Eighty-year-old Jeong Myeong-seok, leader of controversial religious cult Christian Gospel Mission (JMS), has been indicted again on a quasi-rape charge separate from the crimes that have him currently serving his 17-year prison sentence. The Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office said Monday…[Continue Reading...]
Carolyne Odour has told the BBC she desperately fears for fate of her two young sons who went missing two months ago with their father - a follower of the teachings of a notorious starvation cult leader. Ms Odour says…[Continue Reading...]
30th August 2025 – (Hong Kong) Maple Yip, wife of Hong Kong artist Alex Fong, has shared her harrowing experience of being brainwashed by a cult in her newly released Korean-language autobiography. This follows her previous appearance in the Netflix…[Continue Reading...]
What you need to know: The Shakahola massacre happened when controversial preacher Mackenzie Nthenge and his team caused more than 450 members of his Good News International Church to starve to death in Kilifi County. Mackenzie is accused of brainwashing…[Continue Reading...]
Kenya’s starvation cult controversy has escalated, drawing heavy criticism toward the government’s handling of the crisis. At least 11 suspects have been arrested in connection with the deadly cult activities, as investigations continue into mass deaths linked to forced starvation.…[Continue Reading...]
Yisrael Amir was only 14-years-old when he was snatched from Israel to Guatemala by his father using forged passports to live among an extremist Jewish cult. The teenager and his five siblings were promised that their new life in Central…[Continue Reading...]
Warren Jeffs called himself a prophet, but he was, in reality, a polygamist cult leader and a perpetrator of sexual abuse. As the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of Mormonism, Warren forced marriages…[Continue Reading...]
Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism of authorities who had vowed to crack down on extremist sects after hundreds of members of a doomsday cult died…[Continue Reading...]
When Richard Ehiemere was accused of links to a neo-Nazi paedophile cult, he blamed his older brother Barthimaus. Bart, as he is known to friends, was caught with hundreds of indecent images of young boys in a raid on their…[Continue Reading...]
Two weeks after the leaders of a cult-like group in the Inland Empire were arrested, police have reopened an investigation into the death of a 4-year-old boy who had been placed in their custody. On Thursday, the Colton Police Department…[Continue Reading...]
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