) — Three members of the extremist Jewish Lev Tahor religious cult were convicted of kidnapping two children by a New York court on Wednesday.Brothers Yoil Weingarten, Yakov Weingarten and Shmiel Weingarten were convicted of child exploitation and kidnapping for…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court has made orders allowing a hospital to give a blood transfusion, if necessary, to a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The order was made by Mr Justice Tony O'Connor, who said that he accepted that the patient's…[Continue Reading...]
India Oxenberg is expecting a baby girl with husband Patrick D’Ignazio, and she’s keenly aware of the responsibilities of raising a daughter. “I thought it was gonna be a boy for some reason. When I found out it was a…[Continue Reading...]
Attorneys for Scientology leader David Miscavige, a co-defendant in Leah Remini's lawsuit against the church, have filed court papers seeking the removal of the current judge overseeing the case. The court papers brought Tuesday by Miscavige's lawyers cite a section…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Less than two years after his arrest outside of Flagstaff, the polygamist leader Samuel Bateman is expected to take a plea deal in federal court on April 1. New records filed in court on Wednesday show that Bateman…[Continue Reading...]
An infamous cult leader known as "Black Jesus", who was suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a remote Papua New Guinea village, reports said Friday. Steven Tari, a convicted rapist, had been on the run since escaping…[Continue Reading...]
There’s long been a national fascination with cults, making them fertile ground for books and documentaries. Gloversville native Susan Ashline knows this well. The Emmy-nominated journalist extensively covered the Utica-area Word of Life Christian Church cult in her 2019 book…[Continue Reading...]
CATHERINE COLDSTREAM says that she is staggered by the media interest in her memoir, Cloistered: My years as a nun. “People used to glaze over when I said I’m writing about my time as a nun,” she says. But the book is…[Continue Reading...]
The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult. “I did not believe to see my people the…[Continue Reading...]
Over the course of 70 years, one religious organization has amassed massive quantities of private land in Florida. Boasting a vast portfolio, spanning 678,000 acres throughout the state, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the…[Continue Reading...]
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