An Iraqi criminal court in Dhi Qar province convicted a senior figure in the banned “Qurban” group for inciting children to take their own lives, as judges handed down multiple life sentences in separate murder cases, a security source told…[Continue Reading...]
SWIFT CURRENT - The leader of a cult that bedevilled residents of a Saskatchewan village for two years is no longer facing charges, disappointing and angering the mayor. Romana Didulo, head of the so-called Kingdom of Canada, had been charged…[Continue Reading...]
Sunday, March 19, 1995, I am inside a Tokyo subway station. No one except the perpetrators themselves knows what horrific event will unfold here around 8 a.m. the next day. The safety and peace of the world are often in…[Continue Reading...]
When cult expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband, Tolga Katas, moved to Short Creek, Utah, they planned to support a fractured community still reeling from the imprisonment of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]
Dawn broke over Juja on Monday with the sharp, mechanical thud of police boots against a perimeter fence, signaling the end of a secretive religious operation that had long troubled local authorities. The silence of the morning in Kiambu County…[Continue Reading...]
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a “wanted” suspected cult leader, identified as Akinwale Tomiwa, who had been on the command’s watchlist for alleged cult-related activities in Owo Local Government Area. Tomiwa, reportedly the leader of the notorious Eiye…[Continue Reading...]
Rain slicked the corrugated iron roofs in the quiet outskirts of Juja as the police tactical team breached the perimeter of what was supposed to be a place of prayer. Inside, they found no hymns of worship, but a sterile,…[Continue Reading...]
AFTER her mother had joined a yoga class, 12-year-old Agnes was eager to go along, too. The totalitarian regime of Communist Romania had recently toppled and many young people were in search of a spiritualism that they had been denied…[Continue Reading...]
The survivor of a Yoga cult is speaking about her horrific experience in a new documentary three years after the cult’s leader was arrested. Gregorian Bivolaru ran the ‘Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute’, a cult that would initially…[Continue Reading...]
A Maryland federal judge on Thursday ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine competency to stand trial for Ziz LaSota, the alleged leader of a cultlike group linked to several killings. U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar granted the request from…[Continue Reading...]
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