A Russian court has sentenced Sergey Torop, a former traffic officer who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, to ...

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

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

The Russian security forces had arrived in September 2020 to arrest the so-called Jesus of Siberia, a former traffic policeman known as ‘Vissarion’ who some viewed as the reincarnation of Christ. The ...

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 … ...