A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

Investigative Committee stated that Sergei Torop and his aides caused serious mental and physical harm to followers, ...

After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison ... He attracted thousands of followers to remote ...

The “Tumat Puppies” also had traces of their last meal still in their stomachs, which included meat from a woolly rhinoceros ...

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Their leader, Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who now calls himself Vissarion, claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus. Since the 1990s, his followers have been building a settlement, the ...