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- Former Muslim receiving death threats
- Tony Alamo's enforcer to be featured on America's Most Wanted
- Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart recounts rape ordeal
- The resurrection of pastor Ted Haggard
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Benny Hinn, from Texas, who draws large crowds to his Pentecostal revival rallies, was turned back at Stansted airport under new rules on visiting ministers of religion.
A Border Agency spokesman said: "Under the UK's tough new points-based system, religious workers must obtain a valid certificate of sponsorship prior to arriving in the UK. These rules are designed to make sure that a legitimate sponsor is linked to each application to enter the UK for work purposes.
Although federal prosecutors will not pursue charges in connection to alleged threats against residents by a secretive group near Shawano, Wisconsin, no one has given those named on the "implied threat" list the all clear.
Meanwhile the groups is is no longer under the protection of Federal Bankruptcy Court. [video]
Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions.
One caller offered Husibi's young Muslim wife $10,000 to leave him and return to her native Syria, he said.
When Tony Alamo was arrested last year, his enforcer -- John Erwin Kolbeck -- fled and hasn't been seen since.
The television show America's Most Wanted is in Fort Smith, Arkansas to take the story to a national level in hopes of finding him. [video]
The American student Elizabeth Smart has, for the first time, described her nine-month kidnap ordeal after being snatched by a stranger from her bedroom in Salt Lake City seven years ago.
Asked by a prosecutor to describe Brian David Mitchell, the self-described prophet accused of holding her captive for nine months, Ms Smart replied: "Evil, wicked, manipulative, stinky, slimy, greedy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."
According to the terms of an agreement he signed with his former church, Ted Haggard was not only banished from New Life but also — in a provision more typical of TV westerns and medieval decrees — forbidden from ever returning to the state of Colorado. As chronicled in The Trials of Ted Haggard, an HBO documentary that aired last January, the Haggards moved through a series of temporary lodgings as the pastor-turned-insurance-salesman roamed Phoenix neighborhoods, growing to resemble the Willy Loman character in Death of a Salesman.
So virtually no one expected to find Haggard and his family back in their comfortable Colorado Springs home, less than a mile from the mega-church that started nearly 25 years ago as a basement gathering of worshippers. Gayle, Ted's wife for the last 30 years, has written a book called Why I Stayed, which is slated for January release by Christian publisher Tyndale House. Ted, meanwhile, has begun speaking at churches around the country and recently posted to the Internet that he's "motivated for the first time in 2.5 years to re-enter full-time ministry."
The constitutionally guaranteed right to religious freedom didn't give Tony Alamo the right to order beatings, force fasts and falsely imprison, according to a federal judge's ruling Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by two men who claim to have been beaten as children at Alamo's bidding.
"The principle of religious liberty does not give one the liberty to physically attack others; when a threat to society's or another individual's safety appears, the power of the state to prevent or punish is obvious," said a decision from U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes.
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