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SERGEI TOROP

• Russian authorities on Tuesday carried out a special operation to arrest Sergei Torop, a former traffic police officer who claims to be the reincarnation of Lord Jesus and has been running a religious sect in Siberia for the last 30 years. Torop, also known as Vissarion by his followers, has been accused by the Russian intelligence committee of extorting money and causing physical and psychological harm to his followers. Two of his aides, Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov, were also arrested in the operation that involved agents from Russia’s FSB security service as well as police and other agencies.

Who is Sergei Torop?

• Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop was born at Krasnodar in southern Russia in January 1961. He worked in the Soviet army, before settling down at Minusinsk, where he worked as a traffic officer. Torop lost his job in 1989, and a year later he claimed to have had a mystical revelation, and that he was born as Vissarion, or the reincarnated Christ.
• Torop was 29 years old back then, and the Soviet Union he grew up in had just disintegrated. The fall of the atheist state, gave rise to several domestic religious movements.
• A report in the New Yorker written in 2013, suggested that as per the Russian orthodox church, close to four thousand religious movements existed across the country. A view shows Russian security forces’ members during the detention of leaders of the

What is the Church of the last testament?

• The Church of the last testament that Vissarion founded combines elements of Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhist themes of reincarnation and theories about an impending apocalypse. In 1995, followers of the church founded a settlement known as the ‘City of the sun’ in the Kuraga region of Siberia.
• Anthropologist Joanna Urbanczyk, in her research paper titled, ‘Last testament church- the power of unanimity’, noted that by 2013, the total number of followers of Vissarion numbered about four to five thousand.

What is the Church of the last testament?

• Vissarion’s settlement is governed by a set of mysterious religious tenets, prayers, and a new calendar that begins from the year 1961 when Torop was born. A strict code of conduct is in place where veganism is the rule. Use of abusive language, tobacco and alcohol is strictly prohibited.
• Any kind of monetary exchange within the community is not allowed. Restraining from criticising others and avoiding conflict are some of the fundamental rules of the movement.

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