Over the decades, juries at the imposing crown court in Winchester, Hampshire, have heard all kinds of extraordinary stories. Few can have been quite as strange as the twisty tale of Hongchi Xiao, a Chinese-born banker turned “master” of alternative…[Continue Reading...]
Inspiration Plaza, the latest public art addition in Little Rock’s Riverfront Park, is striking. A 14-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a man and woman connected by a billowing sheet forms a self-supported canopy over a stone-tiled footpath. The canopy’s underside is…[Continue Reading...]
Effective conspiracy theories draw in believers by appearing to give a glimpse behind the curtain, of how the world really works, while preserving a sense that even in the modern technological era, there are still mysteries beyond most people’s understanding.…[Continue Reading...]
Ex-members and parents of devotees of the Shincheonji Church have hailed a council’s decision to ban its building from becoming a legal teaching base as a positive step towards shutting down the religious sect’s activities in Perth for good. Cambridge…[Continue Reading...]
Frank L Silva, also known as Frank DeSilva, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan and a convicted terrorist, has reportedly been meeting remotely with Irish far-right extremist groups to discuss and plan anti-immigration protests in Ireland.Silva was…[Continue Reading...]
Online influencers like Andrew Tate are radicalising boys into extreme misogyny in a way that is "quite terrifying", police are warning. Senior police officer Maggie Blyth said young men and boys could be radicalised in the same way that terrorists…[Continue Reading...]
LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, has been convicted of terrorism offences after a trial in London, the capital's Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday.…[Continue Reading...]
When Jesselyn Cook wrote about the children of QAnon believers as a HuffPost reporter in 2021, she didn’t expect the reaction she would receive ― hundreds upon hundreds of emails from readers, all of who had lived some version of…[Continue Reading...]
Devotees can die for their gurus. Literally and metaphorically. Especially if the guru forms a cult, offering followers life-transforming experiences. The guru, as the god and guide, governs their lives. Paramahamsa Nithyananda set up his first ashram in Tamil Nadu…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a faith-healing religious circle charged with a diabetic girl’s murder said the child was “going to be healed”, with the group calling her condition an “elephant in the room” in the years before her death. Fourteen members…[Continue Reading...]
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