The leaders belonged to a tough, power-hungry religious sect based in Algeria.
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Top positions in Lebanon are allocated by religious sect in a delicate balancing act.
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He has also represented practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious sect banned in China.
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The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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The aftermath of clashes between police and members of a cultish religious sect in Mathura, India.
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We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone.
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The Yazidi are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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Some think I must be slightly weird, perhaps part of some strange religious sect — or pregnant.
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While to her it's simply her community, outsiders often consider Jehovah's Witnesses close to a religious sect.
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Throughout its history, the Brotherhood has been resolutely Sunni, the dominant religious sect in the Middle East.
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His religious sect, which he called The Work, operated with impunity for years under his strict control.
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His multinational religious sect attracted young Japanese elite who had grown disenchanted with the country's material prosperity.
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There a heavy-handed crackdown helped transform a radical religious sect into one of Africa's deadliest terror groups.
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Insiders say the celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapse.
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Much of the epidemic in South Korea, for instance, was uniquely driven by transmission within a religious sect.
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Lebanon is governed according to a sectarian political system that parcels out state positions according to religious sect.
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In the mid-1970s, reports of a fanatical religious sect known as The Move began to reach the mainstream.
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Their crime, say prosecutors, was to have bankrolled the Gulen movement, a religious sect accused of masterminding the coup.
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For decades, Green and her husband, James Green, reigned over the New Mexico-based religious sect they co-founded.
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The Druze, a religious sect spread throughout Israel, Lebanon and Syria, make up a subset of Israel's Arab population.
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Georgi's father, Soslan, had helped found a pacifist religious sect in North Ossetia, a Russian province that borders Georgia.
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Here, feuding among leaders of the Hoa Hao, the region's largest religious sect, left followers free to vote their conscience.
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The beatings inside the Word of Life Christian Church have provoked suspicion that the religious sect is actually a destructive cult.
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Soon pulled under the harsh scrutiny of a police investigation, the little-known religious sect was revealed as a dangerous cult.
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Insiders told Business Insider that a celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapse.
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The Yazidi, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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Lea and Knut are members of a harsh religious sect that promises an afterlife of fire and brimstone for sinners like Hansen.
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More than half were among members of a secretive religious sect, the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, and their relatives and other contacts.
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The Yazidis, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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When my grandmother died, in 1985, Jagu joined a religious sect in Delhi and disappeared, until his death, a dozen years later.
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Health authorities began testing more than 210,000 members of a religious sect at the center of South Korea's epidemic for coronavirus on Thursday.
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A few years later, the Waco siege standoff between law enforcement and a Texas religious sect would sear itself into the country's consciousness.
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Nusayriyyah is the term used by the Islamic State for the Alawite religious sect to which President Bashar al-Assad of Syria belongs.
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Health authorities began testing more than 603,000 members of a religious sect at the center of South Korea's epidemic for coronavirus on Thursday.
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He also challenged Janet Reno, the attorney general, over the government's raid on the Branch Davidians religious sect at its compound in Waco, Tex.
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Though the women, separated by geography and religious sect, expressed the desire to be allies, such connection was rendered impossible by their trusted advisors.
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The first season of this drama about the members of a reclusive religious sect that's just a little cultlike was slow to get going.
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Shafiq, the Attars and Nagarwala are all members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a religious sect of Islam, said Shafiq's attorney, Victoria Burton-Harris.
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The village of Hader is populated by members of the Druze, a minority religious sect present in Syria, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon.
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Barrett's religious sect believes that men are heads of households and women "handmaids" who are supposed to defer to patriarchal authority in all things.
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Choi's late father, Choi Tae-min, headed a now-defunct religious sect and was also close to Park during and after her father's presidency.
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In the wisdom of a small, furniture-obsessed religious sect founded in the 18th century, we may find a way to start moving forward.
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As of Tuesday, crowds still gathered around the shrine of Fatima Masumeh, a revered figure in Shia Islam, the religious sect of most Iranians.
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The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and who speak one of the Kurdish languages.
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For decades, Deborah and her husband, James, reigned over the New Mexico-based religious sect the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, which they co-founded.
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The leader of the religious sect the Sparrows — and the recently appointed High Septon of King's Landing — has to deal with an angry Jaime Lannister.
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For decades, New Mexico authorities were suspicious of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps but had no legal reason to investigate the militant religious sect.
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Just as the religious sect rejected ornate decoration in favor of simple designs, so he does too, mixing modern, industrial manufacturing techniques with craft skills.
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Then the fighting came, and Latakia, an area dominated by President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority religious sect, sent thousands of young men to battle.
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According to the TFN website, they are a watchdog on the far-right religious sect, and have been "instrumental" in blocking extremist measures from becoming law.
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CRANBOOK, British Columbia – A special prosecutor is recommending jail time for two leaders of a religious sect in British Columbia who were found guilty of polygamy.
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It makes it hard for newcomers running secular campaigns to compete with incumbent candidates, who already have a strong support base from their own religious sect.
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Today, there is no sign of the religious sect Mr. Choi once operated, and Ms. Park and the Chois have denied practicing cultlike or shamanistic rituals.
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More than half of the country's 556 cases are among members of a secretive religious sect, the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, and their relatives or contacts.
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Pakistan's English-language daily, Dawn, reported that the film's "content undermines Islam, and a specific religious sect, (while also) portraying Muslims as criminals, wanted persons and terrorists".
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That message, from a boy being held captive, leads Morck and Assad (Fares Fares) to a reclusive religious sect that harbors a serial killer (Pal Sverre Hagen).
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David Koresh was one of the most well-known cult leaders of the 20th century, amassing hundreds of followers as the leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect.
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She wandered around the pastoral landscape and through the 303th-century Round Stone Barn and learned about the industrious lifestyle of the religious sect that had lived there.
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Of course, one of the things that David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect, was known for was his habit of sexually appropriating other members' wives.
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But violence has increased there in recent months, including clashes in December between another religious sect and security forces in the northwest that killed at least 18 people.
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Much Lebanese civil law, including personal status matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance, is applied according to religious sect and in some cases treats women differently to men.
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Thousands of members of the Yazidi religious sect in Iraq have been killed by ISIS fighters, activists say, starting with an attack on them in 2014 in Sinjar, Iraq.
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Not long after she empowered a religious sect, the Sparrows, in order to persecute Margaery, she herself was locked up for once seducing her twit of a cousin, Lancel.
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He explained, gesturing to the curled pages in his hand, that an article had just been published declaring Mormonism to be the fastest growing religious sect in American history.
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The Kurds have advocated on behalf of Yazidis, a religious sect that has faced killings, sexual slavery and other crimes at the hands of the jihadist group since 2014.
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It's unclear why CAG accounts have mixed political messaging into their activity, but this is likely why an obscure Chinese religious sect was reported to Twitter during the Israeli election.
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It begins as an account of the founding of a crackpot religious sect named for an Italian-American coal miner who miraculously survives a mine disaster that kills 98 others.
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It brought to mind George Baxter's prints of the cosmos that were specially made for the religious sect, the Muggletonians, of which the poet-artist William Blake was a member.
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And the abrupt postscript of a conclusion, which refers to the adult Hildegard's rejection of a religious sect known as the Cathari, will make no sense whatsoever to most theatergoers.
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The FLDS is a religious sect that broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, over the practice of polygamy.
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Numbering about 400,000 people, Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and are considered devil-worshippers by the hardline Sunni Islamist insurgents.
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" In their History of Women's Suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony single out Spiritualism as "The only religious sect in the world…that has recognized the equality of woman.
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Lykova was raised on the family's homestead in the forest — about 90 miles from the nearest town — under the strict traditions of the Old Believers religious sect of Russian Orthodox Christianity.
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Thousands of captured men were killed in what a United Nations commission called a genocide against the Yazidis, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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This 14th-century book from Damascus contains two complete homilies and a partial one relating to the founding of principles of the Samaritans, the longest-lived religious sect in Jewish history.
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This week, an Indonesian court sentenced him to a five-year prison term, and gave two other leading figures of Milah Abraham, the religious sect he established, prison terms as well.
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Two former leaders of a fundamentalist religious sect in Canada were sentenced this week to house arrest and probation following their nearly unprecedented convictions on polygamy charges, according to multiple news outlets.
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After a 1986 double-murder, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh was at risk of losing its good name among city leaders, who saw the religious sect as champions for the poor.
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Already in the late 18th century, members of the Shaker religious sect used special vises to craft the forerunners of our current flat straight-edged brooms — in the interest of godly cleanliness.
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Many of the new cases have been traced to … a regional branch of a fringe religious sect named Shincheonji Church of God in the southern city of Daegu, according to the KCDC.
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Choi's late father, Choi Tae-min, headed a now-defunct religious sect and was close to Park during and after the presidency of her father, Park Chung-hee, who was assassinated in 1979.
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The second-largest source of pro-Donald Trump Facebook ads is The Epoch Times, a non-profit publication that's tied to a Chinese religious sect named Falun Gong, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
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The church has protested what it called "scapegoating" by South Koreans eager to discredit what had been the fastest-growing religious sect in the country, as other big churches worry about declining membership.
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Outside of the Joint List, it is unlikely any Arab candidate — aside from members of the Druze religious sect, who are viewed more approvingly by Jewish Israelis — will win a seat in Parliament.
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Ms. Choi's father was the leader of a religious sect and a mentor to Ms. Park, and many South Koreans have come to believe that Ms. Choi also wields influence over the president.
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Over 450 of those Daegu residents have been found to be members of the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, a fringe religious sect that belongs to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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He had been representing activists in Saudi Arabia's eastern province of Qatif, where predominantly Shia protesters have, in recent years, demonstrated against perceived discrimination against their religious sect in the Sunni-ruled country.
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Dewilde renders the jihadists as pitiless, Kalashnikov-firing skeletons in order to express his sentiment that the killers do not belong to a specific human race or religious sect, but are fanatic madness itself.
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The announcement comes after a Reuters investigation revealed in December that China's ruling Communist Party backs the Buddhist religious sect behind the protests that have confronted the Dalai Lama in almost every country he visits.
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A group of 33 followers of Falun Gong, a religious sect banned in China, flew from Taiwan to Hong Kong on Saturday to join the march but were refused entry to Hong Kong, RTHK reported.
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South Korean officials will investigate the leaders of a religious sect that is at the center of the outbreak, saying they hid the names of some church members, slowing the country's response to the outbreak.
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Pillar of Fire gained considerable fame in the first decades of the 20th century, in part because of the oddity of a woman running a religious sect years before women had the right to vote.
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The sixth child and first son in a family of 13 kids, Abby, like all the males in her community, wore the dark clothes and distinctive fur hat of her religious sect, and spoke only Yiddish.
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Ms. Choi, 60, is a daughter of Choi Tae-min, the founder of an obscure religious sect who befriended Ms. Park in the 1970s, when her father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee, was in power.
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Hundreds of security forces marched through a northern Indian town on Saturday to maintain calm after supporters of a quasi-religious sect leader protested his rape conviction with violence that left at least 30 people dead.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday killed at least eight members of a separatist religious sect, local activists said, escalating tensions in a normally peaceful part of a conflict-ravaged country.
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One person from the original church at the freedom festival likened Pastor Moon's teachings to those espoused by the Branch Davidians, the religious sect at the center of the Waco Siege in 1993 that left dozens dead.
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It's rooted in the eccentric wisdom of a small, furniture-obsessed religious sect founded in the 18th century that has all but disappeared, apart from its immortalization in a Ken Burns documentary and prominence in museum collections.
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Public outrage — initially aimed at influence by Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of a religious sect leader — has turned to broader concerns about the power of the presidency and the influence of family-controlled conglomerates like Samsung.
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The film is centered around a young boy with special powers, played by Jaeden Lieberher, and his father, portrayed by Michael Shannon, who is trying to protect him from a religious sect and a government task force.
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"We know these people, this religious sect," said Metin Feyzioglu, the head of Turkey's bar association and a member of Turkey's main secular party, who explained that he had long believed the Gulenists had stocked the country's judiciary.
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In addition, Ms. Choi's background — her father, who was also close to Ms. Park, led a fringe religious sect — has led many South Koreans to conclude that Ms. Choi wielded a sort of cultlike control over the president.
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ALGIERS, April 28 (Reuters) - Algeria's government has rejected accusations from rights groups that it persecuted the Ahmadiyah religious sect during a recent spate of arrests, saying those detained were targeted for breaking the law not for their beliefs.
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Often made from found wood — carpentry tools alternate with wooden relica — those works are painted entirely black or white so their minutiae coalesce and, fully integrated, the objects ascend like postindustrial totems or statuary for a bygone religious sect.
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LONDON — A Turkish court sentenced 24 journalists to prison on Friday, ruling that they were linked to a religious sect that the government calls a terrorist group and that has been blamed for a failed coup attempt in 2016.
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Ms. Choi's father, Choi Tae-min, the founder of an obscure religious sect, was a spiritual adviser to Ms. Park's father, the South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee, and to Ms. Park after her mother was assassinated in 1974.
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Deborah and James Green, the disgraced husband-and-wife who once reigned over the New Mexico-based religious sect Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, have been behind bars for nearly a year awaiting trial on kidnapping, obstruction and child abuse charges.
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KINSHASA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Four members of a separatist religious sect in Democratic Republic of Congo were shot dead at the home of its leader Ne Muanda Nsemi during a police assault, a BDK official and a witness said on Tuesday.
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But the weirder aspects of her career — like her connection to a secretive and controversial religious sect and her views on the Syrian civil war and willingness to meet with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad — have fueled skepticism of her motives.
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But, the number of confirmed infections in South Korea is likely to jump dramatically in the coming days, as medical officials begin testing about 210,000 followers of the Shincheonji religious sect, which is at the epicenter of South Korea's outbreak.
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Jessop is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a religious sect that broke from the Mormon Church — and notes that much of his negative sentiment toward government stems from institutional efforts to seize the church's land.
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The matriarch of a small religious sect that former members insist is a cult will spend the next two years in jail for her role in the prolonged, deadly beatings of two teenage brothers who tried to leave the group, PEOPLE confirms.
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Two relatives of the Mormon family who were killed in Monday's ambush murders were killed by drug lords 2102 years ago, as part of a pattern of tension between the religious sect and the cartels in the area, according to multiple family members.
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Nah. When they find themselves taken in by a Shaker-like religious sect, led by a blind lay preacher (Max Baker, hilarious), Jim is quick to point out the errors of his host's altruistic ways, in a lacerating, crockery-smashing dinner scene.
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In October 2015, the Word of Life Christian Church — a small, reclusive religious sect in Chadwicks, New York — was thrust into the national spotlight after police arrested nine congregants for their roles in the hours-long beatings of two teenage brothers, killing one of them.
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KINSHASA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo launched an assault on the residence of the leader of a separatist religious sect in Kinshasa early on Tuesday morning, and fired live ammunition and teargas at his supporters, a Reuters witness said.
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Though he was from a poor Catholic family and she from a rich Jewish one, the couple would go on to form what Mr. Weber described as a "two-person religious sect," each showing infinite dedication to the other, and neither pursuing fame and fortune.
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It has no truck with people like Mr Li, who has not only represented the weak and dispossessed, such as farmers thrown off their land, but also people whose beliefs the party finds threatening: house-church Christians and followers of Falun Gong, a banned religious sect.
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MEXICO CITY — The bodies of six children and a pregnant woman were found in a freshly dug grave in a remote, predominantly indigenous community on the Caribbean coast of Panama, possibly the sacrificial victims of a ritual performed by a religious sect, the Panamanian authorities said Thursday.
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Ms. Park has been accused of allowing a shadowy confidante, the daughter of a religious sect leader, to exercise remarkable influence on matters ranging from choosing top government officials to her wardrobe, and of helping her extort tens of millions of dollars from South Korean companies.
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The appointment of Mark Askerlund as town marshal — announced Thursday night in a joint news release from Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona — is designed to help bring fairness to a department that a jury found had discriminated against people who aren&apost members of the dominant religious sect.
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While the latter imagines a not-so-distant dystopian future in which a religious sect has reduced women to full-time breeders, the former is a deep dive into the true story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a woman accused of killing two people in nineteenth century Canada.
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"Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby," Soave wrote.
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A Weinstein Co lender wants the private equity firm that bought the bankrupt film studio's assets to pay back a $13.6 million loan before laying claim to the rights to "Waco," a TV mini-series based on the 1993 standoff and shootout in Texas between federal agents and a religious sect.
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Taylor Kitsch stars as David Koresh, a Texan with apocalyptic Christian views who led a group of Branch Davidians into a standoff with the F.B.I. Michael Shannon, fresh off a terrifying turn in the Oscar-nominated "The Shape of Water," plays the agent leading the charge against the religious sect.
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"It was this deep, gut-felt misgiving of remaining in the group, remaining in the cult," Lyford — who defected from the alien-obsessed religious sect when he was 39 — recounts ahead of the next episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults, which airs on Investigation Discovery on Monday, June 17, at 9 p.m.
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They are the Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, or the Free India Legal Ideas Revolutionary Protesters, a cultish religious sect that made international headlines recently after police ousted 22002,21 members from a large public park they had been occupying in the town of Mathura in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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They are the Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, or the Free India Legal Ideas Revolutionary Protesters, a cultish religious sect that made international headlines recently after police ousted 3,000 members from a large public park they had been occupying in the town of Mathura in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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See more: The Kabbalah Connection: Insiders say a celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapseThe source who provided the video is not authorized to speak to the media but said the remarks were so standard for the unconventional founder that staff did not react.
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"When I joined Bloomberg Financial Markets, I wondered if I had inadvertently joined a religious sect, such was the dedication of the employees to its founder, and their enthusiasm for the company," a former executive named Elizabeth DeMarse, appearing as E. DeM, wrote in "The Portable Bloomberg," a book workers gifted to the media mogul.
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" In Reason, a libertarian news outlet, Robby Soave argued that "far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby.
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The scrolls are of immense significance for the light they shed on early Judaism and Christianity: they contain many previously unknown texts written by and describing a religious sect living at Qumran, as well as the earliest surviving copies (some in fragments, some largely complete) of every book of the Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament.
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Neumann's exitThe Kabbalah Connection: Insiders say a celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapseSex, tequila, and a tiger: Employees inside Adam Neumann's WeWork talk about the nonstop party to attain a $100 billion dream and the messy reality that tanked itGovernance sank WeWork from the start, a VC and Stanford lecturer says.
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