MANILA, Philippines — Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Thursday launched an investigation into claims that an alleged cult in Surigao del Norte might be wrongfully taking government cash grants intended for its members. The move comes following revelations…[Continue Reading...]
Socorro Bayanihan Services (SBS), a non-governmental organization in Surigao del Norte, has been accused of being a religious cult—recruiting thousands of female minors, forcing them into marriage, and subjecting them to forced labor and sexual abuse. According to Chino Gaston's…[Continue Reading...]
ABEOKUTA: Security operatives in Ogun State on Wednesday tracked six suspected cultists, allegedly involved in the violence that erupted in Sagamu at the weekend to the official residence of a member of the State House of Assembly. The member, representing…[Continue Reading...]
The Ogun State Government plans to set up a special court for cult-related cases. The state also plans to set up a Joint Anti-Cultism Security Task Force comprising all major security outfits, with the mandate to rid the state of…[Continue Reading...]
On a fall day in 1978, the world woke up to learn that more than 900 people in Guyana had died in a mass “suicide,” ostensibly at the command of the Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones. In the weeks…[Continue Reading...]
In 2018, with the help of her mother, actress Catherine Oxenberg, India Oxenberg escaped the clutches of the secretive cult known as NXIVM, after seven years of sexual and psychological abuse. The two assisted the FBI in taking down the…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Kilifi have gone to court to detain members of an alleged religious sect pending investigations after two minors died after their parents refused to take them to hospital for medication because of their faith. Ten suspected members of…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — Charges of qualified trafficking as well as kidnapping and serious illegal detention will be filed against members of a group in Socorro, Surigao del Norte who have been accused of rape and forced marriage of children. Department…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — Senators Risa Hontiveros and Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa are seeking the investigation of an alleged cult victimizing minors in Surigao del Norte’s Socorro town. Hontiveros said the “Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc.” has 3,650 members, including 1,587 minors.…[Continue Reading...]
Ogun State government has imposed curfew on Sagamu, the headquarters of Sagamu Local Government Area of the state. The curfew followed the recent clashes among rival cult groups that engaged themselves in supremacy battle since Wednesday last week, with no…[Continue Reading...]
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