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Japan to keep restricting Aum Shinrikyo successor group’s activities

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, cult leader, cults, Japan, Shoko Asahara

The Public Security Examination Commission has decided to extend restrictions on the activities of Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, for another six months. The decision, made Wednesday, marks the sixth time the recurrence prevention…[Continue Reading...]

‘Exmo’ Influencers Mount a TikTok War Against the Mormon Church

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Mormons Tagged ex-Mormons, former Mormons, LDS, Mormon Church

When Madeline Woodward discovered ex-Mormon influencers on social media, it was her first glimpse of people finding joy after leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Woodward, a descendant of church pioneers, had struggled for years to reconcile…[Continue Reading...]

I lost 12 Relatives to Mackenzie’s Cult, Witness tells court

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal trial, cult eader, cults, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 – A 60-year-old man on Thursday gave an emotional testimony before Tononoka Children’s court on how he lost nearly his entire family to the Shakahola massacre orchestrated by Pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of the Good News…[Continue Reading...]

Forthcoming book to tell of sexual abuse within insular religious sect

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, sexual abuse, two by twos

GUELPH – Brianna Bell was the first journalist to break the story about abuse in the Two by Twos church, a story the Guelph-based freelance journalist wrote for the Daily Dot two years ago. Six months after that, the FBI…[Continue Reading...]

Unification Church head hospitalized ahead of corruption investigation summons

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged bribery investigation, poltical influence, South Korea, Unification Church

The head of the Unification Church, Han Hak-ja, who faces allegations of instructing a request for sect-related favors targeting former President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife, was confirmed to have been hospitalized at Seoul Asan Hospital on the 4th ahead…[Continue Reading...]

Ex-priest of ‘cult’ church group to face retrial on five sex offence charges

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Christopher Brain, criminal prosecution, cult leader, UK

Christopher Brain, 68, went on trial accused of one count of rape and 36 counts of indecent assault against 13 women during the years he led the movement, which was part of the Church of England, between 1986 and 1995…[Continue Reading...]

Aum Supreme Truth Cult Successor Aleph Has Widow, Son of Executed Founder as Officers or Members, Govt Commission Finds

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, cult leader, cults, Japan, Shoko Asahara, son of Asahara, widow

The Public Security Examination Commission on Wednesday handed down a sixth regulatory action against Aleph, the primary successor organization of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, based on the Law on the Control of Organizations Which Committed Indiscriminate Mass Murder. The…[Continue Reading...]

Police make arrests over Kenya cult-linked deaths as 34 bodies found

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cults, Good News International Church, Kenya

Eleven suspects are in custody following the exhumation of 34 bodies and recovery of 102 human remains from shallow graves in Kenya’s Kilifi County, police confirmed, in what authorities say is a return of cult-linked killings. Police Chief Douglas Kanja,…[Continue Reading...]

Sask. RCMP raid ‘Queen of Canada’ cult compound, arrest 16 adults

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Canada, criminal charges, cult leader, cults, Romana Didulo

Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 16 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound on Wednesday after a firearms investigation. At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in Regina, Insp. Ashley St. Germaine said RCMP executed a search warrant…[Continue Reading...]

Cult leader known as the ‘Queen of Canada’ arrested in Saskatchewan village

Published September 4, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Canada, criminal charges, cult leader, Romana Didulo

Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 16 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound on Wednesday after a firearms investigation. Watch video report https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/cult-leader-known-as-the-queen-of-canada-arrested-in-saskatchewan-village/vi-AA1LPk6R[Continue Reading...]