A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison for harming the mental and physical health of his followers. Sergei Torop, a former traffic…[Continue Reading...]
For over 65 years, the Geelong Revival Center, an extremist Pentecostal network led by founder Noel Hollins, has faced accusations of being a cult. With Hollins’ death in 2024, the church remains under strict leadership, sparking calls for investigations under…[Continue Reading...]
Calls from the Church of Scientology for an order to ban protests outside its British headquarters in West Sussex have been recommended for refusal. Mid Sussex District Council's cabinet is due to make a decision on Monday about whether to…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell spent part of her 52nd birthday speaking with EastIdahoNews.com about a variety of topics, including her convicted crimes, her husband, the justice system and whether she would change anything that’s happened over the past six…[Continue Reading...]
LIZ Cameron, 32, is a health sector project manager and author. she lives in Canberra, Australia. “As I walked out of the bookshop, a smiling woman approached. She was a foreign student studying Australian culture, she explained, and asked if…[Continue Reading...]
Warren Jeffs is the incarcerated leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). He is currently serving a life sentence in Texas for two counts of sexual assault against a minor. He was ordered by a Utah…[Continue Reading...]
They started as hospital doctors. Now they claim viruses don’t exist, chemotherapy is poison, and childhood cancer stems from parental failure. Sam and Mark Bailey have become evangelists of a strange new health movement aiming to sow distrust in conventional…[Continue Reading...]
I don’t remember the first time I realized I was in a cult. Like most things in childhood, it felt normal—because I didn’t know anything else. I was born into it. My parents were devoted, and in our world, the…[Continue Reading...]
A revenue collector, simply identified as Emmanuel, has been shot dead by suspected cultists on Thursday in Benin. The victim, popularly known as ‘Meme’, a member of Professional Drivers on Wheels, was killed in what was suspected to be a…[Continue Reading...]
Harrison Hill was "gobsmacked" when he began talking to the source of inspiration for his forthcoming nonfiction debut — and that "astonishment" only grew as he kept researching the cult she recalled escaping from. In The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise…[Continue Reading...]
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