Aum Shinrikyo and Cults that Went Wacko

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Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments
Leader: Joseph Kibwetere

Preaching the end of the world and the need to follow the decalogue, Kibwetere and his main collaborator Credonia Mwerinde, a one-time prostitute, saw visions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary and imposed long bouts of fasting and sexual abstinence on their followers. But the expected end-of-the world did not arrive...

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