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Saturday marks the 32nd anniversary of the FBI's raid on the Branch Davidian Christian compound near Waco, Texas.The incident ...
More than 75 adults and children died during the siege.
If you are a Branch Davidian, Christ lives on a threadbare piece of land 10 miles east of Waco called Mount Carmel.
Thirty-two years ago, a 51-day standoff between federal law enforcement and a religious cult ended in a massive blaze ...
When Howell and seven followers stood trial in 1988 for the attempted murder of self-proclaimed prophet George Roden, Howell had wept. He was holding his daughter, Star, in his arms. It had touched ...
They have been paid for by various right wing militia groups still angry at what they saw as the fatal excess of the government in dealing with the Waco situation. But Mount Carmel also has a ...
The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.
Though 82 Mount Carmel residents died in 1993’s chilling ... Unlike a fiction book, however, the Waco story lacks clear heroes and villains. The inability to distinguish the “good guys ...