A senior religious leader has told a Mombasa court that controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie manipulated Bible teachings to deceive his followers, leading them into extreme and harmful beliefs. The Chief Executive Officer of the Coast Interfaith Council of Clerics, Dr…[Continue Reading...]
State agencies yesterday started to contact the families whose loved ones died in the Shakahola cult to collect bodies from Malindi Sub County Hospital mortuary for burial. However, some of the families contacted said they were yet to decide whether…[Continue Reading...]
Pick Any Door, Just Know He Built the House “She wanted to stay, she could have left so many times!”—These are the claims legal analyst Bernarda Villalona quoted while covering Ventura’s case for Eyewitness News, not representing her own view,…[Continue Reading...]
The tragedy of a former prime minister being shot with a homemade gun while giving a campaign speech was the catalyst to focus on issues that led up to the slaying. These include the relationship between politicians and a religious…[Continue Reading...]
The trial for Yoon Youngho, the former head of the Unification Church's global headquarters, who was indicted and detained on charges of delivering money and valuables to First Lady Kim Keonhee along with lobbying related to issues within the Unification…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit roundly rejected former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s request to have three lower court rulings overturned. The ruling was released Monday morning, less than a…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial, finding that a “mountain of evidence” substantiated the government’s charges of child sexual exploitation and pornography predicate acts and his…[Continue Reading...]
Questions have been raised about whether a €9m residential drug rehabilitation centre linked to the Church of Scientology will ever open its doors, following major opposition from the local community. The controversial drug facility at Ballivor, Co Meath, remains unopened,…[Continue Reading...]
SWANTON — Tamara Mathieu starts all of her TikTok videos with a version of this introduction: “I’m a cult survivor. I lived for 14 years in the religious group called the Twelve Tribes, and I share videos about things that…[Continue Reading...]
Arizona is in the midst of the worst measles outbreak it has seen in decades. Cases are mounting. As of this week, they're up to 123 in the area around the northern Arizona town of Colorado City and it's Utah…[Continue Reading...]
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