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Ten members of a northern Rwanda-based cult, the Minevam sect, have been imprisoned in the northern prefecture of Byumba, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Wednesday. It quoted the commander of Byumba police station Lieutenant Jean de Dieu Gashiramanga as saying that the believers were arrested following "their illegal mode of operation." Some of the
believers were convinced that God was soon coming, students abandoned schools and others left work, the report stated. The cult was alleged to have accommodated people from different areas of Rwanda, and from Uganda, without informing local authorities and in contravention of the law.
Rwanda's Justice and Institutional Relations Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo has said that "religious sects without registration should not be allowed to operate because it is such that propagate dubious teachings based on personal gains". Prefects and other local authorities should be very keen on knowing and following up the activities of all religious sects' in
their areas of jurisdiction, RNA quoted de Dieu Mucyo as saying.
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