They were spared from the bloody Hamas attack on October 7 and they are exempt from military service. Yet some ultra-Orthodox Jews have chosen to renounce that controversial privilege and join the Israeli army. Dozens gathered outside a recruitment office…[Continue Reading...]
Regional New South Wales health officials have won a court order authorising them to give a blood transfusion to a Jehovah's Witness toddler if needed in surgery. The Supreme Court has been told the girl, three, who can only be referred to…[Continue Reading...]
PHILADELPHIA (October 23, 2023) – The District Attorney’s Special Investigations Unit on Monday announced that it had secured the convictions of a former Philadelphia Police officer and a former Catholic priest in separate prosecutions alleging child sexual abuse and assault.…[Continue Reading...]
In the case related to the "religious marriage" of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom…[Continue Reading...]
Ebonyi State Police command has confirmed the arrest of several notable persons and youths over alleged involvement in cult clashes in the State. DAILY POST reports that two cult rival groups clashed recently at Nkwuagu area of the state, resulting…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was raised in an incestuous polygamous cult has candidly laid bare the horrific abuse she endured at the hands of her own husband. Shanell Snow Derieux appeared on a recent episode of the Cults To Consciousness podcast alongside host Shelise…[Continue Reading...]
At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon. But what if is isn't? A 2014 study by Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded its preliminary investigation on the criminal complaints filed against 13 members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI), an alleged cult in Surigao del Norte. DOJ Undersecretary Mico Clavano said…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — Members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) have admitted to diverting government aid meant for indigent senior citizens and beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to fund the group. They made the admissions during…[Continue Reading...]
An inquiry into a suspected cult leader accused of inciting at least 428 of his followers to starve themselves to death, has pointed to "failures" in Kenya's security and criminal justice systems, according to a report seen by AFP on…[Continue Reading...]
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