The Sokoto State Police Command has recorded decisive breakthroughs in its sustained crackdown on crime, with the arrest of the leader of the notorious “Sai Malam” cult group and the exposure of a rape and abduction syndicate that preyed on…[Continue Reading...]
An Inland Empire “shaman” accused of sexually assaulting several young girls must stand trial on a dozen felony charges, a judge ruled Thursday. Ricardo Isaac Flores, 60, of Rialto was arrested last year following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.…[Continue Reading...]
Members of an ultra-Orthodox cult, led by convicted sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland, illegally entered the West Bank city of Nablus overnight between Thursday and Friday and rammed their car into a Palestinian, security officials said and footage showed. The…[Continue Reading...]
The Tokyo High Court has ordered a religious group widely known as the Unification Church to pay damages in a case involving a former follower who made large donations to the group. The court ruled that the group's solicitation of…[Continue Reading...]
The Fijian government "cannot interfere with investigations" in relation to allegations against an infamous Korean religious sect, which continues to expand if business footprint in the island nation, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says. This week, the international investigative journalism non-profit,…[Continue Reading...]
Police questioned jailed Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja on Wednesday over bribery allegations involving multiple politicians, officials said. Police have been investigating allegations that the church gave tens of millions of won and luxury gifts to former Oceans Minister Chun…[Continue Reading...]
Disturbing details have emerged regarding the late patriarch of an intergenerational incestuous family in Australia that lived in squalid conditions in an isolated camp. Tim Colt was the patriarch and alleged perpetrator of the sexual assault of many of his…[Continue Reading...]
Jayapura, Jubi – The U.S government is threatening to downgrade Fiji to the lowest possible ranking on its global human trafficking index over its failure to clamp down on a powerful doomsday cult purportedly involved in “transnational organized crime,” a…[Continue Reading...]
The leaders and two members of an alleged cult-like religious organization in Southern California were charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a 4-year-old boy and a missing 40-year-old man. The Hemet-based religious group called “His Way Spirit…[Continue Reading...]
Han Hak-ja, the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church and widow of its founder Moon Sun-myung, is back in the headlines. She faces a major bribery and lobbying scandal in Korea, while her movement confronts a historic court-ordered dissolution in…[Continue Reading...]
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