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‘Cults like us’: Why cults are as American as apple pie

Published March 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged American history, cults, sects

“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a mental picture: a group of beautiful young people…[Continue Reading...]

B.C. court voids ‘cult’ marriage, finding woman didn’t ‘truly consent’

Published March 22, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Canada, cults, Dera Sacha Sauda, marriage revoked, sect

A British Columbia judge has annulled the marriage of a woman to a fellow member of an India-based "cult group," saying she didn't "truly consent" to the 2023 wedding. The B.C. Supreme Court ruling issued this week says Arshnoor Kaur…[Continue Reading...]

Avery Haines: How I landed an interview with accused cult leaders

Published March 22, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged cult leaders, Jeff Divine, Michigan, Shaleia Divine, Twin Flames Universe

The subject line stopped me cold. “We’re not a cult.” It was late 2024, and the email came from a crisis PR firm hired by a couple under siege—Jeff and Shaleia Divine, the controversial spiritual leaders behind Twin Flames Universe.…[Continue Reading...]

Who Are the Zizians: Why 6 Killings Are Linked to Alleged Vegan Techie “Cult”

Published March 22, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult, cult leader, deaths, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, murders, prosecutions, Zizians

It turned out Jack "Ziz" LaSota wasn't dead. Not on Aug. 19, 2022, when the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a call about a person falling off a boat in San Francisco Bay but were unable to locate a body. And…[Continue Reading...]

‘I want to be the best man possible’: Meet the manosphere-curious men trying to deradicalise themselves online

Published March 21, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged hyper-masculinity, Incels, online radicalization

In 2023, I stumbled across a subreddit called r/IncelExit. It’s a self-described place “for people who got drawn into the incel community but want support and help with a way out”. With the aim of writing about the group, and…[Continue Reading...]

Aum Shinrikyo Successors Continue to Gain New Young Members

Published March 21, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, cults, Japan, recruitment

Tokyo, March 21 (Jiji Press)--Three successor groups of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult continue to attract new young members 30 years after the cult carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Of them, mainstream…[Continue Reading...]

Aum Victims Seek Govt Help as Aleph Compensation Stalls; Cult’s Successor Group Said to Have Hidden Assets

Published March 21, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, doomsday cult, Japan, victim compensation

Thirty years after the Aum Supreme Truth cult’s deadly attacks, victims’ families are calling for urgent government intervention as compensation payments from its successor group remain stalled. Marking the 30th anniversary of Aum’s 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo…[Continue Reading...]

New charges for group connected to shooting of VT border agent

Published March 21, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cult leader, death cult, gun charges, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, Maryland, Zizians

According to the AP, authorities say, the leader of a cultlike group and two of its members are facing new gun charges in Maryland. Jack LaSota, known as Ziz, is described as the leader of an extremist group called the…[Continue Reading...]

Teen Escaped a Cult After a Forced Marriage to a Stranger. Her Husband Did Too — Then They Fell in Love

Published March 21, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FLDS, Polygamist cult, survivor story, teen marriages

Angela and Cade Johnson were married at a laundromat in 2003 when she was 16 and he was 19. They exchanged vows not by choice, but because the notorious polygamist cult they grew up in — the Fundamentalist Church of…[Continue Reading...]

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