Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
Those arrested include the mother of the child, and the suspects are said to be members of a religious sect.
The Alevis, a big religious sect that numbers up to a quarter of Turkey's population of 62m, are suspicious of Mr Erbakan.
In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
We see the emergence of an almost-religious sect in Embassytown rise up to preach against the lies, to warn against evil, led by the simile Valdik.
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To many of us, the Druids sound as if they have walked straight out of a science fiction novel, or perhaps even suggest something sinister akin to a strange cult or weird religious sect.
The place is provincial England, the time is the nineteen-eighties, and the hero is Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner), a shy and studious boy who lives with his mother among the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect.
"With all due respect, the Patriarch, the Synod and the Patriarchate find your letter surprising and unacceptable since it constitutes an outright and inappropriate interference in their autonomy as a religious sect and in the religious freedom of members of the Greek Orthodox congregation, " it said.
The arrest of Yoel Malik, 33, of Brooklyn comes amid mounting pressure to report allegations of abuse within the insular, secretive community, the largest outside Israel, and barely a week after a respected religious counselor in the same sect was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl.
Based on the island of Lanzarote, this sect offers hope in a morally bankrupt post-religious society by promising immortality.
Japan, which has local police forces rather than a real national one and is hesitant, for historical reasons, about interfering with religious groups, may be the only industrial democracy where a sect like Aum Shinrikyo could have gathered so much destructive power.
Nor does it help that every Muslim sect, society and state has developed differing versions of religious law.
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