RELIGION ROUND-UP
‘JESUS’ ARRESTED IN RUSSIA
Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop, akaVissarion (‘He who gives new life’), the Russian extraffic cop who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus (FT126:06, 231:05) and who has led the messianic Church of the Last Testament cult for the past three decades, was arrested on 22 September after a large operation involving agents from Russia’s FSB security service as well as police and other agencies.
Vans, buses, ambulances and helicopters all took part in the raid on the cult’s City of the Sun settlement,
