招远全能神杀人案在烟台市中级人民法院开庭审理。同日，英国《每日电讯报》发表驻北京记者马尔科姆穆尔文章《中国最激进的邪教》。穆尔记者采访了两家全能神受害家庭成员，并揭露了全能神的邪教本质。  

　　这是中国新年后的一天，28岁的计算机科学专业毕业生彭丽娟离家出走加入了中国最激进的邪教。她的丈夫彭宝顺说：“我回到家发现汽车在，她的衣服和身份证以及其他东西都在，但她却失踪了。”  

　　这对夫妇新婚才一年，很少吵架。但七个月后，彭宝顺再也没有妻子的任何音讯。  

　　彭宝顺夫妇所在的山东省，是邪教大红龙（全能神）总部所在地，全能神声称一名40多岁的女子杨向斌，有时候也叫邓闪电，是耶稣的复活化身。  

　　 8 月21日 ，5名全能神邪教成员因涉嫌在烟台招远麦当劳餐厅杀害一名37岁的女子受审。受害人当时正在餐厅等待丈夫及7岁的儿子。从现场手机拍摄视频显示，现场没有人站出来。嫌疑人张立冬是一名失业的销售员，他及其三名子女以及同伴试图拉受害女子加入全能神，失败后用棍棒残忍地杀害了女子。嫌疑人张立冬被捕后仍在电视中声称：“她是一个女魔，我们不怕法律，我们心中有神。” 

　　全能神教会仍然声称招远麦当劳事件“充满了谎言及可疑”。全能神教会头目杨向斌以及她的情人、邪教创始人、物理教师赵维山持假护照以政治避难为由滞留在美国。如今，赵维山和杨向斌幕后操纵了一个拥有上百万成员的组织团体，他们通过残忍的方式招聘发展成员，特别针对家庭主妇和中国国内基督教成员。  

　　彭先生向记者表示，他看到过一些全能神的资料，刚开始看就像正常的基督教，没有什么异常，但仔细读下去，就会看到他们宣扬杨向斌就是全能神。他说，他们的教义简单明了，就是让你一遍又一遍重复，你必须得服从“神”，听她的，不能有任何异议。一旦你想退出就会遭到恐吓威胁。六个月后，一名新成员就会被洗脑加入教会。  

　　全能神教会，也被称作东方闪电，有一个非常华丽的中英双语网站，上面有专业制作的视频，最近甚至在《纽约时报》做了一个双页广告。 

　　今年6、7月间美国发出一份22页的全能神简介，简介中该邪教领导宣扬“选民”应该时刻准备“牺牲自己的生命”，他们的最终目标是杀死共产党（他们称为“大红龙”）。如果教徒杀死大红龙共产党员，“大红龙的灵魂才不会附在他们身上。”  

　　据中国国家媒体报道，中国政府一直在慢慢地掌握该邪教的规模，但是麦当劳事件发生后，中国警方已逮捕了超过1000名的邪教成员。目前，许多全能神教徒已转入地下，留宿在中国农村的“寄宿家庭”。邪教领导们作出指示说：“每个教区都要确保安全。每个人都要隐藏起来，这种情况也许会持续到十月。假如当地形势特别差的，可以隐藏在周边城市。”  

　　北京汽车配件厂的工程师齐建国向记者表示，教会新成员90%都是妇女，许多都是有朋友和家人介绍入教的。齐先生说：“我妻子一直很听她母亲的，所以她妈一叫，她就入教了。”齐先生的妻子在今年年初抛弃了他和他们5岁的儿子，加入邪教组织：“你可以看到，这个邪教和基督教相差十万八千里，基督教是宣扬家庭的重要性。谁会让一个母亲丢下自己的亲骨肉啊？”齐先生表示他的情况只是成千上万个深受全能神其害案例之一：“单单一个北京市就大概有3万个类似我这样被全能神搞的妻离子散的家庭。” 

　　他说：“全能神就像一个金字塔，底层人员不知道上层人员的姓名，这个组织的目的就是敛财，教徒必须给教会捐款。”  

　　他还补充，多年来，全能神从原先针对农村地区未受过教育的农民，逐步转变对象，针对一些受过高等教育的人群，山东有一个女教徒是研究生学历，广州有一个特警也加入了全能神，被领导发现后入狱三年。  

　　一位不愿透露姓名的扬州私营业主，现年31岁，曾经加入过全能神，她向记者表示当初加入全能神也是受一个好友的劝说：“该教会的策略是慢慢引诱你，就像在学校上课一样。他们告诉我们相信上帝有三个步骤，首先是信约瑟，然后是基督，最后就是那个转世女基督杨向斌。他们要求我们去改变更多人的信仰，否则上帝会不高兴。这些聚会都是由“老师”带领，像我一样的新成员不能询问他们任何私人的问题。我连我老师的真实姓名都不知道，只知道叫小红。” 

　　她表示自己入会后，感到越来越焦虑：“晚上一个人的时候特别害怕。”最后经过丈夫的劝说，她终于离开了教会。  

　　但是，彭先生和齐先生表示，他们的妻子自从加入全能神后，对其他的事情包括工作都失去了兴趣，把全部精力都用在网上观看邪教视频。彭先生说：“她行踪很神秘，不允许别人查看她的手机，到了晚上会将手机放在枕头下，基本停止了所有的工作，全部时间都用在了邪教网站。” 

　　英文链接：　http://www.telegraph.co.ukews/worldnews/asia/china/11046155/Inside-Chinas-most-radical-cult.html   

　　Inside China 's most radical cult  

　　It was the day after Chinese New Year when Peng Lijuan, a 28-year-old computer science graduate, ran off to join China 's most radical cult.  

　　"When I got home, I found our car there, and all her clothes, her ID card, all her belongings, but she was missing," said her husband Peng Baoshun.  

　　The couple had only been married for a year and rarely fought, said Mr Peng. Seven months later, he has not seen or heard from her since.  

　　 Shandong , their home province, is the heart of the Church of Almighty God , a cult that believes that Jesus has risen in the shape of a 40-something Chinese woman named Yang Xiangbin, also sometimes known as Lightning Deng.  

　　Today, five members of the cult will go on trial in Yantai, a seaside city in Shandong , for murdering a 37-year-old woman in a branch of McDonald's while she waited for her husband and seven-year-old son.  

　　No one intervened to stop the killing, which was caught on smartphone cameras, as Zhang Lidong, an unemployed salesman, three of his children and his partner tried to enlist the woman and then bludgeoned her to death when they failed. 

　　"She was a monster," he later said on television. "She is an evil spirit. We are not afraid of the law. We have faith in God."  

　　The Church of Almighty God has said the case against its five members is "full of lies and layered with dubious facts".  

　　After being put on a wanted list by the Chinese police 14 years ago, Yang Xiangbin and her lover, the founder of the cult and a former physics teacher Zhao Weishan, travelled to the United States on false passports and claimed political asylum.  

　　Today, they mastermind an organisation with as many as a million members and which is on a ruthless recruitment drive, especially targeting housewives and members of China 's Christian congregations.  

　　"I have seen some of their teaching material," said Mr Peng. "It begins just like normal Christianity, with no difference at all. But when you get more involved, they introduce the theory of [Mrs Yang] being 'Almighty God'."  

　　Mr Peng said the teachings are straightforward. "They just want you to repeat over and over that you obey 'God', listen to her, and not fight back. And there are threats for those who think of quitting. After six months, a new member can be brainwashed."  

　　The Church of Almighty God, which is also known as Eastern Lightning, boasts a slick website in both Chinese and English, professionally produced videos, and even recently took a double-page advertisement in The Times newspaper.  

　　In 22 pages of instructions sent from the United States in June and July, the heads of the cult preached that the "chosen ones" should be ready to "sacrifice their lives" and that their ultimate goal is to kill the Communist party, referred to in their teachings as "the Great Red Dragon". 

　　If cultists murder Communist party members "the spirit of the Great Red Dragon will no longer possess them," according to the material.  

　　The Chinese government has been slow to grasp the scale of the cult, but since the McDonald's attack in May the police have arrested over 1,000 of its members, according to state media.  

　　As a result, many members have gone underground, staying with "host families" in the Chinese countryside.  

　　"Every parish must secure its perimeter," said the instructions from the cult leaders. "Everyone should keep hiding, maybe until October. If the situations in certain cities are particularly bad, you should hide in a neighbouring city." 

　　In Beijing , Qi Jianguo, a former engineer at a car parts factory, said 90 per cent of the cult's new members are women, many of whom have been introduced by their friends and family.  

　　"My wife was always very respectful of her mother, so when she asked her to start going, she did," said Mr Qi, whose wife abandoned him and their five-year-old son earlier this year.  

　　"You can see how far from Christianity this cult is. Christianity preaches that family is important. Who would tell a mother to leave behind their child?"  

　　Mr Qi is part of a network of thousands of family members who use the internet to share their stories. "There must be 30,000 families in Beijing alone who have been abandoned," he said.  

　　"From what people say, the cult is like a pyramid and the members at the bottom do not know the names of the levels above. The purpose is to collect money. They have to give donations," he said.  

　　He added that the cult, which for many years has recruited uneducated Chinese in the countryside, is changing its focus. "They are now targeting educated members. There is one woman who joined in Shandong with a postgraduate degree, and there was a SWAT policeman in Guangzhou who was given three years in jail after his commander found out he had joined." 

　　One 31-year-old former member of the cult, who owns a small company in the eastern city of Yangzhou , who asked not to be named, said she had started going to meetings because a close friend asked her to.  

　　"The strategy is to slowly draw you in. It is like taking classes in school. They told us there are three steps to believing in God. First you believe in Joseph, then in Christ, then in the female reincarnation of Christ."  

　　"They asked us to convert more people or God would be upset. The meetings were led by 'teachers'. New members like me could not ask any questions about their personal life. I only knew my teacher as Little Red. I did not even know her real name."  

　　The woman said she had quit after feeling herself become more and more anxious about life. "At night I would always feel scared when I was alone," she said. Her husband eventually persuaded her to quit. 

　　But both Mr Peng and Mr Qi saw their wives gradually lose interest in their work and devoted their lives to watching videos online.  

　　"She was very mysterious, always keeping secrets and never allowing anyone to see her mobile phone, hiding it under her pillow at night," said Mr Peng. "She basically stopped working, just spent her time on the internet".  

　　However, both men dismissed some of the wilder rumours circulating about the cult; that members have kidnapped priests and that they blackmail them after seducing them into orgies.  

　　"There may be some extreme cases," said Mr Qi. "But basically the members are good in their heart."