The pre-arrest interrogation of former Unification Church Deputy Minister Yoon Young-ho, requested by the special prosecutor, will be held on the 30th. Yoon is accused of delivering a luxury handbag to Kim Keon-hee. According to the legal community on the…[Continue Reading...]
Charismatic preacher Noel Stanton, once a humble Baptist minister, built a powerful religious empire that masked decades of horrific abuse under the banner of the Jesus Army. Born on Christmas Day in 1926, Stanton began his career as a conventional…[Continue Reading...]
Barbed wire once kept secrets buried at Villa Baviera. Now, Chile’s government plans to open the gates—to schoolchildren, archivists, and survivors—converting the site of dictatorship-era torture into a public reckoning with overlapping traumas that still echo across generations. From Bavarian…[Continue Reading...]
It’s mid-morning at Humble Chicken 3.0, the chef Angelo Sato’s 13-seat, two-Michelin-star restaurant in Soho, London. Sato, heavily tattooed and with a mohican, is wearing chef’s clogs and an apron over shorts and a vest. His team of four sous-chefs…[Continue Reading...]
A small Christian commune that aspired to create heaven on Earth grew to become a cult in which sexual and physical abuse was perpetuated in plain sight. The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical…[Continue Reading...]
A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI. Carla Stagno was slapped with a nine-year stretch for…[Continue Reading...]
Nobody wants to be in a cult. That includes the people who are in cults – which is why they tend to claim they’re nothing of the sort. Founded in 1970s Northamptonshire by lay pastor and self-anointed prophet Noel Stanton,…[Continue Reading...]
In the 2000s, Tory Magoo (@torychristman44) decided that she wanted to get out of Scientology after being in the cult for 30 years. Now, she’s on TikTok telling the story of how she managed to escape from Scientology. A friend…[Continue Reading...]
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) conducted a fact-finding visit to the site of an alleged fasting-to-death cult, where one body and two human remains were recently recovered. The team that was led by the Director in charge…[Continue Reading...]
IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour. Philippa was only six when her parents joined…[Continue Reading...]
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