PHOENIX — On Friday, "Doomsday Mom" and convicted killer Lori Vallow Daybell will be sentenced in Arizona for two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. One of those counts is for the attempted killing of her niece's ex-husband, Brandon…[Continue Reading...]
Reporting structures in cults can enable child abuse and undermine child safety systems, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has heard. Ex-members Ryan and Catherine Carey told the inquiry on July 24 that parents at Geelong Revival Centre reported abuse to cult…[Continue Reading...]
The widow of a man killed when followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 has warned that a son of the founder of the apocalyptic religious group intends to resurrect its…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- Eight individuals who are the children of followers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly the Unification Church, filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on July 24 seeking a total of about 320…[Continue Reading...]
Save for a few tourist vans headed to Malindi, the Malindi-Sala Gate road feels like a graveyard. Snaking through sleepy villages—Kakuyuni, Jilore, Kakoneni, Marikano, Pishimwenga, Baolala, Timboni, Chakama and Zowerani—the tarmac lies hauntingly silent, the journey marked by a sense…[Continue Reading...]
Following evidence that a high-ranking member of the Unification Church met with Jeon Seong-bae (a shaman who goes by the name “Geonjin”) to discuss enrolling church members in the People Power Party (PPP) before the party convention in 2023, a…[Continue Reading...]
A Sunday school teacher who was jailed for sexually abusing nine children was protected by the leader of his fundamentalist church, after parents reported the abuse to him instead of police, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has heard. Catherine and Ryan…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) has identified the second son of Shoko Asahara — the founder of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo cult — as the de facto head of Aleph, the group regarded as Aum’s successor, it announced Tuesday.…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — A Pasig court has denied televangelist Apollo Quiboloy’s bid for temporary liberty in the qualified trafficking cases against him, citing his role as the “central figure of authority” who subjected to sexual exploitation a minor who was…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — The prosecutor who obtained a conviction against Lori Vallow Daybell said in a new court filing that the judge should sentence her to life in prison. Vallow Daybell is scheduled to be sentenced in Arizona on Friday after…[Continue Reading...]
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