Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...

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 ...

Jezus is gearresteerd in Rusland. Wie had ooit gedacht dit te lezen in 2020? Het gaat om sekteleider Sergei Torop, onder zijn volgelingen beter bekend als Vissarion. Hij beweert de reïncarnatie ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

Hun leider Sergei Torop alias Vissarion, een voormalige politieagent, wordt ervan verdacht de gezondheid van zijn volgers in gevaar te hebben gebracht. Ook enkele andere leiders zijn opgepakt.

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.

Sergei Torop meets with his followers in the remote village of Petropavlovka in 2009 (Picture: Getty) One local resident claimed four helicopters and dozens of masked men had arrived in the area ...

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 ...