South Korean Preacher Arrested After Stranding Own Cult In Fiji

[ramonmercado]

Another Cult Leader abandons her followers, tales of woe and violence.

South Korean preacher arrested after stranding her cult in Fiji

Shin Ok-ju held as former members of Grace Road Church tell of violent beatings

A South Korean cult leader has been arrested after abandoning 400 of her followers in Fiji.

Grace Road Church founder Shin Ok-ju and three other senior members of the group were arrested at Incheon International Airport on Sunday, according to a statement by police in Gyeonggi province.

Shin is accused of confiscating the passports of 400 of her followers, stranding them in Fiji, as well as overseeing a tyrannical regime in which members were forced to labour on rice farms and inflict savage beatings on one another.

As leader of Grace Road Church, Shin preaches an apocalyptic brand of Christianity which has been “pinpointed by major Korean church denominations as heretical”, Korean Christian newspaper The Kukmin Times reports.

In 2014, Shin began prophesying a disastrous famine, encouraging her devotees to found a new colony on far-flung Fiji, which she said would offer them the best chance of survival. ...

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[AlchoPwn]

In 2014, Shin began prophesying a disastrous famine, encouraging her devotees to found a new colony on far-flung Fiji, which she said would offer them the best chance of survival.

FFS! Fiji is facing a huge threat from Global Warming. Did nobody think to fact check the notion that Fiji might not be famine proof when it sinks below the waves? Truly religion is the unscrupulous leading the gullible into the desert.

 

[ramonmercado]

It's doomsday for her.

South Korean doomsday cult leader is jailed for six years over beatings and brutal rituals handed out to hundreds of followers to 'drive out evil spirits'

• Shin Ok-ju convinced 400 of her followers to move to Fiji to protect themselves
• Once they arrived their passports were taken and they suffered physical torture
• Shin was convicted of violence, child abuse and fraud and sentenced yesterday

PUBLISHED: 11:26, 31 July 2019 | UPDATED: 11:37, 31 July 2019
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[ramonmercado]

The Grace Road Church is in trouble again.

Four suspected high-ranking members of a South Korean doomsday cult have been arrested in Fiji.

Two were deported, but a legal injunction prevented the others from being ejected, Fiji media report.

The Grace Road Church became notorious after 400 of its members moved to Fiji in 2014 claiming they would be safe from imminent natural disaster. Its founder Shin Ok-ju was jailed in 2019 for holding followers captive in Fiji and subjecting them to violence.

The Church has built a business empire after arriving in Fiji. It denies it is a cult - as well as allegations of abuse.

However, members who have been able to return to South Korea have accused Ms Shin of confiscating their passports and holding them against their will. They have alleged the Church uses forced labour and issues ritual beatings so harsh that they have led to the death of one follower.

South Korea issued an international arrest warrant and those on Fiji's deportation list have been wanted by the international policing organisation Interpol since 2018.

Two of those arrested in Fiji, Byeong Joon Lee and Beomseop Shin, have been returned, Fijian Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua announced on Wednesday.

Two other members, including the group's acting president Sung Jin Lee, were released after a High Court order prevented them from being deported.

The Church's acting senior director and president of its business interests, Daniel Kim, is among the two men still at large. He is the son of the founder of the Church.

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