Bestselling author and entrepreneur Grant Cardone recently addressed his substantial donations—estimated at around $18 million—to the Church of Scientology, firmly rejecting claims that the organization is a cult. In a candid interview, Cardone emphasized that Scientology differs vastly from typical…[Continue Reading...]
For more than five decades, Australian cult The Family has sparked both fascination and controversy. Founded in the early 1960s by yoga instructor turned spiritual guru Anne Hamilton-Byrne, this New Age group – predominately based in and around Melbourne’s Dandenong…[Continue Reading...]
The Gamut Podcast Network’s flagship true crime series American Nightmares returns February 3 with its most unsettling season yet: Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult, a firsthand account of a cult that thrived for years behind the appearance…[Continue Reading...]
Singer Joy Villa made a bold fashion statement amid her break from the Church of Scientology - with the message 'Scientology Kills' splashed across her chest - as she walked the red carpet at the 68th Grammys in Los Angeles…[Continue Reading...]
Ruwan Meepagala’s first involvement with an international sex cult began with a Ted Talk. Lacking in confidence from a young age, he’d become hooked on self-improvement videos online, watching them two or three times a day while eating lunch or…[Continue Reading...]
A South Korean fringe religious organisation, accused of brainwashing members, is targeting pastors in order to recruit entire Australian congregations, a former member says. Shincheonji, which has been described as an "apocalyptic Christian cult" whose members will be saved from…[Continue Reading...]
Researching for a new book is one of my favourite parts of the creative process. But, writer beware, it’s also a danger zone. I’ve lost weeks only to realise I haven’t written a word. I allow myself one month for…[Continue Reading...]
A Spanish court has rejected an appeal by a group of excommunicated nuns who joined a sect and were ordered to leave their convent, confirming their eviction, an archbishopric said on Friday. Nine nuns from the Order of Saint Clare…[Continue Reading...]
A DOOMSDAY cult behind a deadly chemical attack is recruiting a new generation of followers – with fears of “indiscriminate mass murder”. Aum Shinrikyo released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995 – in the country’s most catastrophic attack…[Continue Reading...]
Yun Young-ho, former world head of the Unification Church, who is accused of offering bribes to former first lady Kim Keon-hee, the spouse of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Kweon Seong-dong, a member of the People Power Party, was sentenced…[Continue Reading...]
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