I do not believe he was the nemesis of Ann Hark; they knew one another well enough, although his approach to the culture was entirely different, somewhat nostalgic but much more sensitive, much more in tune with the real roots of the Pennsylvania Dutch people, and he was deeply alarmed by the manner in which the Amish and other plain sects were being subsumed as the only symbol of who we are.
Vaughan said he believes that he and members of his sect are being wrongly blamed for Dobben's religious preoccupation.
The pamphlet, entitled "The Conspiracy of the Jehovah's Witnesses" and written by Archimandrite Haralambos Va silopoulos, says the sect is being financed in Grece by the "inter national Jewish leadership" as "the advance guard of world Zionism" against Christianity.
DAKAR, Senegal — More than 700 inmates in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi were freed Tuesday night in a daring raid by well-armed attackers on a prison where members of an Islamist sect were being held, authorities and witnesses said Wednesday.
And sect members are being re-educated to become more integrated into society.
Minorities belonging to non-Muslim sects and even large numbers of Muslims belonging to smaller sects, such as the Shias, are being gunned down on a daily basis.
Today, both Muslim sects and non-Muslim minorities are being persecuted in the Middle East, but people are apt to forget that the Jews were one of the first.
The soldiers also rescued a young woman, an Iraqi from the minority Yazidi sect, who was being held by the couple as a slave, according to statements issued by the White House and the Defense Department.
Returning to Concord, Pierce resumed his law work; in one notable case he defended the religious liberty of the Shakers, the insular sect who were being threatened with legal action over accusations of abuse.
Rather, this was Orange County, and the victims — a husband and wife who are members of the Hasidic sect known as Satmars — said they were being harassed by those in their own insular world here.
