The new law, approved at this year's closing parliamentary session, bans religious and other groups from using coercion or threats to solicit funds from followers. Many Unification Church followers claim they were forced to join, left in poverty, or neglected because of their parents' devotion to the…[Continue Reading...]
German police’s large raid on far-right extremists this week revealed the influence a conspiracy theory movement such as QAnon has already had across Europe. Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson talks to the Council on Foreign Relations’ Jacob Ware about the…[Continue Reading...]
Nearly four-in-ten Americans say we're 'living in the end times,' says a poll taken against a stark backdrop of climate change, the pandemic, nuclear brinkmanship and doomsday cults. A Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 adults found that…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Bateman, the self-anointed "prophet" of a polygamous FLDS cult, was arrested in August after three young girls were found hidden in a cargo trailer that law enforcement said he was towing on a highway in Flagstaff, Arizona — over…[Continue Reading...]
My reason for beginning this article as such is directly due to the controversy in the field, and the most common accusations that these individuals are little more than cold readers. Though I personally by nature am also a skeptic…[Continue Reading...]
A fortune teller swindled a Miami woman out of more than $3 million by convincing her that she needed a medium to remove the curses out of her life. The psychic, however, didn’t foresee her own future: years behind bars…[Continue Reading...]
A convicted rapist who was radicalised in prison funnelled more than £18,000 of taxpayers’ cash to Islamic State in his Syria homeland. Tarek Namouz, 43, claimed Covid loans from Hammersmith and Fulham Council for his west London barbershop but sent…[Continue Reading...]
Islamist militant group Boko Haram has reportedly slain at least 33 wives of Islamic State fighters in a bloody revenge attack as fighting between the rival groups continues to escalate. The massacre is thought to have been instigated earlier this…[Continue Reading...]
Former followers of the religious group previously known as the Unification Church and their supporters have petitioned the government ask a court to issue an order to remove the group's legal status as a religious corporation. The campaigners on Friday…[Continue Reading...]
Watch this video featuring former cult victim Flora Jessop, an activist helping polygamist children that are sex trafficking victims.[Continue Reading...]
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