Religious Crime

A talented cellist with a promising future, Jack daydreams about two things: leaving his isolated village of Massena, New York, to become a professional musician and kissing Emaline Durham—a Gentile girl he knows he can never be with. But when Emaline’s little sister, Daisy, disappears in Paradise Woods, a seething lie turns Jack’s world into a living nightmare.

Although news of Christians being killed overseas hits major media outlets from time to time, the news quickly fades away while our fellow believers continue to suffer. Johnnie Moore, as he has done before, wants to awaken the church and American politicians to the daily horrors happening to Christians, focusing this time on Africa. While the world has been fixated on jihadist threats in the Middle East, terrorists from Nigeria to Kenya have had free reign to massacre on a scale far beyond that of the terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Medlemmarna i Heaven’s Gate har lever ett liv dolt för omvärlden fram till den där vårdagen 1997 då polisen får ett anonymt tips. På en adress i San Diego i Kalifornien hittar de 39 kroppar, alla iförda identiska svarta Nike-sneakers och täckta av lila mattor. Heaven’s Gate är en liten, blint hängiven sekt som blandar element från kristendom och science fiction med UFO:n och Star Trek. På ytan verkar den harmlös, i själva verket är den allt annat än det. I SEKTENS MAKT får du komma nära några av världshistoriens mest bisarra och brutala sekter.

This audiobook will document the rise to power of the most notorious cult leader of all time. Jim Jones was directly responsible for the deaths of over 900 of his followers. Many of them children. The story of the Jonestown is one of betrayed hope. Jones offered poor and needed people a promised land and in return for giving him their resources and trust, he took their lives.