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Broadway World
April 25, 2018
... the sisters help followers of other polygamous groups escape, including those in The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the Apostolic United Brethren. The many people who reach out to the sisters for help throughout the season include, an elite Order leader's daughter whoÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 17, 2018
Dee Jessop was a member of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Willie Jessop said his brother was the oldest of their mother's eight children. Dee Jessop had “a large family” of his own, the brother said. The FLDS' longtime home is along the Utah-Arizona line.
The Cheat Sheet
April 12, 2018
Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was convicted of child sexual assault. | Douglas C. Pizac-Pool/Getty ... The leader of the FLDS, Warren Jeffs, is supposedly still running the cult from prison, according to Newsweek. The women who escaped, all fled theÃâà...
Tyler Morning Telegraph
April 7, 2018
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints settled in a remote area near Eldorado, and isolated themselves on their .... The state of Texas seized the property in April 2013 after church leaders stuck by polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs' "answer them nothing" order and didÃâà...
San Angelo Standard Times
April 4, 2018
Until he was about 10, life had been good to Roy Jeffs, the son of Warren Jeffs, president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Despite not having TV or toys – among the rules his father put in place after becoming leader – there was still family structure and bigÃâà...
Tampabay.com
April 3, 2018
So you've finished streaming the addictive new Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country, about controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the city his followers founded in 1980s' Oregon. Now you're looking for more shows, podcasts and documentaries about cults, fanatics and secretiveÃâà...
San Angelo Standard Times
April 3, 2018
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints settled in a remote area near Eldorado, Texas, and isolated themselves on their ... The YFZ Ranch was a polygamist FLDS ranch under the leadership of Warren Jeffs. .... More: FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs caught after year on lam.
Religion & Politics
March 27, 2018
The place Barlow is describing is perhaps best known as an outpost of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a breakaway ... has made headlines for its increasingly insular relationship to the outside world and the iron-handed rule of its now imprisoned leader, Warren Jeffs.
GetReligion (blog)
March 12, 2018
Most are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot of Mormonism that continues polygamy more than a century ... Donia Jessop is a former member of the religious group but left four years ago over unrest about (sect leader Warren) Jeffs was running the group.
KUTV 2News
March 12, 2018
Government-ordered evictions of nearly 150 homes have forced Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints families to seek refuge in trailers around town ... The new town leadership is the latest sign that the community's demographics are shifting as it begins to resemble a typical town in the U.S. West, not aÃâà...
St George News
March 10, 2018
In this file photo, Winston Blackmore, the religious leader of the controversial polygamous community of Bountiful, shares a laugh with six of his daughters and ... where the court heard residents are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which condones plural marriage.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 10, 2018
But Mayor Jessop said all of them are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of FLDS, an offshoot of mainstream ... The new town leadership is the latest sign that the community's demographics are shifting as it begins to resemble a typical town in the U.S. West, not aÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 9, 2018
Winston Blackmore, a religious leader of the polygamous community of Bountiful, located near Creston, B.C., shares a laugh with six of his daughters ... Last year, court heard Bountiful residents are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which condones plural marriage.
Bustle
March 9, 2018
The sect in question is the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), more widely known as the Mormon ... "My religion teaches me that I should not follow a woman for a leader in a public or family capacity.".
CBS News
March 9, 2018
"My religion teaches me that I should not follow a woman for a leader in a public or family capacity." He cited ... But Mayor Jessop said all of them are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of FLDS, an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that practices polygamy.
Salt Lake Tribune
March 8, 2018
(Rick Bowmer | Associated Press file photo) This Oct. 26, 2017, file photo shows Hildale, Utah, sitting at the base of Red Rock Cliff mountains, with its sister city, Colorado City, Ariz., in the foreground. Six of seven municipal workers for the town of Hildale, Utah, quit after Mayor Donia Jessop was elected andÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 6, 2018
No one who has ever been in the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has ever had a story like Margaret Cooke's. ... Courtesy A drawing displayed by Wallace Jeffs, who was forced out of the FLDS Church in 2010, expresses support for imprisoned FLDS leader andÃâà...
Newsweek
December 29, 2017
Warren Jeffs, the leader of the group, told the plaintiff in the case that God would punish her if she cried during the rituals and that any pain she felt ... Women and children of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) walk around an enclosed compound in Eldorado, Texas.
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