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Pentagon revises religious classifications amid backlash from LDS Church

Published June 9, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Mormons Tagged chaplain categories, Christians, LDS, Mormon Church, Pentagon

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has revamped a list of religious faiths and traditions it uses to provide services to military members after Mormon Republican lawmakers blasted the agency for not classifying the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as…[Continue Reading...]

Clearwater set to hand downtown street over to Scientologists for ‘flagship venue’

Published June 9, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clearwater, development, Florida, real esstate, Scientologists, Scientology

With a 3-2 Clearwater City Council vote approving a street handover, the Church of Scientology's Flag Services Organization won a tentative victory in its downtown expansion efforts. The Church of Scientology’s "spiritual headquarters" in the heart of downtown Clearwater may…[Continue Reading...]

Debbii Dawson Turns Cult Experience Into Captivating New Single ‘Kool Aid’

Published June 9, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Debbi Dawson, survivor story

Rising pop star Debbii Dawson has shared her striking new single Kool Aid, offering another compelling preview of her forthcoming EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone?, due for release on 26 June via RCA Records. Blending theatrical pop…[Continue Reading...]

LA Woman Goes to an Event Looking for Opportunities as an Artist, Then Finds Out She is Being Pulled Into a Cult: ‘All Money Ain’t Good Money’

Published June 9, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Los Angeles, personal story, recruitment

Sometimes, desperation can lead people into trouble. This isn’t to say that desperation is a negative trait, because it’s something you genuinely feel at a specific moment due to your circumstances. For example, when I was in school, I was…[Continue Reading...]

FTC Sues Amare Global Over Health and Income Claims

Published June 8, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Amare Global Holdings Inc., KFTC, lawsuit, multi-level marketing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Amare Global Holdings Inc., its chief executive officer, a founding distributor, and the company’s former chief science officer, alleging the multilevel marketing company falsely promoted dietary supplements as…[Continue Reading...]

Defense Dept. excludes Latter-day Saints from ‘Christian’ category

Published June 7, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons Tagged Jehovah's Witnesses, LDS, Mormon Church, Pentagon, US Military

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Defense Department slashed its religious designations list from over 200 choices to only 31 — a major reduction in the number of religious affiliations it officially recognizes. In doing so, the department reclassified The…[Continue Reading...]

Art critic who died in Brazil hotel was ‘forced to eat her own vomit’ at hellhole Baptist boarding school

Published June 7, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Missouri, Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy

The art critic who died surrounded by pills and a liquor bottle in a Brazilian hotel room was traumatized from her time in a hellish boarding school where she was forced to eat her own vomit during stomach-churning humiliation rituals.…[Continue Reading...]

AG agrees to charge criminal monks under lay names if disrobed by sects

Published June 7, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged Buddhist monks, sexual abuse allegations, Sri Lanka

Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe has agreed to file charges against Buddhist monks arrested over various crimes under the names listed on their birth certificates, provided the respective sect (nikaya) of such monks take steps to disrobe them. The agreement between…[Continue Reading...]

Dramatic thriller “The Leader” portrays the infamous Heaven’s Gate cult of the ‘90s and leaves no jaw unslacked. [Tribeca]

Published June 7, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, feature film, Heaven's Gate, Marshall Applewhite, Movie

There is a delicacy and there is a purpose to making a movie that tells the story of a cult, especially when telling the story of Heaven’s Gate, the cult that is responsible for the highest casualty rate by mass…[Continue Reading...]