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China rounds up hundreds of members of doomsday cult (Church of Almighty God, with a female Jesus)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b82195d0-4857-11e2-a1c0-00144feab49a.htmlChina rounds up members of doomsday cult
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
Police across China are rounding up members of a quasi-Christian doomsday cult who have been preaching the end of the world and urging people to launch a “decisive battle” to slay the “big red dragon” of the Communist party.
Scores and perhaps hundreds of members of an outlawed cult known as the Church of Almighty God have been detained throughout the country in recent days as Beijing tries to stop believers taking drastic action on what they believe to be the eve of the apocalypse, according to relatives of cult members and state media reports.
The group, which preaches the second coming of a female Jesus, appears to have adapted an ancient Mayan prophecy that some people believe predicts the end of the world on December 21 2012 and has been popularised by Hollywood movies such as “2012” ...
... The leader of the cult now lives in the US.
