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...children and mostly women who had been strangled and hacked to death. Officials were still trying to determine whether cult leader Joseph Kibwetere, 68, died in the blaze or escaped. The onetime devout Roman Catholic teacher helped create the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God sect 10 years ago, after claiming he had been told by the Virgin Mary that the world would soon end. In the mid-1990s, he established a base in remote Kanungu. Using money provided by followers, who commonly sold their homes and possessions upon joining, and funds from groups and individuals...
...that if you tried to argue with them, they kept quiet. You ended up talking around like a mad person." Muteguya did manage to stop his relatives from selling the small family farm and late last year tried again to persuade his 16-year-old sister to leave the sect. "She came home to the village a few times, and I think she had given up because my mother had been transferred to a different place. But they knew our home, and they would come and take her by force." That was around the time Kibwetere announced that the world...
...while the new African churches may attract growing numbers of followers, mainstream churches question the depth of faith in the converted, as well as the commitment of the new churches to their flock. Like the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments sect, many of the new churches are built around charismatic and exploitative leaders and often fade once those leaders leave...
...most engageable boys and girls spread venereal disease: fast. Gladwell plays Connector in the world of ideas. He links the company that makes Gore-Tex fabric, and which starts a new plant every time an old one has more than roughly 150 workers, with the Hutterites, the religious sect that splits off a new community every time an existing one approaches the same number. This would be a "So what?" coincidence if he didn't also connect both of them to an argument by a British anthropologist that 150 is the maximum number of people whom anyone can really know...
...Karmapa's flight caps a year in which the authorities in Beijing are facing growing discontent from religious believers of varied stripe. Besides the challenge represented by the widespread Falun Gong sect, which was banned amid national protests in the summer, Beijing has faced continued resistance from Islamic separatists in its westernmost provinces, and earlier this week China's leadership set a collision course with the pope by engineering the appointment of three officially approved bishops to the Chinese Catholic Church over the Vatican's objections. The Karmapa's defection may be a blow to Chinese efforts to legitimize...