"For three months, Pastor Siva Moodley's body has been lying in a funeral home in Fourways, Gauteng, because his family is praying for his resurrection.
Moodley, 53, founder of The Miracle Centre in the north of Johannesburg, died on August 15 after falling ill. Since his death, his body has been kept at Martin's Funeral Home in Fourways.
Martin du Toit, the manager at the funeral home, told the City Press that shortly after his death, Moodley's family and members of the church used to visit the funeral home to pray for his resurrection. But the visits have since stopped.
Du Toit reportedly said the family was ignoring his calls to fetch Moodley's body and that he would approach the Johannesburg City Council to bury him as a pauper.
When the POST contacted Du Toit this week, he said Moodley's family had allegedly told him to stop speaking to the media"
"A court imposed Panama's maximum sentence of 50 years in prison Friday on seven members of a cult who killed a woman and six children in a religious rite in a remote part of the Central American nation.
The court in Bocas del Toro province sentenced two other members of the New Light of God cult to 47 years in prison each.
The cult had operated for about three years in the Ngabe Bugle hamlet of El Terron on Panama's Caribbean coast, but villagers said it had changed after one member had a vision telling the lay preachers they had been "annointed" to exterminate unbelievers."
"A professor at Liberty University [who teaches American Sign Language] is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and court records in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The man, William Atwell, was arrested late last month on charges of sexual battery and abduction by force, court records show. He was released on bail and is due back in court on Jan. 25."
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