Cult leaders should be prosecuted under the same laws as abusive spouses, MPs have said. Controlling or coercive behaviour in the home is a crime in the UK punishable by up to five years in prison. However, victims of cult…[Continue Reading...]
The endless runner games have come to real life. Last month, a TikToker going by the handle Swhileyy ran through the Scientology building in Los Angeles, California, to see how far he could get before a member of the church…[Continue Reading...]
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call of a reported 50 juveniles causing a disturbance at a Church of Scientology building in Hollywood recently ... amid a wave of social media videos showing people attempting to sprint as…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of families from an insular Hasidic sect in northern Israel are systematically marrying off girls as young as 12 to husbands who are not much older, as welfare services fail them and community members fear speaking out, Haaretz reported…[Continue Reading...]
Open court learned today that stayed sexual assault charges against a well-known Edmonton-area spiritual leader and his wife were the result of Crown misconduct. Johannes (John) de Ruiter and his wife, Leigh Ann, each faced six counts of sexual assault…[Continue Reading...]
Sexual assault charges against a self-styled spiritual leader and his wife have been stayed after the Alberta prosecution service said it conducted a thorough review of the file and determined it was unable to proceed with the charges. Johannes (John)…[Continue Reading...]
A Hollywood building that formerly housed the Mama Shelter hotel has sold out of receivership to an entity linked to the Church of Scientology for $16M, Bisnow has learned. The sale price for the 70-room hotel works out to about…[Continue Reading...]
Leah Remini is probably Scientology’s most vocal celebrity critic, having spoken about the Church—which she was raised in, before leaving it in 2013—in interviews, on social media, and most notably through her A&E documentary series Leah Remini: Scientology And The…[Continue Reading...]
North Korea isn't just a dictatorship — it's a belief system. Jonathan Cheng explains how a cult of personality, rooted in Christianity, keeps the Kim dynasty in power. Watch the video https://www.modernghana.com/amp/videonews/639915[Continue Reading...]
Most childhoods are filled with bike riding, eating pizza or going to the movies, but twins Flor and Tamar Edwards, both 34, have been discovering many of these things for the first time as adults. That’s because for the first…[Continue Reading...]
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