The sexual abuse trial of a former 2x2 Christian sect minister has been switched from a judge and jury trial, to a trial by judge alone at the request of the defence. Lee-Ann McChesney has pleaded not guilty to one…[Continue Reading...]
Sewage water continues to seep into a large puddle near the entrance of a purple-coloured school-turned-compound that housed members of a cult in the southwest Saskatchewan village of Richmound for the last two years. Although the "Kingdom of Canada" cult…[Continue Reading...]
The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult which claimed hundreds of lives has survived despite a major police operation. Two years ago, an investigation…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of Mexico-based evangelical megachurch La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges in a court in New York. Naasón Joaquín García, 56, is already serving a 16-year-sentence after he admitted…[Continue Reading...]
Former Japanese followers of the Unification Church voiced their anger and expressed their hope that the facts behind the alleged bribery by the church’s leader would be uncovered. A South Korean special prosecutor arrested Han Hak-ja , the leader of…[Continue Reading...]
A witness has described how controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie twisted Bible scripture to justify a mass starvation ritual that left scores dead in Shakahola, Kilifi County. During Tuesday’s court session, the witness testified that Mackenzie cited passages from the Book…[Continue Reading...]
Sewage water continues to seep into a large puddle near the entrance of a purple-coloured school-turned-compound that housed members of a cult in the southwest Saskatchewan village of Richmound for the last two years. Although the “Kingdom of Canada” cult…[Continue Reading...]
Liberty University, a power center for evangelical Christianity and one of the country’s largest educational institutions, claims it adheres to the highest ethical standards. But while students were forced to follow the school’s honor code called “The Liberty Way,” leaders…[Continue Reading...]
A bell rings. Men carrying thick bamboo poles as “rifles” with U.S.A. painted on their bare chests begin to march, in lockstep, toward a clearing in the forest. The man-made clearing is a rough opening meant to be a landing…[Continue Reading...]
The 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church was arrested in South Korea early Tuesday as investigators probe allegations that the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker. Hak Ja Han the widow…[Continue Reading...]
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