Aa Salt Lake City-based nonprofit for people leaving polygamous groups held a fundraiser Friday.

The organization has seen its numbers grow significantly in the past year as dozens of people have been excommunicated from the state's largest polygamous sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints led by Warren Jeffs

 

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Winston Blackmore may have finally met his match: the taxwomen -- whom he is facing in a landmark Tax Court trial.

Also on his case: Canadian author and columnist Daphne Branham.

 

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Canadian polygamist Winston Blackmore revealed in a Tax Court he was compelled to pay money to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to prepare for the end of world as prophecied by the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs.

To date at least 15 different deadlines set by Jeffs have gone and gone.

 

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A man accused of killing a teenage boy he thought was a witch cut the hair of a young woman to "release the witchcraft", the Old Bailey has heard.

 

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God wants Warren Jeffs and other FLDS members released from prison.

The cult leader -- sentenced last August to life plus 20 years in prison for charges resulting from his 'spiritual marriages' to two teenaged girls -- says so in a slew of revelations, some of which have been published in newspaper ads throughout the US and Canada.

 

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There are 'secret' plans to build a giant replica of the Rio de Janeiro statue Christ the Redeemer near the summit of Primrose Hill in London to promote the 2016 Olympics.

The project, funded by the Brazilian government, has already divided opinion in the celebrity neighbourhood, amid fears it will ruin the view.

 

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The current issue of Skeptic Magazine features a cover article titled, "The Decline and (Probable) Fall of the Scientology Empire!"

Scientology watcher Tony Ortega says for those who have wanted a compact overview of where Scientology has been and where it is going, this is a handy guide.

 

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The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense subcommittee on Foreign Policy urged the Israeli government Tuesday to garner support from Evangelical Christians around the world, and to strengthen its connection to those outside of the US.

 

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Violence inflicted on a teenager accused of being a witch was "wild" and "completely feral", a witchcraft expert has told the Old Bailey.

Kristy Bamu, 15, drowned in a bath in his sister's east London flat after he was was beaten and tortured in 2010.

 

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