A Chinese woman from the city of Zhuji in Zhejiang Province is facing three and a half years in prison after being convicted for propagating cultist beliefs on Wednesday.

A local court at Zhuji City found Shou Guoying guilty of spreading the ideologies of the notorious cult Quannengshen or the Church of Almighty God and has sentenced her three and a half years of imprisonment.

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According to the Xinhua News agency, Shou was identified as the sect's leader in the area just six months after she came in contact with Quannengshen.

During investigations, authorities found out that she had been distributing books, CDs, memory cards and other materials that contain an organized account of the sect's beliefs.

Also known as the Eastern Lightning, the cult generally has the same beliefs and ideologies as typical Catholics aside from the fact that they believe that Jesus Christ has been reincarnated as a 40-year-old woman who happened to be the cult's founder's wife.

According to the court, Shou has "seriously violated national law" as China laws deem cultist beliefs unlawful and dubbed it as a 'social cancer and a plague to humankind.'

During the 1990s, the Church of Almight God was first discovered in Henan province where a former physics professor Zhao Weishan initiated it and led people to believe that his wife, Yang Xiangbin was Jesus Christ's resurrected self.

Their cult had been linked to several reports of violent crimes which resulted from people refusing to join them.

More recently, five of its members underwent trial for beating to death a mother at a McDonald's restaurant in China who refused to give them her contact number.

They were also blamed for numerous reports of kidnapping and murders.

As their numbers grew, several witnesses revealed that most of their members have been confused and coerced into joining while others have been brainwashed by intricately woven lies spread though their well-organized website.

After being included in China's wanted list, the couple fled to the United States in 2000 where they invoked diplomatic immunity.

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