Eight years after a deadly Toronto attack brought the "incel" movement into the public spotlight, reports have again bought concerns about the ideology following Monday’s deadly shooting in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood. The incident left a Montreal police officer and a…[Continue Reading...]
The founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmainstream religious sect, attended a court hearing Wednesday on his potential arrest over allegations he forced followers to join the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) ahead of elections in 2021…[Continue Reading...]
Police this morning detained several residents of Yavne’el in northern Israel on suspicion of secretly marrying dozens of minors to one another, a practice law enforcement believes has been ongoing for years in the northern town. Yavne’el’s Breslov sect has…[Continue Reading...]
In a deeply emotional and chilling courtroom testimony that laid bare the generational devastation of the Shakahola massacre, Dan Mackenzie, the son of notorious cult leader Paul Mackenzie, publicly pleaded with the judiciary to intervene and rescue his siblings from…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court on Tuesday conducted a rare on-site inspection of locations linked to the Shakahola massacre, with suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie and seven co-accused persons taken to Malindi to help the court understand how followers were allegedly recruited,…[Continue Reading...]
Across Africa, pastors and lay Christians who would love to attend Bible school but can’t afford to do so are being approached, and seemingly befriended, by strangers offering them the chance to do so for free. An aggressive missionary cult…[Continue Reading...]
It appears Tulsi Gabbard, the former progressive congresswoman, surfer, and ex-member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, might have more skeletons in her closet than any of her constituents realized. Few politicians have undergone the ideological transformation Gabbard has, and a…[Continue Reading...]
CHUBBUCK — A former church leader is expected to plead guilty to allegations of giving children naked massages in exchange for getting an amended charge that would not require him to register as a sex offender. Virgil Larson, 47, was…[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY- (June 22, 2026) – Mormon Stories Podcast and the Open Stories Foundation today filed their response (link here) to a lawsuit brought by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arguing that The Church is attempting…[Continue Reading...]
The Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings ordering the dissolution of the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, rejecting a special appeal filed by the organization. In the ruling dated Monday, the court’s Third Petty Bench, presided…[Continue Reading...]
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