Bones of Contention Morningland sect seeks to move founder’s remains to L.B. From The Long Beach Press Telegram, 1/25/2004 Daniel Sperato, founder of Morningland who was also know as Master Donato, is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park in Escondido. Followers of Morningland want to have Sperato’s remains exhumed and buried under the church in […]
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Ed Masry, More Famous than Donato the Christ! By Brett Johnson Ventura County Star writer Sunday March 25, 2001 Shortcut to “Morningland” mentioned in article
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The End of the World as We Know It by Columnist Chris Tomlinson The Birmingham Post What exactly I am going to do next year, when I find myself stuck for column inches, I do not know, but this week I’d like to take a serious look at the Y2K issue. With half the IT […]
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Apocalypse Now. No, Really. Now! By Alex Heard and Peter Klebnikov With 1999 almost on us and the year 2000 starting to awaken, growl and plod fatefully toward the camera lens, you can count on 12 months of panicky millennial excitements. The personnel are certainly out there, ready to go. According to a 1997 Associated […]
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(Like Heaven’s Gate) Some Members Also Believe a Spaceship Will Deliver Their Souls From Earth Sunday, March 30, 1997 Section: MAIN NEWS Page: A8 BYLINE: By Susan Pack Staff writer Sometimes, as he sat in the church sanctuary, Gary Shelton felt the vibrations and heard the roar of the engines of the spaceship that would […]
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HQ of controversial sect spared as bomb misfires LONG BEACH — An attempt to blow up the headquarters of a controversial religious sect failed yesterday when a small primary explosion alerted police. Ten industrial-type sticks of dynamite attached to three timing devices and powered by a car battery were found planted in a 6-inch crevice […]
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Man held in planting bomb at cult’s center LONG BEACH — A man whose sister was reportedly being harassed by members of a religious cult was arrested on suspicion of planting a powerful dynamite bomb at the church’s headquarters, police said. Thomas T. McCoy, 26, of Bellflower, was arrested yesterday after a church member saw […]
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Man held in planting bomb at cult’s center. V.2 (Executive News Service) LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police held a man without bail in the attempted bombing of a church criticized by some former members for alleged claims to cure disease. “We have an idea what the motive might be, but I’m not at liberty […]
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Morningland “healing” church lives on in L.B. despite criticism Ranks decimated by death, purges, scandal, state investigation By Larry Keller Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram He was the son of Italian immigrants, a former Catholic altar boy who ran a pizza shop in Syracuse, N.Y. She sold Tupperware and was “a typical middle-class lady,” […]
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Former Morningland disciples describe what life like inside sect “They talk constantly about love, there is a lot of hugging” By Larry Keller Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram Talk to former Morninglanders, the unorthodox church that has been in Long Beach since 1973, and many will tell you three things:
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