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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...]

Australia’s deadliest narcissists exposed in explosive new podcast

Published February 12, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, killers, narcissists

A series of murders that shocked the nation and chilling behavioural patterns hiding in plain sight form the heart of a gripping new 7NEWS true crime podcast, set to rewrite how we understand the country’s most dangerous offenders. Launching this…[Continue Reading...]

Who Is Paul Mackenzie? Inside the Doomsday Cult Horror as Kenyan Court Charges Him with 52 More Deaths

Published February 12, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cults, Good News International Church, Kenya, murders, Paul Mackenzie

Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan self-proclaimed preacher and doomsday cult leader, has been charged by a court in Kilifi County over 52 additional deaths discovered in the village of Kwa Binzaro. The charges come as part of an ongoing investigation into…[Continue Reading...]

Mackenzie, seven others charged with terrorism over 52 deaths at Kwa Binzaro in Kilifi

Published February 11, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cult leader, cults, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie

Shakahola massacre suspect Paul Nthenge Mackenzie was on Wednesday arraigned at the Shanzu Law Courts alongside seven co-accused to face terrorism-related charges connected to the deaths of 52 people at Kwa Binzaro in Kilifi County. The other accused persons are…[Continue Reading...]

Legal Expert Shares 4 Subtle Signs Of Coercive Control

Published February 11, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abusive controlling relationships, analysis, behaviors, coercive control

There were 49,557 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, according to domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid. This is an increase from 45,310 in the year ending March 2024.…[Continue Reading...]

Task force raids Rep. Chun Jae-soo office over suspected evidence shredding

Published February 11, 2026 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged bribery investigation, police raid, South Korea, Unification Church

The joint police-prosecution task force currently investigating alleged collusion with religious groups such as the Unification Church and Shincheonji searched the office of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Chun Jae-soo on suspicion of destroying criminal evidence. According to legal sources…[Continue Reading...]