This time last year, Karim Mahmoud, a 25-year-old engineering student from Cairo, Egypt, was among the hundreds of thousands of young men around the world who counted themselves diehard fans of Andrew Tate. He swallowed Tate’s hyper-capitalist, misogynistic ideology wholesale,…[Continue Reading...]
Kenya's director of public prosecutions on Tuesday ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty and child torture, among other crimes, over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the…[Continue Reading...]
Last week, after underground tunnels were discovered near the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Crown Heights and attempts by synagogue officials to perform repairs were prevented by a group of yeshiva students, a mini-riot broke out after police showed up to restore…[Continue Reading...]
Akimi, a pseudonym for a woman in her 40s, says she noticed her mother's personality changing as the coronavirus pandemic went on. Her mother lives in a different city and, initially, would send advice about disinfecting and offering to send…[Continue Reading...]
Conspiracy theories have occurred in society for centuries, but they have gained increased prominence in our contemporary culture, fueled by the unease of an anxious world. In the high-speed information exchange and social media bubble, these theories find fertile ground…[Continue Reading...]
TB Joshua, the Oprah of evangelism, was a mega prophet who inspired thousands of followers from across the world to visit his church in Lagos, Nigeria, in the hope of salvation. Before his death in 2021, the celebrated pastor was…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan cult leader is to be charged with murder and terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 people found in mass graves, prosecutors say. Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April after the discovery of hundreds of bodies, some…[Continue Reading...]
The mothers of two missing US women who are believed to have taken their young children and joined a cult run by a convicted child molester, have appealed to them, five months after they disappeared. Police in St Louis, Missouri,…[Continue Reading...]
Almost a century stands between the settlement of Mormon pioneers in Utah in 1847 and the opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in California in 1940. The two events seem world's apart, yet have somehow interwoven to bring you a…[Continue Reading...]
Amy Carlson's followers would say she ascended. But in no uncertain terms, the 45-year-old mother of three was dead. And she had been dead for 13 days when sheriff's deputies found her body on April 29, 2021, at the residence that served…[Continue Reading...]
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