oday marks 25 years since the gruesome Kanungu cult massacre in Uganda that claimed the lives of more than 700 people. The incident marks the darkest chapter in the history of the East African country whose past is full of…[Continue Reading...]
On the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995, publishing house employee Junichi Sugiyama had planned to head to Tsukiji, a Tokyo district served by the Hibiya Line subway station of the same name. He had a meeting with a major…[Continue Reading...]
Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed and kissed him in a coffin. Before that a glass screen had always separated…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — A Pasig court has denied the request of detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy to be placed under house arrest. In a four-page order, the Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 159 said it found no compelling justification to…[Continue Reading...]
More than 40 former residents of a children's home run by a controversial "cult" are suing the authorities for allegedly putting them in the care of abusers. The Red House in Buxton, Norfolk, took in hundreds of children over 14…[Continue Reading...]
Public awareness of cults has heightened after reports surfaced that a woman who escaped from the Christian Gospel Mission (JMS), known for committing sexual crimes against its followers, was sued for distributing illegal footage while trying to convince her friend…[Continue Reading...]
Cults lure in the unsuspecting with promises of enlightenment, only to entrap them in webs of deceit, control, and terror. These books unravel the eerie realities behind some of history’s most disturbing sects offering an unsettling glimpse into the dark…[Continue Reading...]
At the time, Yamada was deputy chief of the division. Kamikuishiki was later merged with neighboring municipalities. Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, would be executed at age 63. Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Tatsuhiro Ishizawa spoke with Yamada, 84,…[Continue Reading...]
An arrest warrant has been issued for a senior member of Lighthouse, the life-coaching group which was the subject of the BBC podcast series, A Very British Cult. The warrant was issued for Shaun Cooper, a director of the group's…[Continue Reading...]
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Lev Tahor members have stepped up their protests over the removal of 139 children from their cult. In recent days members of the cult blocked roads, demonstrated outside the facility where the children are being kept…[Continue Reading...]
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