Note: Many Christian ministries use the name ‘Agape Ministries.’ This entry concerns a religious group with properties in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and led by Rocco Leo.
Quick Facts
* Names of the group as reported in news media: Agape Ministries of God, Agape Ministries International, Agape Ministries
* Leader: Rocco Leo, ‘known to converts as the benevolent “Brother Rock”.’
* In a May 20, 2010 raid on 12 of the group’s properties police seized an arsenal of weapons, high-powered ammunition and explosives
* Media refer to the group as a Doomsday Cult, but one report notesoffsite “Police say there is no evidence the group is a Doomsday cult but allege the group was amassing weapons and planning to move to a Pacific island.”
* The group reportedly believes the apocalypse will occur in 2012.
* A women who says she is the mother of one of the cult members has told the media that “her granddaughters, aged eight and six, were promised in marriage to members of the Agape Ministries cult.”
* Former members of the group allege leader Rocco Leo and two of his associates were “behind a scheme involving millions of dollars donated by sect members.”
Cult of Christianity
A former member, quoted in the article below, says Rocco Leo preaches that “there is no Jesus, there is no God, there are no Saints and there are no Angels”.
“There is just the Lord and Brother Rock, who is the anointed Man of God.”
If that report is correct, such teachings make Agape Ministries theologically a cult of Christianity.
Sociologically the group appears to have cult-like characteristics as well.
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