A government spokesman told AFP that the Tokyo District Court "issued the dissolution order" for the Japanese chapter of the Unification Church, founded in South Korea and nicknamed the "Moonies" after its late founder, Sun Myung Moon. The Church is…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Japan has made a major decision regarding Unification Church, which officially call itself Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. As reported by Associated Press, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the church was ordered dissolved after a government…[Continue Reading...]
In a significant blow to criminal activity in Plateau State, troops of 3 Division and Operation SAFE HAVEN have arrested a notorious cult leader and several other criminals. The cult leader, Fidelis Adamu, was taken into custody on March 20,…[Continue Reading...]
It's been three years since British cult Lighthouse was brought down over allegations of exploitation and fraud after fleecing over £2 million from its trusting members. Lighthouse, also known as Lighthouse International Group, was founded in 2012 and paraded itself…[Continue Reading...]
“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a mental picture: a group of beautiful young people…[Continue Reading...]
It turned out Jack "Ziz" LaSota wasn't dead. Not on Aug. 19, 2022, when the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a call about a person falling off a boat in San Francisco Bay but were unable to locate a body. And…[Continue Reading...]
Thirty years after the Aum Supreme Truth cult’s deadly attacks, victims’ families are calling for urgent government intervention as compensation payments from its successor group remain stalled. Marking the 30th anniversary of Aum’s 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo…[Continue Reading...]
According to the AP, authorities say, the leader of a cultlike group and two of its members are facing new gun charges in Maryland. Jack LaSota, known as Ziz, is described as the leader of an extremist group called the…[Continue Reading...]
A sex cult leader who brainwashed and abused children can be moved to an open prison, the Parole Board has said. Colin Batley was jailed in 2011 after being found guilty of 35 offences relating to being a molester and…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow Daybell represented herself at a pretrial hearing ahead of her murder trial in Arizona, but how well did she do? (3/19/25) MORE Watch video report[Continue Reading...]
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