days to decide the sentences.
The victim’s mother, Norma Arellano, and stepfather, Genevevo Arellano, held hands while the sentences were announced. The brothers
showed no emotion as they were immediately sent to prison.
The brothers’ father, Hank Thompson, leads the church and dozens of members of the congregation sat in stunned silence in the
courtroom, while Joshua Thompson’s wife, Maressa, sat in the front row behind the defendants and cried.
Relatives of the victim and defendants all left the courtroom without comment after the sentences were announced.
Guerrero and a doctor who treated him said he was hit at least 100 times. During the trial, jurors saw graphic photos of the boy’s back
with red and purple bruises and blood spots from scrapes or puncture wounds.
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The brothers admitted the beating but disputed the blow count and its intensity. Joshua Thompson said Guerrero’s parents had given
him permission to punish the boy and that he didn’t intend to inflict serious injuries. Guerrero’s parents deny telling him he could hit
their child.
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Joshua Thompson was the pastor of the Spanish-speaking congregation at the
fundamentalist Capitol City Baptist Church, where the boy was attending summer
Bible camp in July 2002.
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Nevertheless, he said he knowingly violated church policy against corporal
punishment for students and that he and his brother took Guerrero to Caleb Thompson’s house.
Joshua Thompson said he cut a switch from a bush, clipped off the twigs and leaves, and struck Guerrero several times while the boy
laid on a bed and Caleb Thompson held his arms. The switch was about two feet long and the width of his ring finger, Joshua Thompson
said.
Joshua Thompson said they were at the house about 10 or 15 minutes and that he didn’t know how many times he hit Guerrero. But
he disputed the boy’s testimony that it was as many as 100 times.
“I did not strike him 100 times,” he said. “I really don’t know how many times I hit him. The first couple of swats I don’t believe he
cried, but then he started to cry. … When Louie started crying, I started crying. “
Joshua Thompson, who has no children, said he had never before physically disciplined a child. He said he did it that day because that’s
what he thought the boy’s parents wanted. He said he had asked his brother to come to the house to be a witness.
He said the three prayed before leaving the house to go back to the church, asking God to help Guerrero end his disruptive behavior.
The boy had been expelled from the church school several months earlier.
Guerrero testified earlier that the beating lasted longer that an hour and that Joshua Thompson used two tree branches, forcing him to
pick up the pieces of the first one when it disintegrated. He said Joshua Thompson told him the beating was to “get the devil out” of
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Joshua Thompson said the boy appeared normal after the punishment was finished and that he saw no signs of injury. Jurors last week
saw graphic photos with red and purple marks across most of the boy’s back and blood splotches that appeared to come from scrapes
and puncture wounds.
Guerrero’s family members have said they did not give anyone outside the family permission to physically discipline they boy and that
they called 911 after discovering his injuries
Although Joshua Thompson admitted striking the boy, defense attorneys have suggested the most serious injuries were caused by
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After the beating, Thompson dropped the boy off at his home and told Guerrero’s stepfather “that child has the devil in him,” the
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injuries. But Goldstein said the boy’s parents practiced similar forms of punishment and had asked the Thompsons to discipline their
child.
He said expert testimony would show the injuries to the boy’s kidneys could not have come from a tree branch or stick.

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The Thompson brothers are pastors at the Capitol City Baptist Church (a 'King
James Only' church). They are in trouble for reportedly injuring a boy while
administering corporal punishment for 'misbehaving' in Bible class. Court records
obtained by Reuters alleged that the beating lasted for 90 minutes, broke blood
vessels and caused the boy's kidneys to fail.
Though the Bible talks about spanking as a form of discipline (proponents

typically cite only a handful of verses from the Book of Proverbs), it does not
condone abuse.
[A]n 11-year-old boy is in Intensive Care at a Texas hospital. Police say

he was beaten as punishment for failing to study his bible.
Arrest warrants are out on two young ministers at this Baptist church in
Austin in connection with the beating of an 11-year-old boy into
unconsciousness. The child's attorney says they did it because the boy did
not take his bible verses seriously enough.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BOBBY TAYLOR, BOY'S ATTORNEY: They took him to this private home,
and the person who took him was the -- I won't call him youth minister,
but he was a 22-year-old minister, and apparently, he may have been the
son of the minister of the church -- cut a branch off a tree, made my client
lay on the bed, and then began to beat him, and beat him for almost an
hour.
BLITZER: The child is reportedly conscious now, but has been in a local
intensive care ward since the middle of last week. The incident allegedly
occurred while the boy was attending a religious summer camp at the
church, for Spanish-speaking children. But, church officials say that,
because this happened at a subchapter for Spanish- speaking members, it's
not a church matter, and they won't comment on camera. Still, the head
pastor told our local CNN affiliate over the phone he was heartbroken over
the incident.
JERALD FINNEY, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Pastor Hank Thompson, the pastor

of Capitol City Baptist Church, would not - would never - he's instructed all
his personnel not to use corporal punishment against the children of church
members.
BLITZER: The child's parents refused to speak on camera, but they said
when the young ministers dropped their son off at home, one of them told
the parents they should discipline the boy further.
Source: CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports , July 9, 2002
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AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Austin police arrested a church pastor and his
twin brother Tuesday, alleging they used a tree branch to beat unconscious
an 11-year-old who misbehaved in Bible class.
Joshua Thompson, 22, a pastor at Capitol City Baptist Church, and his
brother Caleb turned themselves in Tuesday and were released on $25,000
bond, KEYE-TV reported. They were charged with injury to a child, a felony
punishable by up to life in prison, the station reported.
The alleged beating took place July 3, according to reports. The brothers
thought the boy did not take his Bible verses seriously enough during a
church-sponsored summer camp for Spanish-speaking students, officials
said.
The alleged abuse took place at a private home, said Bobby Taylor, the
child's attorney. "They ... cut a branch off a tree, made my client lay on
the bed, and beat him," Taylor said.
Court records obtained by Reuters alleged that the beating lasted for 90
minutes, broke blood vessels and caused the boy's kidneys to fail. The
brothers allowed the child to take a break in the restroom during the
reported beating, documents said.
Joshua Thompson beat the child while Caleb Thompson held him down,
Reuters reported, citing court records. They reportedly turned up a radio to
drown out the child's cries, the news service reported.
Afterward, the two took the boy back to his home, where Joshua
Thompson told the parents the child needed further discipline, the AP
reported.
After the Thompsons left, the boy's parents discovered bruises and cuts
covering his entire back, as well as bruises on his neck, buttocks and legs,
AP reported. They called police and took their son to a hospital, where he
remained in fair condition Tuesday, the news service said.
Capitol City Baptist does not support corporal punishment, said Jerald
Finney, Joshua Thompson's lawyer.
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On December 10, 2003, twenty-four year old twin brothers Joshua and
Caleb Thompson were convicted in an Austin, Texas court of injury to a
child. Joshua was sentenced to twenty-six years and Caleb to fourteen
years in the Texas state penitentiary. The injury to a child charge was for
applying corporal punishment to an eleven year-old boy who attended their
church. We are not arguing guilt or innocence, but rather that their
sentences are unreasonably severe, giving the impression to the rest of the
U.S. that the state of Texas harbors a vindictive attitude toward Christians
who violate the law. We assume this is not true and feel that reducing
these unreasonably severe sentences is the best way to illustrate to the
entire country that Texas does not harbor prejudice or malice toward its
Christian population.
Joshua and Caleb Thompson have absolutely no past criminal record, and
we are confident that they would never make this same mistake again. The
purpose of this website is to awaken Christians in America to the
dangerous level of moral decline in our political and judicial systems, and
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The women, “few feel very depressed after they were released,” added the
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She said elders of the church were unable to attend Sunday’s worship service as they have been out under house arrest. “I called
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elder said that the policeman sat and lay too close to the door of his apartment, which made it absolutely impossible to open his
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calls with church elders, “because we could hardly hear each others words except the buzzing noise” on the phone. “It seldom
happened before when calling to China from my apartment.”
Hours earlier security forces arrested several leaders of the Shouwang Church, including Senior Pastor Jin Tianming and Pastor
Li Xiaobai with his wife, before releasing them late Saturday and early Sunday, said China Aid Association (CAA), a Christian
rights group.
Last Sunday, April 10, 169 church members were rounded up by police and held for up to 24 hours when they attempted to hold a
worship service in a public plaza in western Beijing, CAA said.
CAA told BosNewsLife that Christians have also lost their homes and jobs. “Many members of the Shouwang Church, one of
Beijing’s largest house churches with about 1,000 members, have been forced out of their homes by landlords who have come
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Shouwang Church has been holding open air meetings after being evicted by authorities who are reportedly wary to lose control
over religion and the increasing number of Christians in the Communist-run nation.
Earlier this month church members were seen crying when the landlord told them they “can no longer worship at” Beijing’s “Old
Story Restaurant”, where walls are lined with pictures of Chinese Party leaders shaking hands with former U.S. presidents.
The standoff comes at a time when the Chinese Communist government is stepping up control over what it views as groups
potentially undermining the country’s one-party system — including thriving house churches — amid concerns that revolutions
against autocratic leaders in the Arab world will encourage more open calls for political and religious freedoms in China.
There are believed to be at least tens of millions of Protestant Christians in China, divided between registered Catholic and
Protestant denominations and the underground, “house “churches, such as Shouwang Church. Many of the house churches
began as small Bible groups at homes of individual believers but soon grew into much largest congregations.
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government. “They waited for two years, and when the government
still denied them registration, they tried to keep a low profile before
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Shouwang is a very unique church, he said.
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religious scholars and even former government officials, which may
be a factor in the government’s response to them,” he said.
As one of the largest house churches in Beijing, Shouwang is unique in insisting on meeting together rather than splitting the
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congregation into smaller groups meeting in several locations, Fu said. Zion church, for example, may have more members than
Shouwang, but members meet in smaller groups across the city.
“This is based on the founding fathers’ vision for Shouwang Church to be a ‘city on a hill,’” as stated in the Bible in Matthew
chapter five, Fu explained. “So they’ve made a conscious decision not to go back to the small-group model. Either the
government gives them the keys to their building or gives them written permission to worship in another location, or they will
continue meeting in the open.”
Police arrested anyone who showed up to take part in the service, AP reported.
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Church leaders last week issued a statement to the congregation explaining their decision to meet outdoors.
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“It may not be the best decision, but at this time it is an inevitable one,” the statement said,
before reminding church members that the landlord of their premises at the time, the Old
God and China
Story Club restaurant, had come under government pressure and repeatedly asked them to
Journalist: Christians poised to reshape leave, while the previous owners of the Daheng New Epoch Technology building, purchased
China’s future
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Shouwang Church from meeting in May and August of last year.
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Comments & resources by ReligionNewsBlog.com “For example, right now I know of at least two churches that were made ‘homeless’ in
Guangzhou this week, including one church with at least 2,00 members,” he said.
Shouwang’s statement pointed to Article 36 of China’s Constitution, which grants every citizen freedom to worship, and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ratified by China, which states that every citizen has the right to observe his religion or
belief “either alone or in community with others and in public or private.”
For this reason the church planned to meet outdoors until officials granted legal, written permission to worship in an approved
location – preferably at the building purchased by the church.
The document also advised church members not to resist if they were held under house arrest or arrested at the Sunday venue.
“Objectively speaking, our outdoor worship must deliver this message to the various departments of our government: attending
Sunday worship is the most basic necessity for Christians in their life of faith,” the statement concluded.
The number of Protestant house church Christians in China is estimated at between 45 and 60 million, according to Yu Jianrong,
a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Rural Development Institute, with a further 18 to 30 million people
attending government-approved churches.
- China Keeps Church Leaders from Public Worship Attempt, Compass Direct News, Apr. 11, 2011 — © Compass Direct News.
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Chinese police harassed female members from one of Beijing’s largest
underground Protestant churches before releasing them and most of
other Christians detained Sunday, April 17.
They were among a group of some 30 members who were being

detained Sunday morning when they tried to pray outdoors.
WEDnESDAY APRIL 13, 2011

Police in China held “about two dozen” pastors and elders of Beijing’s
Shouwang Church under house arrest or at police stations over the
weekend to keep them from attending a Sunday worship service in a
public location.
Three top leaders of the church remain in jail and several others are
under strict surveillance. Chinese police arrested at least 160 members of the 1,000-
strong church as they tried to assemble.
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An ethnic minority house church leader remained detained in China’s
troubled northwestern Xinjiang region Sunday, March 6, after a court
rejected an appeal to review his 15 years prison sentence on charges of
revealing state secrets to overseas groups.
United Nations officials and local Christians have linked the sentence to
Pastor Alimujiang Yimiti’s Christian conversion, his leadership of a house church with
his wife Gulinuer and two sons, and apparent involvement in sharing reports of
religious persecution.
FRIDAY DECEmBER 10, 2010

China Launches Major Crackdown on House Churches; Labels Them a “Cult”
In a troubling setback, Chinese authorities last week launched a
crackdown directed at Christians who belong to China’s huge network of
unregistered house churches, calling a “cult” one of the fastest-growing
populations of Christians in the world.
ChinaAid says according to the Politburo’s top-secret instructions, the

crackdown on the largest component of the mainland Chinese church is to continue
through March 2011.
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A massive global evangelical gathering known as the Lausanne Congress
will begin Oct. 16 in Cape Town, South Africa. But it looks likely to take
place without the participation of 230 Chinese delegates.
So far, at least 11 people planning to attend have been forbidden to

leave China, and many others have come under pressure. Many fear
Beijing is moving to exert control over underground Christians.
MOnDAY AUGUSt 9, 2010

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Christians in China under government attack
Christians in China face a pattern of state surveillance, harassment,
intimidation and threat that has increased over the past 18 months, as the
Communist Party of China struggles to come to terms with what some say is a
difficult truth: its policy on religion is failing.
THURSDAY JULY 22, 2010

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China tortured, killed Tibetans in 2008 crackdown, rights group says
For offenses as minor as printing a Tibetan flag, sending a text message about
rioting or holding a photograph of the Dalai Lama, large numbers of Tibetans were
badly beaten and tortured, and in some cases killed, by Chinese security forces in
2008, a human rights group reported Thursday.
In the most comprehensive report yet on the crackdown on Tibetans during and
after March 2008 protests, the most serious in decades, New York-based Human
Rights Watch interviewed 203 people described as Tibetan eyewitnesses.
“The scale of human rights violations related to suppressing the protests was far
greater than previously believed,” the report states. “Chinese forces broke
international law — including prohibitions against disproportionate use of force,
torture and arbitrary detention.”
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minorities.
TUESDAY DECEmBER 8, 2009

China Sentences Uyghur Church Leader To 15 Years Imprisonment
China has sentenced an Uyghur house church leader to 15 years
“criminal detention” on charges of “providing state secrets to overseas
organizations”, but his supporters linked the sentence to his Christian
activities.
China Aid Association (CAA), an advocacy group with close ties to house
churches, said Monday, December 7, that 36-year-old Alimujiang Yimiti received the
sentence October 28, but that he his lawyers have filed an appeal.
WEDnESDAY DECEmBER 2, 2009

Five pastors arrested without a warrant in China’s Shanxi Province as
they were en route to file a complaint over the demolition of their
church building have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven
years.

In one of the most oppressive measures against Christians in recent

years, house church leader Yang Rongli was sent to prison for seven years for
“illegally occupying farming land” and “disturbing transportation order by gathering
masses,” according to China Aid Association (CAA). She and four other pastors were
sentenced on Wednesday (Nov. 25) at the People’s Court of Raodu district, Linfen
City, Shanxi Province.
THURSDAY OCtOBER 8, 2009

Following a mob attack on a church in northeastern China and the
demolition of their worship site last month, the government put officials
on alert to use military force against churches to quell potential
“unrest,” according to a leading advocacy group.
In the wee hours of Sept. 13 some 400 uniformed police and civilians
bearing shovels, batons, bricks, iron hooks and other weapons beat members of the
church who were sleeping at the nearly finished factory building used as a worship
site. [video]
WEDnESDAY SEPtEmBER 2, 2009

China’s government has issued a secret directive to dismantle at least
six major house churches in and outside the capital Beijing ahead of the
upcoming 60th anniversary of Communist rule in the country, according
to Christian right investigators.
China Aid Association President Bob Fu linked the events to the

upcoming 60th anniversary of China’s Communist Party. However, “The upcoming
60th anniversary…is not [a] cause for trampling on rights of peaceful citizens…” he
added.
FRIDAY AUGUSt 15, 2008

CHInA :
Some Olympians Dissatisfied With Religious Center
The Olympic Village’s religious center has become the target of a quiet
protest by athletes, coaches and other delegates who say its staffing and
services fall woefully short of the promises made by Chinese organizers.
Previous Olympic hosts welcomed foreign chaplains, but China has

banned them from living with the athletes.
MOnDAY SEPtEmBER 17, 2007

CHInA :
Chinese church leader released from prison after 3-year sentence for
distributing Bibles
Cai had been detained about 14 months before he was convicted in November 2005.
His pretrial detention appeared to have been counted toward his sentence.
FRIDAY JULY 20, 2007

CHInA :
Chinese police raid bible camp held by unregistered church group, 10
detained
Authorities in eastern China raided a vacation bible school organized by an
unauthorized Protestant church group, detaining 10 people, an overseas monitoring
group said Thursday.
MOnDAY JULY 9, 2007

CHInA :
Report: China sentences 2 leaders of unofficial church on cult charges

Two ministers in China’s unrecognized Protestant church have been sentenced to one
year each in a labor camp on charges of using an “evil cult” to obstruct the law, an
overseas monitoring group said Monday.
THURSDAY MAY 10, 2007

CHInA :
Anxiety, emptiness fuel Confucius craze in China
Pop culture offerings in China these days run the gamut from Hollywood
blockbusters to domestic versions of “American Idol,” but it is a book about the
ancient sage Confucius that is causing all the buzz in the streets.
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2007

CHInA :
Four US Christians held in China’s Xinjiang
Police in China detained four US church leaders and a group of Chinese Christians
after they held a religious gathering in the remote northwest region of Xinjiang, a
rights group said Wednesday.

CHInA :
Chinese political advisors call for early formulation of anti-cult law
Chinese political advisors have called on the nation’s legislature for drafting a
systematic anticult law as early as possible to provide a solid legal foundation in
the fight against cults.
SUnDAY MARCH 4, 2007

CHInA :
Once-atheist China has a religious awakening
Chinese by the tens of millions shed decades of state-imposed atheism. The
phenomenon has gained momentum so fast that it appears to have taken the
government by surprise.
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Brotherhood, Neo-Nazi organizations, and Islamic extremists who promote an extremist interpretation of
jihad and encourage such attrocious acts as suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism.
What makes Scientology a hate group?
Some movements, such as the Scientology organization and its so-called Cult Awareness Network, do
not primarily focus on hatred. However through deceitful propaganda and misinformation they
nevertheless create an atmosphere among its members in which hatred toward certain outsiders thrives
virtually unchecked. Two examples:
the group's lies about the French government views on cults and sects, and
the despicable activities of the cynically-named Scientology front-group Citizens Commission on
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Largely due to its irresponsible approach to ''free speech,'' the United States of America has in recent
become a safe haven for hate groups:
It is simple in principle: if illicit content is really to be prevented, then that must happen where it
is put on the net. In matters of racism, that is primarily in the USA. Indeed, large providers like
America Online have taken measures against racist offerings on their public systems when they have
been made aware of it. Racist groups, however, can retreat to their own autonomous internet
computers without problem because their provider has separated its own responsibility from that of
the content put on the net by its customers. This circumstance is also being exploited by people in
foreign countries who use computers on U.S. territory to globally distribute their propaganda. In this
way, the USA has used the label of freedom of speech to develop into the world's leading ''safe
harbor'' for racists.
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German Interior minister Otto Schily is contemplating the use of spam in his battle against neo-Nazi
Web sites, a government official confirmed Tuesday.
''We want to fight the neo-Nazi Web sites, but are not thinking about hacking,'' said Dirk Inger,
Interior ministry spokesman.
The online edition of Germany's Der Spiegel has reported that Nazi sites could face a government-
ordered DoS (denial of service) attack. By flooding the Web server with information requests, the
extremist site would be paralyzed. Early last year Web giants like eBay and Yahoo were taken down
in DoS attacks staged by a young hacker.
If nothing else works, Nazi sites can be taken down with spam or DoS attacks, Schily said according
to Der Spiegel. However, spokesman Inger downplayed the article.
Besides online action, the government is looking at the possibilities of bringing civil actions in U.S.
courts against those who create neo-Nazi sites targeted at Germany. As of yet, no cases have been
filed and no online action has been taken, Inger said. Publications deemed to incite racial hate, as
well as Nazi insignia and slogans, are banned in Germany. Extreme right-wing propagandists have
found a safe haven in the United States, where they are protected by the First Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution. Most neo-Nazi Web sites are hosted in the United States, Inger said.
Source: Germany plots cyberattacks on neo-Nazi sites, InfoWorld, Apr. 10, 2001
The United States could do more to curb the use of the Internet for racist material while
upholding freedom of speech, experts said at a U.N. meeting Wednesday.
''New forms of communications technology such as the Internet are being used to support the
dissemination of racial hatred,'' Mary Robinson, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told
participants in a three-day seminar on racism.
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''The United States has developed into a safe haven for racists spreading their word worldwide by
using the Internet,'' Swiss-based information technology law expert David Rosenthal said in a paper
submitted to the conference, which started Wednesday.
European countries, most of which outlaw racist speech, say most racist and hate sites are made
available in or through the United States, he said.
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appeals court ruled. Religion News Blog headlines by Email

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“An equally dangerous cult called Remnant Fellowship found itself under scrutiny
when two of its members were arrested, tried and convicted of murdering one of
their children when they followed the child-rearing directions of the cult’s Remember These Stories?
leadership, self-anointed ‘prophetess’ Gwen Shamblin and her sycophant
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lieutenant, Tedd Anger,” the post read, according to court documents. “When the
in 'biblical chastisement' beating death,
members, Joseph and Sonya Smith, went to trial, however, Remnant was able to
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Martinez also called Shamblin a “twisted woman” who was “blindly followed by Converting Hindus
about 1100 or so people, many of whom are children who are just as vulnerable
to the practical lifestyle excesses Shamblin advances as ‘God’s Way,’ and who
likely have endured abuses that would make you swallow hard.”
A trial court dismissed Shamblin’s lawsuit against Martinez.
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Theologically, Remnant Fellowship is a cult of Christianity due in part to its rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity – one of the essential
doctrines of the Christian faith.
Sociologically the movement appears to have some cult-like elements as well, including heavy-handed authoritarianism, the reported
suggestion that those who leave are “devils,” and the reported shunning of ex-members.
Shamblin is known for her book “The Weigh Down Diet” a “faith-based weight loss” program also promoted in The Weigh Down
Workshop.
Rafael Martinez’ website includes research resources on Gwen Shamblin, her teachings, and the cultic church she leads.
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A Jordanian court will begin this month the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet
Mohammed, but it was unclear if he will attend, AFP reports:
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Westergaard said Friday, pointing out that “I do not want to risk
becoming familiar with the Jordanian prisons, which would be hell.”
“I have not done anything illegal in Denmark. I only did my job and I will
always defend the right to freedom of expression,” he said, reiterating
meanwhile that he had “never had the intention to offend Muslims and
their faith with my caricature.”
The drawing, he insisted, was “a condemnation of terrorists who commit acts of terror in the name of Islam.” [...]
Westergaard himself has faced numerous death threats and even assassination attempts since the initial publication of his
drawing in the Jyllands-Posten daily, which has also been the target of a number of attack plots.
Indeed, DPA reports:
A Danish court Friday remanded a Tunisian-born man in custody on suspicion of plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper that
published controversial caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. [...]
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Previously, three other Swedish men – also suspected of being part of the plot – remain in custody in Denmark.
All four men were arrested on December 29 in a joint operation conducted by Danish and Swedish police.
According to the police, the men had planned to kill as many people as possible during the attack on the Jyllands-Posten
newspaper.
Our opinion: Muslims must understand that Islam is not above criticism, and that people in civilized countries will not sacrifice free
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The leader of a small religious group, already facing charges for allegedly
raping his teenage daughter in the name of God, is now being accused by
his own sister, the Deseret News reports: Religion News Blog headlines by Email

The woman says he also coerced her into having sex by taking advantage of her
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Terrill Dalton has proclaimed himself to be the Holy Ghost and the father of
Firstborn and the General Assembly of Heaven,
Jesus. “From the Lord I’ve been told, ‘Yes, that’s who I am,’” Dalton said in a
2009 interview. Along with Geody Harman, Dalton leads a small group called RNB's Religion News Roundup
The Church of the Firstborn and the General Assembly of Heaven.

Last year, Dalton’s daughter accused both men of rape, at her father’s
command, when she was 15. They’re now in the Salt Lake County Jail, awaiting
court action. Terrill Dalton faces a preliminary hearing Thursday and Harman will
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be in court for a scheduling hearing Friday.
exorcism case turns down plea deal, FLDS
members to testify at legislative hearing and
Cynthia Dalton’s charges date back to 2005 when members of the group were White supremacist set to be executed for
living in a Magna duplex. In an interview last year, Cynthia Dalton said her father 1994 murder
used religion as a justification for the sex acts, first with Harman and later with
Dalton himself. “And he’s like, ‘The Lord says, me and you need to have sex,’”
she recalled her father saying. “‘We need to have sex three times.’”

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preaching. Linda Dalton is now 41 years old and living in Grand Junction, Colo.
She said her brother coerced her into having sex with him in 2005 when she was 35 and he was 38.
In March, 2010 the Billings Gazette wrote that
Dalton said he grew up an active member of the LDS church. Some

years ago, he said, he started receiving spiritual promptings from the
Lord that Mormon church members had strayed from the church’s
founding principles. In 2004, he said, he received a revelation that he
should start a new church. At one time, his new church had as many as
50 members, he said.
He described a two-day fast that ended with a vision of Jesus Christ,

who visited him several times in the following days. It was during one of
these visits that he said he was told he was the Holy Ghost and the
father of Jesus Christ.
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‘Archangel Gabriel’ to be released from prison: The leader of Indonesia’s
Salamullah (God’s Kingdom of Eden) sect, Lia Aminudin (aka Lia Eden) will be
released from prison today. Eden says she is the reincarnation of the archangel
Gabriel and that she receives messages from God. She was jailed for blasphemy Follow Religion News Blog at Twitter
against Islam.
Japan: Security agency inspects 32 AUM Shinrikyo cult facilities in 2010: Japan’s Subscribe to Religion News Blog
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facilities belonging to the AUM Shinrikyo cult under a law designed to curb the
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murder, the government said Friday. At the facilities, photos of AUM founder
Shoko Asahara, 56, who is on death row, were still displayed and followers
chanted “It is our pleasure to die for the guru” in celebration of his birthday, it
said.
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God: For more than a decade
One year ago today: Dispute flares again
on every Saturday, the Branch Davidian Sabbath, Sheila Martin and Clive Doyle
have gotten together to pray and discuss the Bible. They affirm to each other that between lawyer and Scientology, US study
David Koresh was God in the flesh. sheds light on Africa's unique religious mix
Federal judge demands state judge appear over FLDS battle: A federal judge and Earth Day at 40: God goes green
threatened Thursday to send marshals to drag a state judge into his courtroom
over an order she issued that conflicted with his. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson Two years ago today: Religious insanity:
ordered 3rd District Judge Denise Lindberg to appear in his courtroom Friday to Taleban murders mixed-sect couple for trying
explain her decision asking the administrator of the Fundamentalist Church of
to elope, Former Sri Chinmoy follower details
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ property trust not to comply with a federal order
the cult leader's abusive behavior
giving the polygamous sect temporary control of the trust. See also: Utah
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persons case: Court documents show investigators think Sisk and Moses were
involved in the deaths of Jadon Higganbothan and Antoinetta McKoy. No murder
charges have been filed. Police say all four belonged to a small polygamist
religious group called the Black Hebrews. • Religion & Spirituality Books
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who broke away from the cult-like group NXIVM had her bankruptcy case
dismissed on Thursday by a federal judge who scolded her for inaccurately disclosing her assets. But by throwing out the bankruptcy,
the judge may have helped Bouchey in the short term to escape a series of legal headaches.
Coleman murder trial: Things get prickly during jury selection: Coleman, 34, faces three counts of first-degree murder for the
strangulation of his wife, Sheri, 31, and the couple’s sons, Garett, 11, and Gavin, 9. They were found in the bedrooms of their home at
2854 Robert Drive in Columbia on May 5, 2009. Police theorize that Coleman, a former Marine and personal bodyguard for televangelist
Joyce Meyer, killed his wife and sons so he could marry his lover, Florida waitress Tara Lintz, without fear of losing his job with the
ministry.
Over 400 Ahmadis ‘On Right Path,’ West Java Governor Says: More than 400 members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah have converted
to mainstream Islam since a ban on their activities was issued in West Java, officials claimed on Thursday. West Java Governor Ahmad
Heryawan said encouraging conversions was the main objective of the ban, which he ordered on March 3. The ban followed a series of
attacks against the minority sect by mainstream Muslims and hard-liners. The murderous Muslims attacked Ahmadis because they
believe Ahmadiyah to be an illegitimate form of Islam (According to the savage murderers Islam is a ‘religion of peace.’)
Pakistan’s blasphemy vigilantes kill exonerated man: Mohamed Imran had been accused, jailed, tried and cleared: if anything, society
owed him a debt as a man wrongfully accused. But his crime was blasphemy. He was meant to have said something derogatory about
the prophet Mohammed, so in Pakistan justice worked a little differently. Two weeks after he returned to his small patch of farmland on
the rustic outskirts of Islamabad, his alleged crime caught up with him. Two Muslim barbarians murdered him.
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National Day of Prayer upheld by 7th Circuit: A federal appeals court reversed April 14 a 2010 ruling that had invalidated the National
Day of Prayer. A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago struck down in a unanimous decision federal
judge Barbara Crabb’s opinion that a law establishing a day for the observance was unconstitutional. The appellate ruling came almost
one year to the day of Crabb’s controversial ruling.
Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
France Is Brave and Right to Ban the Burqa: France is brave and right to ban the burqa. There is no reason for a modern Western
country to honor what is, essentially, a political statement and an ethnic and misogynistic custom. Banning the burqa is not infringing
on religious freedom but is, rather, a principled blow against the Talibanesque and barbaric subordination of Muslim women on Western
soil.
Fight on Liturgy Divides Catholics: Despite all the really weighty issues Roman Catholics face, including the latest sexual abuse scandal
playing out in Philadelphia, the most passionate debate this year may well be whether the Nicene Creed should say “one in Being with”
or “consubstantial with.” That’s because the Vatican plans to introduce a new English-language Roman Missal, the prayer script we
Catholics use at Mass — and its awkward changes to prayers and the liturgy are raising a chorus of complaints from priests and the
laity. The tiresome practice of theological hairsplitting is still alive and well in the 21st century.
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John Cleese condemns “church teachings” in interview: Monty Python star Cleese blasted the Pope’s teachings on abortion and
homosexuality and claimed they “would not be recognised by Christ”. Cleese made his outburst in a BBC interview when he denied that
the ‘Life of Brian‘ film was anti-Christian. The actor says the movie was a blast at the way religious fanatics promote their own beliefs
rather than an attack on faith itself. “I’m personally fascinated by religion and spirituality and sometimes think spirituality is a bit of a
threat to religion because the organised churches are so into power and influence and indeed wealth. “And if there’s anything that Jesus
Christ teaches people, it’s not about power.”
What Is A Cult? Recognizing And Avoiding Unhealthy Groups: Perhaps it is more useful to discern what a religious movement is or
what a cult is by comparing its impact upon members’ lives: does it compliment or control? At their best, healthy religions and
organizations compliment rich, full lives by offering balance, community, comfort. At their worst, they lapse into vehicles demanding
control. Cults limit lives into narrow, claustrophobic existences whose singular purpose is the cult itself. By Jayanti Tamm, author of
Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult [Kindle edition | Buy a Kindle ]
Philippine priest in ancient battle with ‘demons’: A blood-curdling scream echoes through the Roman Catholic chapel in Manila as
Father Jose Francisco Syquia says a prayer of exorcism over a Satanic cult member believed to be possessed by the devil. The case is
among hundreds documented on video and kept by Syquia, who heads the Manila Archdiocese’s Office of Exorcism — the only one that
exists in the Catholic nation of 94 million people. “She would have levitated had she not been restrained,” Syquia said of the woman in
the video, portions of which were shown to AFP during a rare interview at his office in the basement of a seminary in Manila. Syquia
believes he is in the frontline of the battle between good and evil on earth. “There is a great dramatic increase of possessions right
now,” said the 44-year-old priest. “More and more the demons are gaining a foothold into this society.”
Were Nails from Caiaphas’ Tomb Used to Crucify Jesus?: Just in time for Easter, an Israeli television journalist has produced a pair of
nails he says may have been used to crucify Jesus Christ. “We’re not saying these are the nails,” says Simcha Jacobovici, holding aloft
a pair of smallish iron spikes with the tips hammered to one side. “We’re saying these could be the nails.”
New abortion laws show Christian Right’s continued power: So maybe the Christian Right isn’t so dead after all. In fact, the movement
that was supposed to have been eclipsed by the fiscally focused Tea Party in recent years and was said to be reeling from the loss of
leaders like Jerry Falwell is showing some pretty dramatic signs of life.
Sweat Lodge Prayers: A largely Christian community of Native North Americans in Quebec has banned a spiritual practice traditional to
their people, the Cree. The decision has disappointed some ministers in native communities in the United States and Canada. The Band
Council of Oujé-Bougoumou, a village of about 600 James Bay Cree, voted in October to dismantle a sweat lodge some residents had
constructed. The council decided that Oujé-Bougoumou’s Christian founding elders had not intended the community to partake in
“native spirituality or practices.” “The practice of the sweat lodge and its rituals are not restricted to merely medical [pursuit] of
healing, but [are] in essence a way to contact and communicate with the spirit world through shamanism,” the resolution declared.
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Mary Stinemetz, 64, could get a liver transplant, one that would be paid for
by Medicaid, at the University of Kansas Hospital.
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Neb., but Kansas is refusing to pay for the out-of-state procedure when a
transplant is readily available in Kansas.
That puts Stinemetz at the center of a constitutional controversy that pits One year ago today: Group wants evangelist
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Stinemetz is suing the Kansas Health Policy Authority, which administers the
state’s Medicaid program. She contends that the state is violating her First Two years ago today: Aryan Nations, a hate
Amendment rights to exercise her religion. She lost one round in her fight in group run by white supremacists, returns to
December in Graham County District Court. Idaho, Two Christians Acquitted of
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According to the paper the state contends that she didn’t provide any evidence that
her rights were infringed upon because coverage was denied.
“There is no medical necessity for the beneficiary to have a bloodless transplant
— a regular liver transplant is available in Kansas and would be considered
medically necessary,” the state said in denying coverage in early February 2010. • Gospel & Christian Music
“The beneficiary’s religious preference to have a bloodless liver transplant does
not meet medical necessity.”
Wayne Wallace, a physician advising the state, also warned of the ethical issues a surgeon would face if a patient elected to have
a bloodless transplant.
Although the surgical procedure between the two types of transplants is the same, the bloodless technique implies the surgeon
would be willing to accept a patient’s death, even if a transfusion might save the patient, Wallace said at March 2010 hearing.
However, Stinemetz said Jehovah’s Witnesses follow biblical directives to abstain from blood, pointing to passages in the books
of Acts, Genesis and Deuteronomy, according to court records.
Church doctrine leaves it to the discretion of members to accept certain blood fractions and donor organs.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Stinemetz’s behalf.
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The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is the organization behind Jehovah’s Witnesses.
It has claimed that it alone is qualified to explain the Bible — of which the organization has published its own version in order to make
the book supports the movement’s teachings instead of the other way around.
Theologically the organization is considered a cult of Christianity since it rejects or changes key doctrines of the Christian faith.
Many consider it to be sociologically a cult as well, due to the tight control the organization holds over its followers.
The claim that its followers are free to decided whether or not to accept blood transfusions is window dressing. Usually those who go
against the organization’s teachings of ‘God’s only organization’ are dis-fellowshipped and shunned.
Naturally, while the organization claims a special relationship with God it has been very inconsistent about its teachings.
A diverse groups of anonymous Jehovah’s Witnesses are calling on their organization to reform its policies on blood.
Meanwhile the Kansas City Star reports in a follow-up item that
A Kansas appeals court poked and prodded Wednesday, but kept returning to the same question.
What compelling reason did Kansas have for refusing to pay for a woman’s request — based on her religious faith — to undergo a
bloodless liver transplant that could be done only outside the state? [...]
“Don’t you have some type of compelling state interest to deny this, and what is that compelling interest?” Judge Stephen D. Hill
asked the state’s lawyer, Brian Vazquez.
Hill’s comments came during a nearly hourlong session of the Kansas Court of Appeals, which generally allots about 30 minutes
to hearings. [...]
Vazquez acknowledged there was little, if anything, in the court record to show a compelling state interest. However, he
contended that a 1990 Supreme Court decision from Oregon eliminated the need to show a compelling interest.
In that case, the court ruled that government could adopt laws that might burden someone’s religion as long as the law was
neutral and didn’t target a specific religious faith.
The court is expected to issue a ruling later.
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final say over state law as part of a long-running battle for control of a
communal land trust tied to Warren Jeffs’ polygamous church, the
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The ruling from U.S. District Judge Dee Benson could undo some six years of
decisions by a state judge. Remember These Stories?
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dispute the right of a federal judge to meddle with a state judge’s decision and to Muslim MasterCard due to launch soon, The
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and violated FLDS
members’ religious freedom rights. He ordered control of the UEP Trust
be returned to the FLDS Church. [...]
However, a judge in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court issued a ruling on
Monday insisting that she remained in charge of the UEP Trust. She also
directed the man she appointed to oversee the UEP, court-appointed
special fiduciary Bruce Wisan, to resist the federal judge’s ruling.
“The dispute that’s brewing between these two sovereigns, between these
two court systems, has embedded within it a state law question of some
significance, of some magnitude,” Utah Supreme Court Justice Tom Lee
said.
The UEP Trust controls most of the land in Hildale, Utah; Colorado City,
Ariz.; and Bountiful, British Columbia in Canada. It was taken over by the
state courts in 2005 over allegations that Warren Jeffs and other FLDS leaders mismanaged it, says FOX 13.
According to the Associated Press the Trust is valued at more than $114 million.
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AP says:
Under state control, the trust was stripped of its religious tenets and its class of beneficiaries was opened to former
church members.
Last year, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed an FLDS challenge to state intervention in the trust, saying the church had waited
too long to object to the state’s action, but the ruling did not address the constitutional rights of FLDS members.
The Utah Supreme Court will not issue an immediate ruling. The Utah and Arizona attorneys general have filed an appeal of the federal
judge’s decision to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.


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Aryan Nations recruiting again in northern Idaho
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The Aryan Nations has returned to Subscribe to Religion News Blog
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a recruitment campaign.
Coeur d’Alene resident Jerald O’Brien, who has a large swastika tattoo on his Remember These Stories?
scalp, is one of the leaders of the white supremacist group and said he expects
membership to grow because of the election of President Barack Obama. One year ago today: Moms and young
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Many residents of a north Coeur d’Alene subdivision awoke
Friday to find racist fliers on their lawns, distributed as
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“I saw Aryan Nations and put it in the trash,” said Garvin Jones, who lives in the • Gospel & Christian Music
neighborhood southwest of Atlas Road and Prairie Avenue. “What’s wrong with
these people? Give me a break. I bet if you went back in their family history, not one is 100 percent white.”
[...]
The Aryan Nations Web site lists Jerald O’Brien and Michael Lombard as the “pastors” who have taken over following longtime
leader Richard Butler’s death in September 2004.
[...]
The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations — which has fought the Aryan Nations for decades — quickly condemned
the flier distribution and offered its services to anyone threatened or harassed.
[...]
The Aryan Nations was effectively bankrupted on Sept. 7, 2000, when a Kootenai County jury returned a $6.3 million verdict
against the organization, its founder, Richard Butler, and three former members.
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The verdict in the civil trial found that Butler and his organization were guilty of gross negligence in appointing security guards
who carried out an assault against two people driving by their property.
O’Brien, however, said the “world headquarters” of the organization is now in Coeur d’Alene in a location that is “membership
privileged information only.” He did admit that he lives in a home on the east side of downtown Coeur d’Alene that regularly flies
two white supremacist flags.
[...]
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Quoting an older report for some background info:
In a 1999 report, the FBI said the goal of Aryan Nations was to forcibly take five states — Oregon, Idaho,
Wyoming, Washington and Montana — and form an Aryan homeland.
Butler’s undoing began in 1998, when Aryan Nations security guards chased a car they thought had fired a gun at them. It was
apparently a backfire or firecracker.
The guards fired repeatedly at the car, shooting out a tire and forcing it into a ditch. One of them grabbed the driver, local resident
Victoria Keenan, jabbed her ribs with a rifle butt and put a gun to her head.
Keenan and her son, Jason, sued Butler, arguing his organization had been negligent in its supervision of the guards. In 2000
they won a $6.3 million judgment. They were aided by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which called Butler the “elder statesman
of American hate.”
- Source / Full Story: Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler dies at age of 86, AP, September 8, 2004 — Summarized by Religion
News Blog
After the death of its leader, the hate group moved its headquarters to Alabama.
In March 2007, it was reported that FBI and local police were monitoring possible renewed activity by Aryan Nations in Idaho.
Meanwhile, Butler’s old hate compound has been transformed into a peace park.


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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (BosNewsLife)– Two Indian Christians of
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January and received 45-days of “pre-trial detention” on charges of attempted
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speaking from Riyadh in a telephone interview.
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The elder asked not to be identified as he is still involved in negotiating their
release and Saudi security forces have raided his church.
“We were crying when we met each other in the prison facility last week,” he said, his voice trembling. “They are forbidden to pray
or read the Bible. Our brothers’ head hair was shaved and they look very thin. They don’t receive enough food. Yohan is
coughing, perhaps because of Tuberculosis, but he is denied medical treatment. The world should know about their plight.”
OVERCROWDED JAIL
Saudi Arabia
The church official said the two young men can barely sleep in the overcrowded jail. “They
There is no religious freedom in this are the only known Christians there who are imprisoned for their faith. The other inmates are
Islamic kingdom criminals.”
Public non-Muslim worship is forbidden,
and conversion to Christianity – seen as
In India, Vara’s pastor, Ajay Kuma Jeldi, said earlier in published remarks that Vara had told
apostasy – is punishable by death.
him by telephone that he had been pressured in prison to convert to Islam, but had refused.
Most Christians are foreign workers; “If I have to die for my God, I will die for him here,” Vara reportedly said.
although they are allowed to worship
privately on their compounds, they
sometimes face difficulty. Vara and Yohan were detained in January when they organized a Bible study group in one of
the apartments where their 70-strong church of mainly Indian expat workers gathers, the
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elder speaking to BosNewsLife confirmed.
“Saudi security forces also confiscated Bibles and other christian literature as well as the
church’s sound installation and instruments, such as guitars, during the raid. They even broke furniture, suit cases, and painted
what I believe were Koran verses on the walls” of the apartment where the church met, he added.
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FAMILY CONCERNED
The elder said the two men’s “families back in India are very concerned about our brothers.”
Pentecostal church members are often referred to as “brothers” or “sisters” in reference to Biblical teaching that those who accept
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are children of God, the Heavenly Father.
The Indian embassy has not yet provided legal assistance and did not openly pressure Saudi authorities to release the two Indian
citizens, reportedly describing the case as an “internal religious affair.”
The church has not been able to hire a lawyer, the church elder told BosNewsLife. “Our congregation is made up of workers who
each have a small salary. There is simply no money to hire an expensive lawyer to defend out brothers in court.”
CHURCH CONTINUES
Despite the difficulties and threats of more arrests, the church elder said his congregation continues worshiping in different
locations, and even baptizes new believers. “We have to continue to praise the Lord, what else can we do? This is a lively church.
There is also an interest among people of other religions to attend our services.”
Rights groups say Saudi Arabia, a strict Islamic nation, has a long history of cracking down on Christians. In 2004, 28 Indian
workers were reportedly arrested for practicing Christianity. The charges were eventually dropped, but in 2010 brought up again
leading to the deportation of one worker, while another person was arrested, according to rights investigators.
In another case, 16 Indian workers were allegedly arrested in February 2008, and then released after three days. In 2010, eight
left the country of their own accord and three of the remaining eight were reportedly issued deportation orders and expelled.
A recent United States State Department report on religious freedom expressed concerns about the situation of religious
minorities in the country.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner said the public practice of non-Muslim
religions remains prohibited, and that the Saudi government has not acted on pledges to rid textbooks of religious incitement.
“…There still continues to be in the Saudi textbooks, references, very negative, stereotypical references to Christians, Jews and
others, which regard as offensive,” he told reporters following the presentation of the report in November.
Saudi authorities have denied human rights abuses and recently urged political activists not to repeat pro-democracy
demonstrations that have engulfed other Arabic nations.
The Middle East nation of over 26 million people is officially 100 percent Muslim, but as in other Arabic countries, there have been
reports of a growing interest in Christianity in Saudi Araba, where many foreigners are Christians.
In 2009, BosNewsLife already cited Netherlands-based Arabische Wereld Zending, or ‘Arabic World Mission,’ as saying that
Christians have set up an underground church in Mecca, viewed by Muslims as the “holiest city in Islam”, while tens of thousands
of other Saudi Christians are worshiping via the Internet.
- Saudi Arabia Jails House Church Christians Without Trial, Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, Apr. 10, 2011 — © BosNewsLife. Published
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here described as a “reverend,” and “this year’s World Food Prize laureate.” The Religion News Blog headlines by Email
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obvious: that lost in the necessary political and economic debates blighted by the
side-tracking but focal partisan and sub-partisan disputes on the issue is one set Sightings
of people. Biblical scholars in this “Judeo-” and “Christian” nation call them
“God’s people.” They are the poor, disabled, disadvantaged, undersheltered
and, yes, hungry, about whom some of the budget debates were supposed to Remember These Stories?
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Bittman and Beckmann discuss Isaiah 58, essential reading for believers and
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observed that one can look at something 999 times and then, on the thousandth
sighting, see something revelatory, as if for the first time. We are asked to do
such looking now. To bid each other to do so will sound embarrassingly pious, Need Anything From Amazon.com?
and yet. . . .
As Bittman tells it, he is fasting, or was, last Monday, when thousands of others
also fasted to draw notice to those Congressional budget proposals (H.R. 1)
which would “quite literally cause more people to starve to death, go to bed hungry or live more miserably than they are doing
now.” Adds Bittman: “And: The bill would increase defense spending.”
Bittman confessed to some skepticism about whether things work out the way Isaiah 58, reporting on God’s revelatory word,
suggests. That chapter also reflected God’s being bored by all of Israel’s fussing about how strenuous the people were about holy
fasting. The prophet—in my own loose translation—says, for God: “You think you are going to impress me by fasting, but all you
do is get hungry and thus get angry and then beat up on each other. Is that the fast you think I want?”
Also in elaborated but consistent paraphrase for the Bible-believers among us: “You can stamp ‘In God We Trust’ on all your
money, fight for particular prayers in public gatherings and schools, sing ‘God Bless America’ and all,” but if the people would not
feed the hungry, free the imprisoned, and take care of those in need, their fasting, they learned, was beside the point, if not futile
and wrong. The ancient prophet said this more elegantly and with an authority that columnists cannot command, but his words
should outrank other texts which are cherished by biblical literalists and their secular cousins during legislative and electoral
conflicts. Beckmann: “. . . deficit reduction isn’t as important as keeping people from starving: ‘We shouldn’t be reducing our
meager efforts for poor people in order to reduce the deficit. They didn’t get us into this, and starving them isn’t going to get us
out of it.”
Bittman does not expect God to intervene, but he still hears the moral punch of the biblical language. Disagree with Bittman and
Beckmann if they offend, one can suggest, but for the biblically-minded folk, proving that the two are wrong is hard to do. I hope
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both fasters savor their post-fasting food but stay on the cause. Those obsessed with budget-cutting will certainly stay on theirs.
Note: Isaiah 58 speaks wonderfully, not grimly, about the promise of what could follow moral action in the face of human need.
References
Mark Bittman, “Why We’re Fasting,” New York Times, March 29, 2011.
David Beckmann, “God, Hear Our Prayer,” Bread for the World, March 28, 2011.
- Fasting for the Poor, (Opinion) Martin E. Marty, Sightings, Apr. 4, 2011 — © Sightings, Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago
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KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 4 (Compass Direct News) – The chief
of a militant Hindu extremist group sought to disguise his
extortion and terror activities from behind bars by claiming he Subscribe to Religion News Blog
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Nepal, Religious Persecution
The revelation emerged when Nepal’s premier investigation agency foiled a plot
to explode a series of bombs devised by Ram Prasad Mainali, former chief of the
Hindu militant outfit Nepal Defence Army (NDA), in the capital city of Kathmandu.
Police on March 4 arrested six cohorts of Mainali carrying powerful “socket
bombs” – home-made, hand grenade-type weapons made from plumbing joints Two years ago today: Utah wasting tax-payer
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In an interview last year, Mainali had told Compass that his interaction with
Christians inside jail in Kathmandu’s Nakkhu area had led him to repent of his
deeds and read the Bible. Mainali was arrested on Sept. 5, 2009 for exploding a
bomb in a Catholic parish in Kathmandu, Our Lady of the Assumption, which
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others on May 23 of that year.
Prior to the Compass interview, Mainali had sent a handwritten letter from the prison to a monthly Christian newsmagazine in
Nepal, Hamro Ashish (Our Blessing), saying he regretted having attacked Christians.
A local Christian worker who had known Mainali said the church bomber used Christianity to evade police surveillance.
“I was disheartened when I recently learned that Mainali had threatened some pastors with violent attacks, demanding protection
money from them,” he told Compass on condition of anonymity.
The source said Mainali threatened him and pastors he knew by phone. He suspected that a fellow prisoner, Jeevan Rai Majhi,
previously considered a convert to Christianity, had given the pastors’ phone numbers to Mainali. Majhi, formerly a notorious
criminal, had allegedly accepted Christ inside the prison, and jail authorities made him the prison leader. He also led a Bible study
group in the prison.
“Some prisoners who attend the Bible study in the Nakkhu Jail told me that Mainali shared the extortion money with Majhi, which
aroused jealousy among other prisoners, who reported it to the jail authorities,” the source said.
Around 150 prisoners attend the Nakkhu Gospel Church inside the prison premises, though Majhi is no longer leading it. Both
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Mainali and Majhi were recently transferred, Mainali to the Dilli-Bazaar Jail and Majhi to the Mid-Nepal Central Jail.
Deputy Inspector General of Police and Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) Director Rajendra Singh Bhandari told The Kathmandu
Post that the arrest of Mainali’s men was a “tremendous achievement” that averted “mass casualties” in the capital.
“It seems that Mainali had filled the arrestees’ minds with dreams of earning quick bucks through terror,” the daily quoted another
investigation official as saying.
The Christian source said he still hoped for genuine repentance in Mainali and Majhi.
“Mainali and Majhi must have at least some knowledge of the Bible,” he said. “So I am still hopeful that they would reflect on who
God is and truly repent of their ways as they spend their time in prison cells incommunicado [prohibited from speaking with any
outsider].”
According to The Kathmandu Post, the CIB had been observing Mainali following complaints that he had demanded large sums of
money from businessmen and others.
“He had been making phone calls and sending demand letters to them,” the daily reported on March 4.
Compass requested an interview with Mainali at the Dilli-Bazaar Jail, which officials refused.
“We have orders not to allow Mainali to meet anyone,” said one official.
Mainali had earlier told Compass that he formed the NDA with the support of Hindu nationalists in India in 2007 to re-establish the
Hindu monarchy, which fell after a decade-long armed struggle by former Maoist guerrillas peaked in 2006, when all political
parties joined protests against King Gyanendra.
The NDA is also believed to be responsible for bombing mosques and killing Muslims and Christians, including the Rev. John
Prakash Moyalan, a Catholic priest who was principal of the Don Bosco educational institution in eastern Nepal, in June 2008.
While Christians in Nepal faced persecution at the hands of the Hindu monarchy until 2006, non-state actors have been attacking
them since the country began transitioning to a secular democracy.
“Several incidents of religiously incited violence directed at minority religions and their property have been recorded since the
signing of the peace accord [between the interim government and the Maoists in 2006],” a local Non-Governmental Organization,
Informal Sector Service Sector (INSEC), noted last year.
“Although moves have been made to promote religious tolerance and a climate of peace and cooperation, this area must
continuously be monitored,” stated an INSEC report, “Commitment versus Reality,” which mentioned attacks on Christians by
Mainali’s outfit.
Of the roughly 30 million people in Nepal, only .5 percent are Christian, and more than 80 percent are Hindu, according to the
2001 census. The actual number of Christians, however, is believed to be much higher.
- Nepal Church Bomber Faked Repentance, Vishal Arora, Compass Direct News, Apr. 4, 2011 — © Compass Direct News. Published
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Two Indian Christians of a thriving Pentecostal house church in Saudi
Arabia have been moved from pre-trial detention to a prison in the
Saudi capital Ryadh where they are “forbidden to pray or read the Bible”
and “suffer of a lack of food and medical attention.”
The two were initially detained in January and received 45-days of “pre-
trial detention” on charges of attempted proselytizing.
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CHrISTIAnITY • RNB'S RELIGIOn NEWS ROUnDUp :
Update: Pastor not ‘fired’ for not believing in hell
[Update] Turns out that the pastor of a rural United Methodist church was not ‘fired’
from his job after voicing his doubts that sinners live an eternity of torment.
It was initially reported that Reverend Chad Holtz was dismissed from Marrow’s
Chapel in Henderson, North Carolina, when he posted a note on his Facebook page
supporting a book written by prominent young evangelical pastor Rob Bell. But Holz
explains it “was less a firing and more a divorce.”
WEDnESDAY MARCH 16, 2011

CHrISTIAnITY • IrAn • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:
Five Iranian house church Christians were behind bars Wednesday,
March 15, after being sentenced to one year imprisonment on charges
of “crimes against the Islamic order” and there were reports that Iranian
authorities have been burning Bibles.
The attacks come amid wider reported pressure on groups deemed

dangerous by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government.
CHrISTIAnITY • HUMAn RIGHTS VIOLATIOnS • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:

Pakistani Christian Sentenced for ‘Blasphemy’ Dies in Prison; Murder
Suspected
Qamar David’s life had been threatened since he and a Muslim,
Munawar Ahmad, were accused of sending derogatory text messages
about Muhammad in June 2006, said David’s former lawyer, Pervaiz
Chaudhry.
David was convicted under Section 295-C under Pakistan’s widely

condemned blasphemy laws for derogatory remarks against Muhammad in a case
registered at Karachi’s Azizabad Police Station, with another case registered at
Saddar Police Station pending.

CHrISTIAnITY • MUSIc:
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“How Bob Dylan prayed the sinners prayer in my home and wrote his first
Christian album there”
Two-time Oscar winner, Al Kasha: Bob Dylan “came to the house every
week for six months. In fact he wrote the album, ‘Slow Train Coming’ in
in our house.
Bob was, at that time, going through a spiritual search and if you look
at his track record as a writer, he was always seeking after Jesus and he
finally realized that Jesus was his Savior.”

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Sightings: Hell’s Bell
Americans may have thought that cracks in the façade and framework of
evangelicalism would show up most visibly when serious evangelicals
argued whether Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee would be the better
presidential candidate.
But now we have a chance to see that other divisive issues among
evangelicals beg for attention. The topic? Hell, and a punishing God’s use thereof.
CHInA • CHrISTIAnITY • HUMAn RIGHTS VIOLATIOnS • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:

An ethnic minority house church leader remained detained in China’s
troubled northwestern Xinjiang region Sunday, March 6, after a court
rejected an appeal to review his 15 years prison sentence on charges of
revealing state secrets to overseas groups.
United Nations officials and local Christians have linked the sentence to
Pastor Alimujiang Yimiti’s Christian conversion, his leadership of a house church with
his wife Gulinuer and two sons, and apparent involvement in sharing reports of
religious persecution.
SATURDAY MARCH 5, 2011

CHrISTIAnITY • RNB'S RELIGIOn NEWS ROUnDUp • ROb BELL:
New York Times on the Rob Bell controversy
While sliding close to what critics consider the heresy of “universalism”
— that all humans will eventually be saved — Rob Bell never uses the
term in his book.

CHrISTIAnITY • RNB'S RELIGIOn NEWS ROUnDUp • ROb BELL:
Upcoming book by Rob Bell ignites debate over Universalism
Mars Hill pastor Rob Bell — one of the leaders in the supposedly
leaderless Emerging Church movement — has become the subject of a
heated online debate regarding his forthcoming book
“Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever
Lived.”
The discussion erupted on Twitter and many Christian blogs after Justin Taylor, vice
president of editorial at Crossway, published a blog post titled “Rob Bell:
Universalist?”
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2011

AfGHAnISTAn • CHrISTIAnITY • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:
Afghani Convert Musa Released; Another Christian Still in Prison
After intense diplomatic pressure last week, authorities released Afghani
Christian Said Musa, who had been in prison for nearly nine months on
charges of apostasy (leaving Islam), punishable by death under Islamic
law. Another convert, however, remains in prison.

Details of Musa’s release remained confidential in order to protect him

and his family, who still remain in danger, sources said.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2011

AfGHAnISTAn • CHrISTIAnITY • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:
Detained Afghanistan Christians Facing Death Penalty
Two Afghan Christians who were arrested for their conversion to
Christianity remain behind bars despite diplomatic efforts by the United
States to secure their release, a Christian rights group said Wednesday,
February 23.
International Christian Concern (ICC) said it had obtained a letter

smuggled out of Qasre Shahi prison in Mazar-e-Sharif, in which one Christian wrote
that he may receive the death penalty for apostasy.
CHrISTIAnITY • IrAn • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:

Threat of Prosecution Remains for Some Christians Freed in Iran
In December and January authorities arrested up to 120 believers after
Iranian religious and political figures acknowledged the existence of
home fellowships and condemned them as a threat to the state. Sources
estimate at least 62 of those arrested during late December and January
have been released, some on bail. A typical bail amount in Iran can
range between a few thousand dollars and the deed on a house.
Some of the Christians who were released reported they were subjected to solitary
confinement and harsh interrogation, according to a statement by Elam Ministries on
Feb. 4. The statement said some Christians held at Section 209 of Tehran’s notorious
Evin Prison suffered up to 34 days in solitary confinement.
WEDnESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2011

CHrISTIAnITY • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn:
Iran Detains Over 30 Christians; Others Released
At least over 30 Christians who were recently detained remained behind
bars in Iran Tuesday, February 22, but there were reports that scores of
other believers were released after being held by security forces in
several parts of the strict Islamic nation.
Rights activists say the wave of arrests and temporary detentions

appear to be part of the government’s alleged wider crackdown on minority
Christians and other non-Muslim religious groups.
WEDnESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2011

CHrISTIAnITY • RELIGIOn TrEnDS:
Mainline church membership decline continues – but more slowly
Growing churches continue to grow and declining churches continue to
decline, according to the National Council of Ch urches’ 2011 Yearbook
of American & Canadian Churches.
“The direction of membership (growth or decline) remains very stable,”

writes the Yearbook’s editor, the Rev. Dr. Eileen Lindner, in the newest
edition released this week. “That is, churches which have been increasing in
membership in recent years continue to grow and likewise, those churches which
have been declining in recent years continue to decline.”
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2011

CHrISTIAnITY • RELIGIOUS FrEEDOM:
Official Recognition Eludes Christian Groups in Bhutan
Bhutan officials have given assurances that freedom for Christians to
worship “within the cultural norms” of the tiny Buddhist nation in the
Himalayas will not be violated, but they remain ambiguous on whether

and when the miniscule community will obtain legal identity.
MOnDAY DECEmBER 20, 2010

CHrISTIAnITY • RNB'S RELIGIOn NEWS ROUnDUp :
The Digital Story of the Nativity
How the story of the birth of Jesus would be told in today’s digital world….
WEDnESDAY DECEmBER 8, 2010

CHrISTIAnITY • InTErfAITH • ISLAM :
German Protestant head says a European Islam needed for dialogue
A European form of Islam needs to develop before a meaningful
interfaith dialogue can take place on the continent, the new leader of
Germany’s 24 million Protestants has said.
“We are only at the beginning of a serious inter-religious discussion on a

theologically high level and that is because there are problems with
finding counterparts,” the Rev. Nikolaus Schneider says.
MOnDAY NOVEmBER 15, 2010

CHrISTIAnITY • ISLAM • RELIGIOUS PErSEcUTIOn • RNB'S RELIGIOn NEWS ROUnDUp :
Why Iraqi Christians Are Running Scared — in Sweden
With numerous attacks by Muslims against Iraq’s Christians in recent weeks —
including a Halloween day massacre in a Baghdad church, which left 52 dead — the
country’s religious minority fears for its survival within the boundaries of the
Middle Eastern nation. Yet, a long way from their native land, many Iraqi Christians
are also living in terror in a far more serene place: Stockholm.
Swedish immigration officials have been deporting Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on

flights about every three weeks, declaring that some of them have no legitimate
claim to political asylum in Sweden. That includes Iraqi Christians — a category
that does not automatically imply a risk of persecution, according to Swedish
guidelines.• See also: Iraq’s Christians Vow to Survive, With Muslim Help
WEDnESDAY NOVEmBER 10, 2010

CHrISTIAnITY :
Legal Status Foreseen for Christianity in Buddhist Bhutan
The authority that regulates religious organizations will discuss in its
next meeting – to be held by the end of December – how a Christian
organization can be registered to represent its community.
Thus far only Buddhist and Hindu organizations have been registered by
the authority, locally known as Chhoedey Lhentshog. As a result, only
these two communities have the right to openly practice their religion and build
places of worship.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 30, 2010

CHrISTIAnITY :
Brazil’s evangelical revolution sees miracle healers take centre stage
Brazil – and much of Latin America and the Caribbean — is in the midst
of what believers proudly call an “evangelical revolution”.
According to the IBGE, Brazil’s census board, the country’s Catholic

population fell from around 89% in 1980 to 74% in 2000, while its
Pentecostal flock grew from 3% to 10%. Brazilian churches are opening
branches from Buenos Aires to Port-au-Prince.
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