The Jehovah's Witnesses fought hard to avoid the scrutiny of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Now the inquiry report has found 'credible evidence' that child sex abuse occurred within the faith - and no evidence that…[Continue Reading...]
Over the decades, juries at the imposing crown court in Winchester, Hampshire, have heard all kinds of extraordinary stories. Few can have been quite as strange as the twisty tale of Hongchi Xiao, a Chinese-born banker turned “master” of alternative…[Continue Reading...]
Convicted polygamist Warren Jeffs, once a Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints leader (FLDS), is now in prison with no release date. Over the years, Jeffs and the FLDS church have become the subject of multiple true-crime documentaries for their controversial practices. As…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of texts between members of a faith-healing group in the week a young girl lay dying from her diabetic condition have been revealed in court. Fourteen members of the religious circle known as The Saints are on trial charged…[Continue Reading...]
Inspiration Plaza, the latest public art addition in Little Rock’s Riverfront Park, is striking. A 14-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a man and woman connected by a billowing sheet forms a self-supported canopy over a stone-tiled footpath. The canopy’s underside is…[Continue Reading...]
Effective conspiracy theories draw in believers by appearing to give a glimpse behind the curtain, of how the world really works, while preserving a sense that even in the modern technological era, there are still mysteries beyond most people’s understanding.…[Continue Reading...]
Ex-members and parents of devotees of the Shincheonji Church have hailed a council’s decision to ban its building from becoming a legal teaching base as a positive step towards shutting down the religious sect’s activities in Perth for good. Cambridge…[Continue Reading...]
Frank L Silva, also known as Frank DeSilva, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan and a convicted terrorist, has reportedly been meeting remotely with Irish far-right extremist groups to discuss and plan anti-immigration protests in Ireland.Silva was…[Continue Reading...]
Conspiracy theories about vaccinations may have contributed to a drop in the number of children being immunised in Scotland, according to a new study. Anti-vax sentiments are commonly spread on social media with ‘misinformation’ around the subject thought to be…[Continue Reading...]
Dancing For The Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult was one of Netflix’s surprise smash hits this year, with everybody (myself included) getting pretty damn invested. And now, one of the co-executive producers has addressed the question on all of our…[Continue Reading...]
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