HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed…[Continue Reading...]
(NewsNation) — An ex-Mormon is speaking out about the culture of “public shaming” after she was punished by the Mormon church for being raped. Kristjana Hillberg was raped at 18 years old while she was away at college. When she…[Continue Reading...]
SLATER SLATER SCHULMAN LLP ATTORNEYS AT LAW CONTACT: MACKENZIE JOHNSON (310) 341-2086 MJOHNSON@SSSFIRM.COM MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2023 FORMER MALE MEMBERS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF FRIENDS, A HIGH CONTROL GROUP (A.K.A. CULT) LED BY ROBERT EARL BURTON,…[Continue Reading...]
Bijou Phillips partied with the Hiltons while estranged husband Danny Masterson has been serving his 30 year sentence for a rape conviction. The 43-year-old actress and model - who was seen for the first time after Masterson was expelled from…[Continue Reading...]
Canadian prodco Sphere Media (Sort Of) has secured the rights to adapt the book Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas, into a feature documentary. Authored by investigative journalists John Hubner and Lindsey Gruson, it exposes a…[Continue Reading...]
Granted, it’s a darkness that seems to somewhat brighten when the LGBTQ+ country artist delivers songs such as the bright and bubbly "Back to Me" and the fun and flirty "Drunk Girls." But over the course of her new single…[Continue Reading...]
The HBO documentary Love Has Won, released on November 13, 2023, tells the story of the life and death of ”Mother God” cult leader Amy Carlson, and how the ordinary Oregon woman came to believe, and convince others, that she…[Continue Reading...]
Born in Synanon is the story of Cassidy Arkin’s history with California’s Synanon cult—or as she describes it in footage from 2001, “alternative community.” Arkin is not just the subject of director Geeta Gandbhir’s four-part Paramount+ docuseries (Dec. 12) but…[Continue Reading...]
Author Steven Hassan, who writes and speaks about groups called “cults,” has a personal history of cult involvement. Hassan was in the Unification Church (“Moonies”) founded by Sun Myung Moon for two years in the 1970s. And his origin story…[Continue Reading...]
A Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) pastor was seen reciting what looked like so-called "strong prayers" to rid the boy of a demon. BBC Panorama was also told by a gay ex-member he was given "strong prayers"…[Continue Reading...]
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