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“Thought They Were Just Tourists”…Chinese Illegal Religion Causes Nuisance and Proselytizes at Korean Tourist Site?

Published February 16, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Falan Dafa, Falun Gong, South Korea

Chinese nationals wearing yellow clothes and engaging in group activities at Maemiseong, a major tourist attraction in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, have been caught on camera and are facing heavy criticism from online users. On February 9, a video and…[Continue Reading...]

Bulgaria Investigating Six Mountain Deaths As Group Suicide And Murder

Published February 16, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Bulgaria, cult leader, cults, deaths, Ivaylo Kalushev

Bulgarian authorities are investigating six deaths in two incidents in the country’s northwestern mountains as a suspected murder-suicide case linked to one of the dead, a cave explorer who established himself as a Buddhist spiritual teacher. On Friday, the prosecution…[Continue Reading...]

The man who saves people from the world’s most dangerous cults

Published February 15, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult deprogrammer, cult interventions, cults, deprogramming, Rick Alan Ross

“I don’t want my name in this,” says Grace*, a 40-something mother from central California. “Or Zak’s*. Actually, even the cult, can you change that too? Because they have their bots. They’ll come after us.” It was 2023 and Zak…[Continue Reading...]

Witnesses to the Dirty Secrets of “Petrohan”: 10-Year-Old Boys – Sexual Victims of Kalushev!

Published February 14, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Bulgaria, child abuse, cult leader, Ivaylo Kalushev, sexual abuse

Closed sect where boys aged 10-11 are turned into sexual victims by the "lama" closed religious sect practicing a quasi-Buddhism, where Ivaylo Kalushev has self-appointed as a spiritual guru, convincing parents to hand over their children - boys aged 10-11,…[Continue Reading...]

Bulgaria Investigating Six Mountain Deaths as Group Suicide and Murder

Published February 14, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Bulgaria, cult leader, deaths, Ivaylo Kalushev

Is there life after Lubavitch?

Published February 13, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Chabd Lubavtch, former member, Hasidic sect, personal story, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups

Schneur Zalman Newfield knows as well as anyone what it takes to leave Orthodoxy. In his new memoir, Brooklyn Odyssey, he likens his transformation from Hasidic to secular to a butterfly’s metamorphosis. “At one stage it is clearly a caterpillar;…[Continue Reading...]

Mathura mass killing mystery—tantric baba ‘brainwashing’ or mental distress?

Published February 13, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brainwashing, India, suicide, Tantric baba

Mathura: Around Monday afternoon, 32-year-old Seema told her father she would come home and take her ailing mother to the doctor. She never did. Now, 60-year-old Brijender is unable to tell his paralysed wife why. In Hathras’s Mandnai village, he…[Continue Reading...]

10 Celebrity Cults That Exist Today—and the Famous Actors Associated With Them

Published February 13, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged celebrities, cults, Hollylwood

Hollywood loves a redemption arc, but off-screen it often writes stranger scripts. Since the 1970s, when fringe movements began courting actors in their 30s searching for clarity, celebrity faith has doubled as PR strategy and personal therapy. Pop stars in…[Continue Reading...]

‘Utterly evil’: Louisiana pastor sentenced to seven years’ prison for molesting teen girl

Published February 12, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged Chalmette’s First Pentecostal church, criminal conviction, Louisiana, Milton Otto Martin III, pastor, sexual abuse

The Louisiana Pentecostal pastor who repeatedly molested a teenage girl told her that her “world would turn upside down” if she ever reported his crimes, she said in a statement on Wednesday in a suburban New Orleans court. Milton Otto…[Continue Reading...]

Coercive control victims speak out for campaign

Published February 12, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse controlling relationships, behavior, coercive control, survivor stories, UK

Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love, It's Abuse" campaign - using the words of Anne, Paul and…[Continue Reading...]