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Education minister signed Unification Church-supporting document

Published February 7, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, cult leader, cults, Japan, Moonies, political influence, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

Education minister Masahito Moriyama, who also has religious affairs within his ministerial portfolio, admitted Wednesday to signing a document pledging support for issues championed by the Unification Church ahead of the October 2021 general election. At a parliamentary session, Moriyama…[Continue Reading...]

Scientology Fighting Leah Remini’s New Plot To Serve Church Leader David Miscavige With Bombshell Harassment Lawsuit

Published February 7, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged California, David Miscavige, lawsuit, Leah Remini, Scientologists, Scientology

Leah Remini and Scientology are going back and forth in court over whether the actress properly served church leader David Miscavige with her bombshell lawsuit. According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, the Religious Technology Center, a corporation created by…[Continue Reading...]

An Alien Prophet, UFOs, cloning babies, and anus inspections: Netflix’s new true crime doc will blow your mind

Published February 7, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Claude Vorilhon, cult leader, cults, Rael, Raelians

To call Netflix’s latest documentary wild is a huge understatement. It features baby cloning and UFOs… and that’s not even the half of it. If you were left gasping at Tiger King, baffled by true crime series Last Stop Larrimah…[Continue Reading...]

‘He’s Able’: Inside the album recorded by the Jonestown cult

Published February 7, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult compound, cult leader, cult massacre, Jim Jones, Jonestown, music

At the end of the 1960s, the counterculture started to become more dangerous by the day. As much as artists wanted to believe in freedom of expression, the heinous acts of people like Charles Manson cast a dark shroud over…[Continue Reading...]

Taxi driver appears in court accused of leading starvation cult that killed 400

Published February 6, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, Kenya, murder charges, Paul Mackenzie

Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest. The defendants all denied the charges brought before…[Continue Reading...]

Minister denies seeking campaign support from ex-Unification Church affiliate

Published February 6, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, Japan, political influence, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

Japan's education minister Moriyama Masahito has denied seeking election campaign support from an organization related to the religious group formerly called the Unification Church. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper has reported that Moriyama received a letter of recommendation from the organization…[Continue Reading...]

What Happened To Jaime Gomez & His Buddhafield Cult (How To Become A Cult Leader)

Published February 6, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Buddahfield, cult leader, cults, Jaime Gomez

The third episode of the Netflix documentary series How to Become a Cult Leader focuses on Buddhafield founder Jaime Gomez. Born in Venezuela, Gomez moved to Hollywood to break out as an actor. But with his acting dreams going nowhere,…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya cult leader, who incited followers to starve to death to ‘meet Jesus’ charged with 191 counts of murder

Published February 6, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult. Paul Mackenzie, Good News International Church, Kenya, murder charges

A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who has…[Continue Reading...]

Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’

Published February 5, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, disinformation, misinformation

WASHINGTON Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons…[Continue Reading...]

Scientology-linked drug rehab listed on NHS ‘traumatised’ vulnerable people

Published February 5, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged drug treatment program, Narconon, Scientologists, Scientology, trauma

A drug rehab centre linked to the Church of Scientology and listed on the NHS website allegedly left vulnerable people traumatised and “broken” by psychological exercises akin to “obedience training”, former staff members and patients have reportedly claimed. Narconon was…[Continue Reading...]