Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

Investigative Committee stated that Sergei Torop and his aides caused serious mental and physical harm to followers, ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

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Two tombs, one ancient question. This video explores the long-standing debate between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb as the true burial place of Jesus. While the Holy ...

Their leader, Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who now calls himself Vissarion, claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus. Since the 1990s, his followers have been building a settlement, the ...

2019 is bound to become one of the largest fire years on record in the Arctic Circle, and especially in Siberia. How much carbon these fires release remains a challenging question. Very little ground ...