Thousands of Russians have flocked to southern Siberia to follow a man who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. 7 STABBED IN SIBERIAN ATTACK; RUSSIA SKEPTICAL OF ISIS CLAIMThe leader teaches his followers about the apocalypse, reincarnation and vegetarianism, the Mirror reported. The BBC’s Simon Reeve interviewed Vissarion and a teacher who lived in Petropavlovka as part of a documentary slated to air Thursday, the Mirror reported. Newsweek reported Vissarion’s first wife left him after he wed a 19-year-old woman, who posed nude for his paintings. Reeve noted at the end of the interview Vissarion requested his followers “donate money and provide labor for his profit-making businesses.”

Source: Fox News October 04, 2017 17:01 UTC