Janet Z, 32, grew up in a a break-off group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Utah. She tells her story over on TikTok. A woman who grew up in a polygamous "cult" with 44…[Continue Reading...]
Life Could Be a Dream follows Sarah, who makes a courageous decision to leave a marriage shadowed by coercive control, taking her 13-year-old son with her. Director Jasmin Tarasin wanted to shine a light on coercive control and help people…[Continue Reading...]
SEATTLE — Seattle police said protesters broke into the Church of Scientology of Washington State on Saturday during a demonstration tied to an online trend. The trend started in April, after social media users started posting videos of themselves entering…[Continue Reading...]
After nearly eight years of legal proceedings, the Kwara State High Court has convicted a cult leader, BolaKale Bayero, alongside five others. They were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each for offences linked to cultism and related criminal activities. The…[Continue Reading...]
There’s a particular kind of silence that happens in the parking lot after a mandatory all-hands meeting. You’re sitting in your car, keys in the ignition, replaying something the CEO said about “family” and “sacrifice” and “those who don’t get…[Continue Reading...]
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian man who pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Jewish children in New York with poisoned candy, will be sentenced tomorrow morning in Brooklyn federal court. Chkhikvishvili led an online neo-Nazi group called the Maniac Murder Cult…[Continue Reading...]
A man has been banned from a town after raids on the headquarters of a religious sect last month. Sajid Khokhar, 48, was the eleventh person arrested after raids on the former Crewe orphanage used as a compound by the…[Continue Reading...]
While believing they were in a religious war, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell killed her younger children and his ex-wife in a series of slayings dubbed "The Doomsday Murders." The couple first met in October 2018 at a religious conference…[Continue Reading...]
Three teenage boys are facing hate crime and burglary charges after police say they broke into Seattle’s Church of Scientology on Saturday, in what police believe was part of a viral social media challenge to “speed run” through the famously…[Continue Reading...]
Taipei, May 12 (CNA) The Taipei District Court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at the meeting place of a Buddhist group in the city's Daan District in 2024.…[Continue Reading...]
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