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 ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic officer and founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after experiencing a ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

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

SergeI Torop, 59, known as Vissarion, was arrested by Russian police in Siberia; Troops descended on Petropavlovka which sits 2,600 miles east of Moscow; ...

Sergei Torop, known to his followers as Vissarion, is a former police officer who founded a movement known as the Church of the Last Testament nearly three decades ago. Skip to content.

An elderly woman places a candle under a picture of "Vissarion the Teacher," or "Jesus of Siberia," Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop at a church in the remote village of Petropavlovka, in ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as "Vissarion," meaning "he who gives new life," and two aides used psychological pressure to extract money from his followers and ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a remote but picturesque part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991 ...