Dorchester Community News Sean Cahill May 10, 1996 The Bible-based cult which runs the popular Common Ground restaurant in Lower Mills has in recent weeks leafletted several Dorchester neighborhoods with virulently anti-gay literature, which could easily be construed as encouraging violence against lesbians, gays and transgender residents. The cult, whose members dress in old fashioned…
The Winnipeg Sun Mike McIntyre April 11, 1996 Police search for kids actually ‘witch-hunt’ Angry members of a local religious cult say there were ulterior motives behind raids more than 70 police officers conducted yesterday in a search for two kidnapped kids. Cops hit four homes and two businesses just before 6 a.m. looking for…
Cultists protest raid The Winnipeg Sun Mike McIntyre April 11, 1996 Police search for kids actually ‘witch-hunt’ Angry members of a local religious cult say there were ulterior motives behind raids more than 70 police officers conducted yesterday in a search for two kidnapped kids. Cops hit four homes and two businesses just before 6…
Letter to Community Member, After reading the letters of Obadiah to Roger and Joellen Griffin, I can’t help but express my disappointment with the narrow minded judgments based on flawed (at best) teachings of Yoneq concerning those who leave the Community. Why didn’t you also publish the letters that Roger and Joellen wrote to you? …
Copied from Twelve Tribes-ex.com, original publication date sometime after 1984 This is a place where reality wobbles like a table with one short leg. Here, some say Walt Disney characters are evil and the world is satanic. Here – in the name of God children are often beaten, denied medical care, held out of school…
Source: Who are the Twelve Tribes? A.K.A. the Twelve Tribes Commonwealth of Israel The following are some of the beliefs and practices of a group of believers in Jesus, whom they call by His Hebrew name Yahshua. This group began in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1973. They live and work together as a family, and they…
The Montreal Gazette/February 15, 1994 By Maria Tratt Judy Seymour says the two years spent searching for her 11-year-old son have been the most painful of her life. “I’m exhausted,” the Montreal woman said yesterday, one day after being reunited with Michael. “I’ve spent the last 23 months crying myself to sleep. At times I…
Canadian lived with religious group in SC Santa Cruz County Sentinel/February 4, 1994 By Steve Perez Santa Cruz–A Canadian man suspected of taking his son from the child’s mother and bringing him to a religious community was arrested by federal agents Thursday morning at one of the group’s homes in Santa Cruz. His 11-year-old son…
The Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Sherri Jackson 1993 A Berwick man was sentenced to five months in jail for ignoring a court order that allowed his former common-law wife access to their son Michael. Edward Frank Dawson, 40, a member of the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult, seemed stunned by the sentence, handed down by…
September 1993 The state seeks to have Eugene Hunt held in contempt for failure to pay child support. The issue revolves around Hunt’s “ability to pay” and his claim that his religious beliefs as a member of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in Island Pond deprive him of that ability. The Island Pond church alleges…