As part of its reforms the federal government wants to introduce a new aggravating offence aimed at adults who seek to radicalise and influence children. The Attorney General Michelle Rowland says since 2001, 120 people have been convicted of terrorism…[Continue Reading...]
A judge has given doctors permission to give a blood transfusion to a teenage Jehovah's Witness, should she need on following an operation. The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard how the 14-year-old girl had told medics that she did…[Continue Reading...]
Spanish police arrested five people running a group that charged hefty sums for rituals involving animal sacrifice and illicit drugs. The cult leader was jailed after followers required psychiatric treatment. Spanish National Police dismantled a group in the Canary Islands…[Continue Reading...]
Police investigating allegations that the Unification Church provided money and valuables to politicians summoned and questioned a key figure who managed the sect's funds for about 10 hours. Police were said to have focused on how the funds mobilized for…[Continue Reading...]
In 1915, a large mansion was built in Denver by a steel mill executive, but a few decades later, it was sold to a group that many consider a cult. The mansion, which sits at 975 East 7th Avenue in…[Continue Reading...]
Police is under investigation on the 22nd into the Unification Church over allegations of receiving money and valuables, summoning the sect's finance and accounting officials. The Korean National Police Agency's special task force on this day questioned two Unification Church…[Continue Reading...]
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) has agreed on the need to introduce an independent counsel to investigate allegations that the Unification Church lobbied and bribed politicians to influence policymaking processes. This is a welcome development. The ruling party…[Continue Reading...]
The opposition parties on Sunday settled the terms of a special counsel bill to look into a political funding scandal involving the Unification Church that has spilled over from the main opposition People Power Party into the ruling Democratic Party…[Continue Reading...]
Lindsay Allan is a legal scholar studying the state’s duty to protect victims of sexual abuse in cults. Her work examines how governments gain knowledge of systematic harm yet fail to act, especially in patriarchal religious systems, focusing on grooming,…[Continue Reading...]
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared before a special counsel team Saturday to undergo questioning as a suspect over corruption allegations linked to his wife, Kim Keon Hee. It marked the jailed former president's first appearance before special counsel Min…[Continue Reading...]
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