A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted Mahmud Usman, a commander of the proscribed Ansaru sect, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for terrorism-related offences. Usman, also known by his aliases Abu Bara’a, Abbas, or Mukhtar, pleaded…[Continue Reading...]
Romana Didulo and her followers set up camp nearly a month ago at a decommissioned school in the small village of Richmound, located two hours west of Swift Current. Tensions between the group and residents gradually built up until Didulo’s…[Continue Reading...]
Indian spiritual leader Osho’s communes drew thousands of seekers to India and the US, where children like Sarito Carroll endured neglect and sexual abuse under the guise of spiritual freedom. Carroll now recounts her childhood in a memoir and documentary…[Continue Reading...]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Authorities on Thursday announced another indictment related to the House of Prayer, a day after the church leader and seven others were rounded up. This latest indictment – of Bernadel Semexant, 35, of Hinesville and Savannah…[Continue Reading...]
The special counsel team led by Min Joong-ki, investigating various allegations involving Kim Keon-hee, was reported on the 11th to be conducting search and seizure operations at Unification Church-affiliated institutions in connection with suspicions of Unification Church members joining the…[Continue Reading...]
Less than two years after the Shakahola doomsday sect shocked Kenya and the world, another chilling discovery has emerged in the quiet coastal settlement of Kwa Binzaro. Beneath Kilifi County’s cashew and coconut groves, police unearthed dozens of shallow graves…[Continue Reading...]
ontroversial pastor David Jang's disciples are pursuing accreditation for a new college as the sect's flagship school, Olivet University—accused in lawsuits of racketeering and trafficking foreign students—faces the prospect of losing its degree-granting status. Great Commission University, an Indiana-based institution…[Continue Reading...]
It began as a custody dispute in rural Oklahoma, but it ended with two young mothers found dead in a freezer buried in a cow pasture. The shocking case, now tied to an anti-government religious group and a former local…[Continue Reading...]
Victims still haunted by Carmarthenshire sex abuse scandal WEST WALES paedophile cult leader Colin Batley, who was jailed in 2011 for a catalogue of horrific child sex crimes, has been recommended for transfer to an open prison by the Parole…[Continue Reading...]
Daybell, 57, was sentenced to death last June after being found guilty of killing his first wife Tammy and his second wife, "cult mom" Lori Vallow's children, Tylee, 17, and JJ, 7. He had raised five kids with Tammy before…[Continue Reading...]
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