Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...

The Russian security forces had arrived in September 2020 to arrest the so-called Jesus of Siberia, a former traffic ...

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

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, 59, will face charges for organizing an illegal religion and extorting money from his cult’s members, whom he allegedly emotionally abused, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

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.

Sergei Torop, who is known to his followers as Vissarion, founded the Church of the Last Testament in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991. He was arrested along with two other leaders of the group.

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 ...