WASHINGTON– Today, a judge ordered the Proud Boys and several of its leaders to pay more than $1 million for a racially-motivated attack on the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in December 2020. The Superior Court for the District…[Continue Reading...]
A federal judge has awarded $152 million in damages to ex-members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints over abuses they suffered while in the Utah-based polygamous faith. In a judgment issued late Thursday, U.S. District Court…[Continue Reading...]
After nine years on the hit series The King of Queens, co-stars Leah Remini and Kevin James had gone through a lot of things together, but joining the same religion wasn't one of them. Remini was a Scientologist for the…[Continue Reading...]
Izzy Posen grew up in London’s Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, receiving the bare minimum of secular education in an illegal school that still practiced corporal punishment. Even with the strictures of this ultra insular community, he still managed to develop…[Continue Reading...]
Polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs' 65th wife has detailed the horrific mental and sexual abuse that she endured inside his extremist Mormon sect - as well as the dramatic moment that she climbed through a window and escaped after years of…[Continue Reading...]
At a protest in Oxford on Feb. 18, one placard said “THE 15-MINUTE WEF GHETTOS ARE NOT ABOUT CLIMATE. IT’S ABOUT TYRANICAL CONTROL.” Others went further and said the plan was comparable to Nazi “concentration camps’’ and the Warsaw Ghetto,…[Continue Reading...]
A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]
A majority of Japanese universities bolstered measures against cults recruiting on campus after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's fatal shooting a year ago added to concerns that students could be easy targets, a Kyodo News survey shows. Of the 50…[Continue Reading...]
People who experience anger more frequently are “more likely” to believe conspiracy theories than others, according to new research. In a report published in the Journal of Research in Personality, researchers from Australia and Poland suggested that individuals who are…[Continue Reading...]
The case of Shelly Miscavige has raised flags among the public and Hollywood elite alike. The wife of David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, hasn’t been seen in public since 2007. Shelly and David married in 1982…[Continue Reading...]
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