Warren Jeffs called himself a prophet, but he was, in reality, a polygamist cult leader and a perpetrator of sexual abuse. As the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of Mormonism, Warren forced marriages…[Continue Reading...]
Scientology is weaker now than it’s been in decades. Membership has been in steep decline since its height in the 1990s, from around 100,000 members globally to around 20,000-30,000 today. Much of that’s due to the massive negative publicity against…[Continue Reading...]
Whether it's obsessively tracking your location or isolating you from your other mates, sometimes friends aren't just toxic, they're abusive. We're getting better at talking about coercive control in romantic relationships, but it happens among friends too. In fact, it…[Continue Reading...]
Agrowing body of research suggests that people are drawn into conspiracy theories not because they are gullible or irrational, but because of a powerful social force: community. A new five-year ethnographic study by researchers from the University of Bath and…[Continue Reading...]
Fla. News Network —Beneath the surface of Florida's sunny reputation lies a less familiar, darker history. One populated by unconventional communities, utopian experiments, and groups that many would label as cults. This aspect of Florida's past and present reveals much…[Continue Reading...]
A psychologist who specialises in cult groups has provided a fresh insight into the sovereign citizen belief system, after a member of the dangerous ideological sect allegedly shot and killed two police officers in rural Victoria. Freeman has displayed a…[Continue Reading...]
Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism of authorities who had vowed to crack down on extremist sects after hundreds of members of a doomsday cult died…[Continue Reading...]
Kim Keon Hee and her husband are in jail, with Yoon on trial for insurrection and other charges following his April ouster over a disastrous bid to impose martial law in December. The 52-year-old ex-first lady has been investigated over…[Continue Reading...]
(NewsNation) — Jenna Miscavige, the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, says the childhood she spent toiling for the church makes sense, at least to adherents of the religion. The former Scientologist described to “Banfield” how she was isolated at…[Continue Reading...]
When Richard Ehiemere was accused of links to a neo-Nazi paedophile cult, he blamed his older brother Barthimaus. Bart, as he is known to friends, was caught with hundreds of indecent images of young boys in a raid on their…[Continue Reading...]
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