The second comprehensive special counsel, investigating remaining cases of the third special counsels (insurrection, Kim Keon-hee, and deceased Marines), launched a criminal investigation into the National Police Agency on the 20th regarding suspicions of covering up the investigation into the…[Continue Reading...]
The Department of Social Development (DSD) in KwaZulu-Natal has finally intervened in the controversial religious sect in Dabangu village, KwaMaphumulo, which has been in the news for abandoning a conventional lifestyle in favour of subsistence farming and perpetual worship. The…[Continue Reading...]
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced 11 Boko Haram members to various jail terms ranging from 40 to 60 years. They were sentenced for offences under the Terrorism (Prohibition and Prevention) Act. Justice Egwuatu, however,…[Continue Reading...]
OnThisDay: On April 19, 1993, after a 51-day standoff with FBI, a fire broke out at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of about 80 members, including leader David Koresh, and over 20 children. See…[Continue Reading...]
Looking back at how cults operate, it doesn’t seem as surprising how they ended, because from the beginning, the leaders showed unusual behavior and questionable practices. Although cults don’t always act the same way, there’s definitely a pattern among the…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix‘s Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026) is a four-part documentary series that captured the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to convicted child abuser Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). If you thought…[Continue Reading...]
Naasón Joaquín, leader of the La Luz del Mundo evangelical church, is serving a sentence in the United States for child sexual abuse and faces new federal charges for organized crime, sex trafficking, and child pornography. The U.S. justice system…[Continue Reading...]
There was silence as a Mombasa court on Tuesday heard chilling accounts of how former followers of cult leader Paul Mackenzie were indoctrinated and the subsequent deaths of their loved ones. The Kwa Binzaro deaths took centre stage in proceedings…[Continue Reading...]
OROVILLE, Calif. — A religious cult leader from Oroville was supposed to be sentenced in a Butte County courtroom on Tuesday, but the date was pushed. Sansue Bee Vang was found guilty in February by a jury of eight counts…[Continue Reading...]
And that led me to write again. I began a new one-person musical comedy show called Cl*t Cult, about surviving the sexual wellness cult OneTaste, which I just performed at the New York Fringe, earlier this month. I reclaimed the…[Continue Reading...]
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