The Twelve Tribes is planning a cafe, additional retail space, a private theater and a courtyard complex at its Main Street location. Wicked Local file photo Source: Wicked Local Plymoputh – 9th March 2015 By Emily Clark eclark@wickedlocal.com Posted Mar. 9, 2015 at 8:00 AM PLYMOUTH – A new two-story café, another store, a private…
The stories about the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult have begun. Our local newspaper carried the story of a former Twelve Tribes member. Augburger Allgemeine Von Holger Sabinsky -Wolf and Anika Taiber September 14, 2013 Translated from the German He who spares the rod hates his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him often. The…
Panorama – Germany August 5, 2014 Translated from the German The Twelve Tribes children are brutally beaten up in the name of the Lord. The sect “12 Tribes” makes for heated debate. A RTL report shows how the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult systematically punishes its weakest members. Shocking! RTL reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk secretly documented everyday…
Source:Examiner Feb. 4, 2015, Connect Savannah reporter, Jessica Leigh Lebos, gives the ‘Twelve Tribes’ new café a glowing plug for organic coffee, teas, homemade muffins, Danishes and fruit-stuffed scones. “We want people to get to know us,” says Brian Fenster, 41, who has lived in Twelve Tribes communities around the country for 20 years and…
The Devon cult that canes tiny children to ‘cleanse their sins’: As social services launches an investigation, a mother’s shocking testimony lifts the lid on the mysterious commune squatting on a farm -’Vicki’ has lifted the lid on the commune she escaped from in 2005 -Then a vulnerable, single mother, she was ordered to beat…
source: Suddeutsche Zeitung – 31 October 2014 Robert Pleyer was a member of the faith community “Twelve Tribes”. In a book the ex-member describes how children are ill-treated. It also concerns his own daughter. When Robert Pleyer’s daughter Asarah is eight months old, he ill-treats her for the first time. She sits on his lap,…
CBC A Winnipeg religious group is concerned about a letter circulating in the Wolseley area alleging that they abuse children. “Whoever wrote it, they were so inconsiderate they didn’t even put their name on it,” said Maurice Welch, a member of the Winnipeg arm of Twelve Tribes, a Christian sect with communities around the world. “The allegations…
CBC Author goes undercover to learn about insular group I have encountered the Twelve Tribes several times over the years, usually at the booth they would set up at public events like Ciclovia, or the annual Peace and Justice Festival. On one occasion I visited their restaurant on Sherbrook Street and had an enjoyable meal there….
CBC Child and Family Services says it’s looking into allegations children might be abused A Winnipeg religious group called Twelve Tribes is defending the way it physically disciplines children, using a type of stick. Manitoba’s child welfare authorities said they are looking into the group after CBC’s story earlier this week. Twelve Tribes, a Christian…