Aum Shinrikyo is back in focus after an Aleph investigation tied to a March 8 apartment search in Japan. Reports say police found tens of millions of yen in cash at a residence shared by Shoko Asahara’s widow and son,…[Continue Reading...]
Brazil's most prolific alleged spiritual healer is now its most prolific convicted rapist, and the woman who made him famous on prime-time television has barely said a word about it since. João Teixeira de Faria, the self-proclaimed medium who built…[Continue Reading...]
A member of a prominent Mormon family who was arrested in Utah in recent months on child exploitation charges previously lived in the Chicago area and for many years attended a congregation in the far northwest suburbs — where he’s…[Continue Reading...]
A notice posted March 9 at the entrance of the headquarters of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward reads, “Entry to this facility without the permission of the liquidator is prohibited.” (Yuki Hanano) Liquidators…[Continue Reading...]
Olivet University, a California-based Bible college, will maintain its national accreditation for another year, according to the school’s accreditor, the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) despite state and federal investigations into the university’s activities and the fact that it…[Continue Reading...]
On the eve of its $1,500-per-person Los Angeles pop-up, which starts Mar. 11, Noma — often ranked the world’s top restaurant — has been exposed as a creative institution that built and sustained its reputation on physical and psychological workplace…[Continue Reading...]
For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW, Queensland and South Australia have now criminalised coercive control, other states and territories…[Continue Reading...]
A former Cabinet minister has admitted to lobbying in support of the Unification Church’s controversial 2015 name change, telling The Asahi Shimbun he acted because the group had provided him with crucial election support. Yoshiaki Harada, 81, a former environment…[Continue Reading...]
Tom Cruise's first wife Mimi Rogers cut a glamorous and radiant figure when she surfaced in Los Angeles in a rare recent sighting. Rogers was married to Cruise from 1987 to 1990, and during the time they were together she…[Continue Reading...]
Once dubbed America's "most hated family" thanks to their shocking hateful views on the LGBTQ+ community, some of those who starred on Louis Theroux documentary Surviving America's Most Hated Family in 2019 have completely transformed their lives. The family within…[Continue Reading...]
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