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 ...

The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic officer and founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after experiencing a "divine revelation".

Vissarion and his followers believe the end of the world is coming and their Siberian community is the ark of salvation. Such sects have proliferated in Russia’s wilderness.

The end of the USSR in 1991 was one of the most cataclysmic events in history, with its aftereffects still being felt three ...

Who is Vissarion, Sergey Torop? Sergey Torop was born on January 14, 1961, in Krasnodar, Russia. The self proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus did not start out as the second coming of the Messiah.

Vissarion himself stays at the edge of the narrative. Like planets around the sun, the lives of these people rotate around Vissarion, although they rarely ever meet him.

SERGEY Torop, also known as Vissarion, is a Russian spiritual leader and founder of a non profit foundation. His Christianity based religion has amassed thousands of followers, read on to discover … ...