Wolrd Religion

Leaders of a controversial church have lost a bid to prove two of their members innocent of murder.

The ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court comes three years after Joseph and Sonya Smith were sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of their 8-year-old son. The child's death put the focus on how the Remnant Fellowship taught its members to discipline their children.

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Extradited to Texas two years after being indicted, polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be facing Texas prosecutors who haven't lost a criminal case against his followers since the 2008 raid of his Yearning for Zion ranch.

In the rural courts near the YFZ ranch where Jeffs is considered a prophet, his followers have been reliably convicted by juries that barely deliberate two hours. Also: Jeffs was a "problem inmate from day one."

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Australian Taxation Office lawyers today outlined "a very crude attempt to hide" millions of dollars received by the controversial Agape Ministries.

Rocco Leo, his confidantes and their multi-million dollar, two-state empire are embroiled in three lawsuits and a criminal prosecution.

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