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Chile Confronts Its Past by Turning Cult Compound into Memorial to State Terror

Published July 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chile, Colonia Dignadad, cult compound, cult leader, cults, Paul Schaefer, pedophile

Barbed wire once kept secrets buried at Villa Baviera. Now, Chile’s government plans to open the gates—to schoolchildren, archivists, and survivors—converting the site of dictatorship-era torture into a public reckoning with overlapping traumas that still echo across generations. From Bavarian…[Continue Reading...]

Angelo Sato: the Michelin-starred chef who grew up in a religious cult

Published July 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse, Children of God, cult leader, cults, Moses David Berg, survivor story, UK

It’s mid-morning at Humble Chicken 3.0, the chef Angelo Sato’s 13-seat, two-Michelin-star restaurant in Soho, London. Sato, heavily tattooed and with a mohican, is wearing chef’s clogs and an apron over shorts and a vest. His team of four sous-chefs…[Continue Reading...]

‘We could hear the screams’: Inside the Jesus Army

Published July 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged abuse, cult leader, cults, Jesus Army, Noel Stanton, survivor stories, UK

A small Christian commune that aspired to create heaven on Earth grew to become a cult in which sexual and physical abuse was perpetuated in plain sight. The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical…[Continue Reading...]

Italian AI cult leader jailed after victim ditches chemo

Published July 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged arrested, Carla Stagno, cult leader, cults, Italy, Unisono

A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI. Carla Stagno was slapped with a nine-year stretch for…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army review – the eye-opening tale of a national shame

Published July 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized

Nobody wants to be in a cult. That includes the people who are in cults – which is why they tend to claim they’re nothing of the sort. Founded in 1970s Northamptonshire by lay pastor and self-anointed prophet Noel Stanton,…[Continue Reading...]