Authorities in Ethiopia have repatriated 80 Ugandans who were conned out of their money with the promise of meeting Jesus. The leader of the team, Pastor Simon Opolot, was on the joint security team's wanted list for duping believers from…[Continue Reading...]
The actor, 46, has been accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and women for two decades in multiple states in the US. He now faces additional charges in Canada. Former "Dances With Wolves" actor, Nathan Chasing Horse, is now facing…[Continue Reading...]
The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practiced starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said. Police believe most of the bodies found in a…[Continue Reading...]
Cults thrive in isolation, and this poses a challenge for the urban cult leader. Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, exerted an unsettling degree of influence on San Francisco politics of the late nineteen-seventies but was eventually forced to flee…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were…[Continue Reading...]
New details have emerged indicating that over 80 members of a cult who went missing from Uganda last month had been duped by their pastor of an impending doomsday and that they would only be spared by meeting Jesus in…[Continue Reading...]
Sixty-five survivors of a Kenyan Christian cult are facing charges of attempted suicide after refusing to eat meals given to them at the rescue centre where they had been taken. At court on Monday, the prosecution applied to have the…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow Daybell, the so-called 'cult-mum' who was found guilty last month of murdering her two children and her current husband's former wife, was accused by prosecutors of 'twisting' a juror's statements in a 'misplaced' push for a new trial…[Continue Reading...]
Cults are fertile ground for endless documentaries, movies, TV shows, books, so much so that there seems to be a new Netflix show about one every month. But why? Our fascination with cults comes from the same place as our…[Continue Reading...]
Since March 2023, Mathias Shipeta has been at the heart of the Kenya starvation cult rescue operation. Pulling out emaciated cult members from thickets and losing some in the process has taken a toll on him. The cult leader Paul…[Continue Reading...]
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