Wolrd Religion

An elderly man who lost his wife to a religious cult has pleaded with the Woodland Trust not to take money from the group.

The man said the money had been donated to "buy credibility" for Ching Hai. He urged Coed Cadw to return the money, as President Clinton and the US Red Cross did with similar donations when they learned more about the organisation.

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The FBI has arrested Jacqueline LeBaron, the fugitive daughter of polygamist Ervil LeBaron, bringing what ex-members of the fundamentalist church hope is an end to several decades of bloodshed.

LeBaron is wanted by the FBI for a series of murders in the 1980s, carried out based on the "Book of the New Covenant." It was scriptures that her father wrote while in the Utah State Prison, where he was serving time for murder.

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