Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a ...

Former traffic cop Sergei Torop commanded followers to stop using money while extracting funds from them through ...

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

A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison ... He attracted thousands of followers to remote ...

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

Siberian cult leader Sergei Torop, who claimed to be Jesus reincarnated, ... Torop, 64, set up the Church of the Last Testament in a remote part of Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region in 1991, ...

Thousands of Russians have flocked to southern Siberia to follow a man who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. Sergey Anatolyevitch Toro, 56, was once a traffic policeman and a Red Army ...

The Jesus of Siberia Rocco Castoro, VICE editor-in-chief 3 minute read Published 6:59 AM EST, Thu December 22, 2011 Link Copied! Self-proclaimed Jesus commands ...

"Vissarion the Teacher," or "Jesus of Siberia," Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop meets followers in the remote village of Petropavlovka, in Russia's Siberia region, August 18, 2009.

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after being convicted of harming his followers' health and financial affairs.

The Jesus of Siberia Rocco Castoro, VICE editor-in-chief 3 minute read Published 6:59 AM EST, Thu December 22, 2011 Link Copied! Self-proclaimed Jesus commands ...