Wolrd Religion

Missing members of a break-off religious group, who were reported missing by their families Saturday, have been found alive and well at a park in Palmdale.

The group of El Salvadoran immigrants had left letters saying they were anticipating some apocalyptic event, and would soon see Jesus and their dead relatives in heaven.

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Although most of Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority are Muslims, they have generally been secular.

But experts are now seeing an increasing radicalization in pockets of the country's Islamic community, particularly after armed groups from the ethnic Albanian minority, which forms a quarter of the population of 2.1 million, fought a brief war against Macedonian government forces in 2001.

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5 adults and 9 children have been reported missing by their families, and officials believe the group may have planned a mass suicide related to a cult-like church.

The group, led by Reyna Marisol Chicas of Palmdale, California, reportedly left behind evidence indicating they were anticipating the rapture or some catastrophic event, including notes saying they were "going to meet Jesus and deceased family members."

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