Wolrd Religion

A couple from Carlton, WA pleaded not guilty today to charges of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son, Zachary Swezey.

Police say Zachary died because his parents failed to call for medical assistance, and relied on prayer instead.

 

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Tensions remain high in an Egyptian village where as many as 5,000 mostly Salafi Muslims went on a rampage over a false rumor that a church was holding a girl against her will in order to convert her back to Christianity.

The 14-year-old girl's father, an ethnic Copt who converted to Islam, had stirred them up on the mistaken notions that his daughter had converted to Islam and that Christians had kidnapped her.

 

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An inmate who murdered jailed cult leader Roch Thériault in February, 2011, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Thériault was in prison for killing his wife by disembowelling her, and for chopping off the right arm of another wife with a chainsaw.

 

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