Police have arrested a self-styled spiritual healer in the northern province of Lamphun for allegedly raping teenage boys who sought his “sin-removing” services. The 67-year-old suspect, identified only as Paisarn, has been remanded in police custody and is scheduled to…[Continue Reading...]
BANGKOK, May 20: One of Thailand's best-known faith healers has been arrested on rape and child sexual abuse charges, police said Wednesday, as investigators urged other potential victims to come forward. Buddhist-majority Thailand is a deeply superstitious country, where many…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Scientology’s bid to dismiss a harassment lawsuit from women who accused actor Danny Masterson of sexual assault was largely rejected by a California appeals court Tuesday. The bulk of the women’s stalking and intentional infliction of emotional…[Continue Reading...]
If you haven’t heard of Gloriavale yet, strap in because Paramount+’s new documentary, Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, aims to take audiences deep into the New Zealand commune that partly inspired The Handmaid’s Tale. The three-part series, which arrives next month,…[Continue Reading...]
The three-part documentary series “Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult” will debut June 1 on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. The remaining episodes will be available on subsequent Mondays. Directed and executive produced by…[Continue Reading...]
If you go on TikTok looking for information about Scientology, you’ll likely encounter a young man named Gunnar Scharf, leading impassioned tours of church buildings and holding holy texts aloft. Scharf has blue eyes, spiky dirty blonde hair, a trim…[Continue Reading...]
Below, Josh Owens shares five key insights from his new book, The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Machine. In 2013, in his early twenties, Josh dropped out of film school and moved halfway across the…[Continue Reading...]
A federal judge in Houston on Friday rejected Alex Jones' effort to keep Infowars under the umbrella of a federal bankruptcy court, as Jones fights to maintain control over the conspiracy-fueled news website he founded. Jones was attempting to reverse…[Continue Reading...]
Xavier Becerra is condemning the Church of Scientology after old reports and video surfaced of him speaking favorably of the organization during his tenure in Congress. Had he known what he knows now about the claims of coercive control, forced…[Continue Reading...]
Jesus Christ. Naruto. Gru and his minions. All raiding a building full of people in tight suit vests. No, this isn’t a fever dream, but rather an online trend where groups of teenagers film themselves running through Church of Scientology…[Continue Reading...]
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