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Israeli delegation to assist Guatemalan authorities with Lev Tahor victims

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged child abuse, cults, Guatemala, Lev Tahor, sexual abuse

A professional delegation from the Israeli Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs will travel to Guatemala at the end of the week to assist the local authorities in tending to the Lev Tahor cult. The move comes after Guatemalan authorities…[Continue Reading...]

How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse allegations, Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, Shen Yun

Over the past decade, the dance group Shen Yun Performing Arts has made money at a staggering rate. The group had $60 million in 2015. It had $144 million by 2019. And by the end of last year, tax records…[Continue Reading...]

Faith-based abuse survivor and advocate rejects King’s Service Medal, blasts Government on treatment of victims

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged child abuse, New Zealand, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

Mike Ledingham says he cannot accept the King's Service Medal awarded to him this New Year. Photo / Supplied An abuse survivor who has spent 20 years campaigning for the redress and improvement of child safety in faith-based care settings…[Continue Reading...]

Paige DeSorbo, 32, opens up on past abusive relationship she endured at 19: ‘Fully brainwashed’

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abusie controlling relationships, cult-like relationships, cultic relationships

Summer House star Paige DeSorbo talked about her painful past in a new episode of her podcast Giggly Squad, via Us Weekly. The 32-year-old reality star opened up about a past abusive relationship she was in when she was 19…[Continue Reading...]

‘Escape with the kids’: Pursuing the leaders of Lev Tahor on the Mexico border

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal fugitives, cult, cult leaders, Lev Tahor

Mexican and Guatemalan security forces carried out a joint operation along their shared border, attempting to prevent the leaders of the Lev Tahor cult from escaping. The operation follows concerns that the leaders would attempt to smuggle additional children out,…[Continue Reading...]

Dr Pradeep Dissanayake: Melbourne skin specialist jailed for abusing children in cult

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Australia, child abuse, cult leader, Pradeep Dissanayake

A Melbourne doctor used his “God-like” status as a religious leader to prey on the daughters of cult members, a court has been told. Pradeep Dissanayake, 52, had his jail sentence for sexually abusing two children increased to 10 years…[Continue Reading...]

Guatemala on alert as Lev Tahor members attempt to flee to Mexico with children

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal cult, Guatemala, law enforcement, Lev Tahor

A week and a half after Guatemalan authorities rescued 204 children, teenagers and women from the compound of the extremist ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor ("Pure Heart"), security at the border with Mexico has been tightened amid concerns that sect leaders…[Continue Reading...]

A very British cult: Rogue priests and The Abode of Love

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged sinister sect, The Abode of Love, Victorian England

How a sinister Victorian sect operated deep in the English countryside. See more https://www.pressreader.com/uk/all-about-history/20241231/282711937630970[Continue Reading...]

Pins, portraits, propaganda: How the cult of Kim Jong Un hit new heights in 2024

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Kim Jong Un, North Korea

Kim Jong Un, with statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the background | Image: KCNA (Aug. 10, 2024) and NK News (Sept. 2015), edited by NK News In a year marked by drastic policy shifts, Kim…[Continue Reading...]

My Three Years in a Christian Cult

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged authoritarian chuches, shepherding movement, Shilow Fellowship, survivor story

There is a nondescript house on Brookfield Drive in East Lansing, Michigan, whose address I forget though I remember everything else about it. It’s where I lived for almost three years in the 1970s as part of a religious group…[Continue Reading...]