Vulnerable young Australians are being targeted and recruited into extremist organisations. Sometimes, adult recruiters use grooming and coercion. Young people are seen as easy targets because they are looking for a place to belong, rather than holding deep-seated ideological beliefs.…[Continue Reading...]
Dr James Dobson, a prominent and influential evangelical leader who advised four US presidents, has died aged 89. Dobson was a fixture in conservative US politics for decades and most recently served on Donald Trump's advisory board for evangelical affairs.…[Continue Reading...]
Los Angeles, California - Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, recently went viral as she launched a TikTok account to recount her experiences growing up in the church. Last week, Jenna shared her very first video…[Continue Reading...]
ORLEANS — Known for its grand church just steps away from Cape Cod Bay, the Community of Jesus (COJ), a small, tight-knit religious commune, has grown since its founding as a Bible study collective in the 1970s to include a…[Continue Reading...]
While children used to do most of their socialization in the real world, nowadays, much of their daily communication happens online through games like Roblox. This isn’t inherently a good or a bad thing. However, if the parents allowing their…[Continue Reading...]
Following the popularity of the jaw-dropping documentary focusing on the new-age religion Love Has Won, plenty of people have been left asking the same question. Where are the members now? Cult members who manage to escape often come forward with…[Continue Reading...]
This is what happened to 'Father God', the former partner of Love Has Won cult leader Amy Carlson. In November 2023, HBO released an absolutely wild docuseries titled Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, which followed the life…[Continue Reading...]
A former priest accused of abusing members of a "cult-like" church group he led has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women. Chris Brain, 68, was head of the Nine O'Clock Service (NOS), an influential…[Continue Reading...]
About a week ago, the Levy family — a mother, stepfather, and nine children — landed in Israel after years inside the extremist ultra-Orthodox cult "Lev Tahor" ("Pure Heart") in Guatemala. Behind their rescue stood two of the children, Mendy…[Continue Reading...]
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has dismissed one of two sexual abuse convictions against a former Aroostook County Jehovah’s Witness elder, and asked for him to be resentenced on the other count. Ernest Fyans, a former elder for Kingdom Hall…[Continue Reading...]
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