Events in which religion met political power and was broken or ended by it: the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the mass death at Jonestown, the Abolition of the Caliphate and the End of Sasanian Patronage of Zoroastrianism. An event belongs here when its cited article describes a rebellion, a mass tragedy or the political end of a religious institution. It excludes foundings, conversions and migrations.
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Jonestown (Wikipedia)
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The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote commune in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious organization led by Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died in a coordinated mass murder-suicide across three locations: the Jonestown compound, a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and the group's headquarters in Georgetown, making "Jonestown" internationally infamous.
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