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Japan victims voice fears 30 years after sarin subway attack

Published March 18, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, Aum subway gassing, Japan, Tokyo, victims

Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Takahashi, whose husband worked for the metro system, told…[Continue Reading...]

Asking Eric: Conflicted over including nephew, who’s in a cult, in will

Published March 18, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged bequests, cults, inheritance, making wills

Dear Eric: It’s time for me to update my will, and I’m struggling with the division of my assets. I have no children of my own, and my general plan is to leave some to charity and distribute the rest…[Continue Reading...]

Ministries Not Filing a Form 990 Almost 200 ministries comprise this list, including some of the largest in the country.

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Televangelists Tagged evangelical ministries, financial transparency, research

This second list for March from the MinistryWatch 1000 database features the 189 Christian ministries that do not file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service. The groups are listed alphabetically, and some of the largest ministries in the…[Continue Reading...]

28 years ago, Heaven’s Gate couldn’t wait

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, cult leader, cult suicides, doomsday cult, Heaven's Gate, Marshal Applewhite

Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something…[Continue Reading...]

Ex-congregants say rape-accused pastor Zondo is a ‘cult leader’

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged alleged cult leader, cults, rape claims, Rivers of Living Water Church, South Africa, Stephen Zondo

As rape-accused church leader, Stephen Zondo, prepares to return to the Pretoria High Court today, ex-congregants have described him as a cult leader who brainwashed worshippers. The Rivers of Living Water Church leader is accused of sexually assaulting several women…[Continue Reading...]

On this day in 2000, Uganda witnessed the horrific Kanungu massacre: How a Christian doomsday cult killed more than 700 people

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged doomsday cult, mass murders, mass suicides, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, Uganda

oday marks 25 years since the gruesome Kanungu cult massacre in Uganda that claimed the lives of more than 700 people. The incident marks the darkest chapter in the history of the East African country whose past is full of…[Continue Reading...]

The day a religious cult brought terror to Tokyo

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, doomsday cult, gas attack, Japan, Tokyo

On the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995, publishing house employee Junichi Sugiyama had planned to head to Tsukiji, a Tokyo district served by the Hibiya Line subway station of the same name. He had a meeting with a major…[Continue Reading...]

Japan cult widow speaks 30 years after subway attack

Published March 17, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, doomsday cult, gas attack, Japan, Tokyo, victims

Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed and kissed him in a coffin. Before that a glass screen had always separated…[Continue Reading...]

Pyramid of lies: how MLM lures the desperate

Published March 16, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged MLM, multi level markeing, scams, schemes

Two years ago, when flipping her graduation cap at her convocation ceremony, Ayesha Ali was self-confident that getting a degree from one of the most reputed business schools would land her a good job. Her dreams and expectations were shattered…[Continue Reading...]

People Are Sharing The Final Straws That Made Their Ex-QAnon Loved Ones See The Light, And I’m Truly Shocked By Some Of These

Published March 16, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, ex-believers, former members, QAnon

If you also haven't heard that name since way back when (well, 2020), let me refresh you. It's a conspiracy theory alleging that President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against the "deep state," or "a cabal of Satan-worshipping…[Continue Reading...]

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