Faithful of a banned cult beat mum to death for refusing to be recruited
Man attacking and beating up woman Photo:www.independent.ie
Five members of a church have been indicted by court prosecutors in China on charges of intentional homicide after they beat up a 35-year-old mother, and killed her after she refused to give out her mobile phone number, in a bid to recruit her to their church.
The people charged, all members of the banned cult, the Church of Almighty God, are alleged to have brutally killed Wu Shuoyan after they asked for her number at a McDonald s restaurant in Zhaoyuan on May 28, Xinhua reported, quoting the Supreme People s Procuratorate.
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In May of 2014, a group of people from a Chinese doomsday cult known as the Church of the Almighty God walked into a McDonald’s restaurant in China’s eastern Shandong province and tried to recruit a 35-year-old woman named Wu Shuoyan to join their ranks. When the woman refused to provide the cult members with her personal contact information, they beat her to death in broad daylight inside the fast-food joint.
The Church of Almighty God is a relatively new cult in China, though, and fringe religious beliefs have existed in the country for a very, very long time. In this episode of the podcast, host Matt Bossons will introduce you to two Chinese cults – one new and the other old (ancient, in fact).