Attorneys for Scientology leader David Miscavige, a co-defendant in Leah Remini's lawsuit against the church, have filed court papers seeking the removal of the current judge overseeing the case. The court papers brought Tuesday by Miscavige's lawyers cite a section…[Continue Reading...]
An infamous cult leader known as "Black Jesus", who was suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a remote Papua New Guinea village, reports said Friday. Steven Tari, a convicted rapist, had been on the run since escaping…[Continue Reading...]
There’s long been a national fascination with cults, making them fertile ground for books and documentaries. Gloversville native Susan Ashline knows this well. The Emmy-nominated journalist extensively covered the Utica-area Word of Life Christian Church cult in her 2019 book…[Continue Reading...]
CATHERINE COLDSTREAM says that she is staggered by the media interest in her memoir, Cloistered: My years as a nun. “People used to glaze over when I said I’m writing about my time as a nun,” she says. But the book is…[Continue Reading...]
Over the course of 70 years, one religious organization has amassed massive quantities of private land in Florida. Boasting a vast portfolio, spanning 678,000 acres throughout the state, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the…[Continue Reading...]
The pain of the parents who lost their children, first grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, still feels fresh nearly 12 years after the shooting. In a new documentary about the tragedy, Mark Barden says that as he and…[Continue Reading...]
When Theo Pratt saw her sister in India’s Gloriavale outpost last year, she was horrified. “She was just like a shell of the person I remembered as my sister. I was very taken aback, I didn’t expect it to be…[Continue Reading...]
It takes immense bravery to leave the confines of an insular, tightly knit community like Gloriavale. Especially when it’s the only life you’ve ever known and you’ve been told since birth that the community is your sanctuary from an outside…[Continue Reading...]
Five extremists were sentenced for their connection to a young child’s death and terrorism plot against the United States. Four of them — Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, his sisters Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhanah Wahhaj, and Subhanah’s husband, Lucas Morton — must…[Continue Reading...]
Those of you with a penchant for the macabre, like me, might be pretty familiar with some of the more infamous cults throughout history. We have seen many of them come and go, sometimes with tragic stories ending in scandals,…[Continue Reading...]
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