LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It was a riveting week at the rape trial of actor and celebrity Scientologist Danny Masterson, with two requests for a mistrial, an alleged victim accusing a Scientology attorney of witness intimidation, and a confrontation in…[Continue Reading...]
A controversial Kenyan preacher has been summoned by police as the government cracks down on what it calls rogue churches and extremist religious leaders. Eliud Wekesa, popularly known as “Jesus of Tongaren”, the leader of the New Jerusalem sect, was…[Continue Reading...]
JIM Bob Duggar has been dealing with a real-life nightmare now that the Duggar documentary has a release date. Jim Bob, 57, and the rest of the Duggar family are in for a wild summer thanks to the upcoming docuseries.…[Continue Reading...]
A former private investigator claimed she was hired by the Church of Scientology to "stalk" ex-members of the religious group, including Mike Rinder, Amy Scobee, and Mat Pesch. Alanna Warren alleged was hired in 2009 and forced to sign a…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya, May 9 (Reuters) - Kenyan investigators have resumed the search for members of a doomsday cult in a forest where more than 100 corpses, mostly of children, have been exhumed, victims of a "highly organised crime", Interior…[Continue Reading...]
A team of officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), National Intelligence Service (NIS) and community leaders on Monday, May 8, raided a church in Kwale following reports of cultic teachings by the preacher. The team stormed into Rainbow…[Continue Reading...]
The gunman who opened fire on an Allen, Texas shopping mall on Saturday, killing eight, appears to have posted neo-Nazi content on the social media site OK.ru, where his profile picture was a smiley face with a Hitler mustache. The…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who died of blood loss after an elective hysterectomy was a Jehovah’s Witness who left conflicting requests about whether she would consent to a blood transfusion, an inquest has heard. Heather Winchester, 75, died at John Hunter Hospital…[Continue Reading...]
John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons’s life seems too improbable to be believed. But it’s all there in the biographies, Sex and Rockets and Strange Angel (the basis of a TV series of the same name), among other places, including a streaming…[Continue Reading...]
Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U.S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon…[Continue Reading...]
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