14 Almighty God cult members are jailed for ‘brainwashing believers’

Fourteen members of China’s Almighty God cult have been jailed for up to three years months in the latest crackdown after two members were executed this year for killing a woman. Nine members of the banned Quannengshen group were convicted of “undermining the implementation of laws by making use of cult organisations”. The sentences, handed out in the central province of Hubei, ranged from 18 months to three years. On Saturday, a court in the northeastern province of Liaoning sentenced five cult members to prison terms of two or three years.

They also recruited and brainwashed believers

Xinhua report

Followers of Quannengshen, whose name can be translated as Church of Almighty God, believe that Jesus has been reincarnated as a Chinese woman – the wife of the cult’s founder. The organisation appeared in the 1990s and the founder and his wife fled to the U.S. in 2000. A father and daughter who belonged to Quannengshen were executed in February after being convicted of beating a woman to death at a McDonald’s restaurant, reportedly after she rebuffed their attempts to recruit her. Three others convicted over the attack – including another of the executed man’s daughters – were given prison terms ranging from seven years to life.

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