While plenty of people are praising Jinger Duggar for leaving her 19 Kids and Counting family's uber strict religious sect behind, there are a few quiet murmurs about just how much freedom she's found with husband Jeremy Vuolo. In fact,…[Continue Reading...]
Two suspected members of Aiye and Eiye confraternities were killed at the weekend while many sustained machete cuts in a renewed war between the rival cult gangs in the Ijanikin area of Lagos. The clash almost grounded commercial activities and…[Continue Reading...]
You may be familiar with the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who orchestrated a mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of hopping on a spaceship to embark on a new life. But before the traumatic event, some of the cult…[Continue Reading...]
According to Scientology hope for humanity comes from submitting to "spiritual counseling" (aka "auditing") while clutching the cans connected to what Scientologists call the "E-Meter, which is a galvanic response measuring apparatus, part of what is commonly called a "lie…[Continue Reading...]
A missing aristocrat who is on the run with her rapist partner and newborn baby may have been brainwashed at a Nigerian church where “disciples” were allegedly abused by the group’s self-proclaimed prophet. Constance Marten, who has been missing with…[Continue Reading...]
Fiji’s newly elected government has launched a probe into a South Korean doomsday sect, after an OCCRP investigation exposed how the religious group had come to be a dominating force in the Pacific nation’s economy. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka told…[Continue Reading...]
EXCLUSIVE: MetFilm Sales has acquired world rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Gloriavale: New Zealand’s Secret Cult, Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth’s feature doc about a notorious kiwi religious cult. MetFilm will shop the doc to international buyers at…[Continue Reading...]
As the trial of NXIVM mastermind Keith Raniere proves, the line between self-help and cult-hood can be a tricky one to parse, as well as a scary one to contend with if left unchecked. In her book Don’t Call it…[Continue Reading...]
Criminals suspected be members of Iceland cult groups have abducted and raped one Mrs. Chigbewejim Lawyer to death few hours after she was abducted from her Abarikpo community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The mother of two…[Continue Reading...]
It didn’t get a lot of attention, but back in November, a candidate representing one of the country’s most successful homegrown fascist movements got a little over 25,000 votes in her bid for Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat. This was Diane…[Continue Reading...]
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