In November 2016, Valerie Haney fled the Church of Scientology in a scene that reads as if it was ripped straight from the big screen: The longtime member and former casting director for the controversial institution’s internal films climbed into…[Continue Reading...]
ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy — The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th century’s revered Catholic leaders, who built an international movement of community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine about Jesus…[Continue Reading...]
"Cults Inside Out" is a very detailed carefully researched book about the cult phenomenon. It includes chapters about the history of modern cults, family cults and deadly cults. The book also examines in-depth the process of rescuing someone from a…[Continue Reading...]
The Cult Education Institute has a huge historical archive about Mormon and the LDS. This archive has been under continuing construction since 1996 and includes information about Mormon beliefs and practices, the "Book of Mormon," sexual abuse cases, LGBTQ Mormons,…[Continue Reading...]
Forty-one local assembly members felt compelled to return or correct their expenses for political activities because they involved matters concerning the Unification Church, The Asahi Shimbun learned. Local governments provide local assembly members with funds, courtesy of taxpayers, for political activities to…[Continue Reading...]
Shortly after police forcibly removed her from her home, Bonnie sat in her car, surrounded by her animals, and frantically posted in a Telegram chatroom for the QAnon Queen of Canada. “They don't care,” she wrote. “They threw us out…[Continue Reading...]
Actor Danny Masterson was in L.A. Superior Criminal court Monday morning as one of three women who say they were raped at his Hollywood Hills home came to court with Leah Remini by her side to argue that she had…[Continue Reading...]
Since the moment Alex Jones and his company Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the people to whom he owes a lot of money have suspected that he’s not being entirely honest. Those people include parents who lost their…[Continue Reading...]
“I’M LITERALLY SHAKING right now as I’m talking to you,” Valerie Haney says, speaking by phone from Florida. Her 22 years in Scientology’s hardcore elite unit, the Sea Organization, has left her with what her therapist has diagnosed as PTSD,…[Continue Reading...]
Lester Chanin was asleep the night the paintings were taken. He was only 15, and though it happened more than 50 years ago, he still remembers waking the next day to a world that seemed irrevocably changed. The painter, his…[Continue Reading...]
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