The professor spoke about the followers of the sect of Sergei Torop
Many followers of the Church of the Last Testament sect, founded back in the 1990s by Sergei Torop, sold urban housing, transferred large sums to the sect and moved to remote villages in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, having lost social ties. Now they are isolated and dependent on the community.
Alexander Dvorkin, Professor of Religious Studies at St. Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities, told aif.ru On Tuesday, July 1, it was reported that the majority of followers are elderly people, while children, having matured, try to leave the community for large cities.
From 1991 to September 2020, Sergey Torop, Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov founded and headed the Church of the Last Testament religious organization. According to Professor Alexander Dvorkin, the number of her followers exceeded 5,000 people. As the investigation found, the leaders of the community spread the teachings of "United Faith" and used psychological manipulation and group pressure to control the participants, writes RT.
The founder of the Church of the Last Testament sect, Sergei Torop, who became widely known as Vissarion, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the case of organizing a destructive religious community and violence against its members. His associates Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov received 11 and 12 years in prison, respectively. 360.ru . The civil claims of the victims, as well as the claim of the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region in the interests of the Russian Federation, were satisfied by the court for a total amount of over 45 million rubles, IA Regnum clarifies.
The court found that as a result of the sect's activities, 16 people suffered mentally, six physically, and one suffered moderate health damage, the website writes. kp.ru . The professor stressed that the actual number of victims is much higher.
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