Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Takahashi, whose husband worked for the metro system, told…[Continue Reading...]
Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something…[Continue Reading...]
As rape-accused church leader, Stephen Zondo, prepares to return to the Pretoria High Court today, ex-congregants have described him as a cult leader who brainwashed worshippers. The Rivers of Living Water Church leader is accused of sexually assaulting several women…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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