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A French sect leader wanted in his home country over kidnapping, torture and extortion charges will be extradited from Malta, after a case at the Constitutional Court was thrown out on Friday morning.

Alain Schmitt headed the Minh Vacma sect.

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Most young adults today don't pray, don't worship and don't read the Bible, a major survey by a Christian research firm shows.

Among the 65% who call themselves Christian, "many are either mushy Christians or Christians in name only," Rainer says. "Most are just indifferent. The more precisely you try to measure their Christianity, the fewer you find committed to the faith."

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It's estimated that more than a thousand young men and women -- mostly men -- have escaped or been thrown out of the community known as "The Crick," the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., dominated by the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints sect.

Getting those young adults to talk about their lives in and out of "The Crick" was difficult, say the filmmakers who have profiled some of those exiled teens for the documentary "Sons of Perdition."

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