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Preserving memories of the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack

Published March 7, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, cult leader, doomsday cult, gas attack, Shoko Asahara, Tokyo

As the 30th anniversary of the worst indiscriminate terrorist attack in Japan's history approaches, efforts to ensure the incident and the lessons learned from it will not fade from memory have picked up. On March 20, 1995, members of the…[Continue Reading...]

Cult Clash Leaves Two Dead, Several Injured In Delta Community

Published March 7, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, deaths, gangs, Nigeria, violences

The clash, which occurred on Wednesday, reportedly started in Ozoro, the headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area, before escalating to Ughelli, resulting in deadly confrontations between the rival groups. A violent cult clash between members of the Vikings Confraternity…[Continue Reading...]

Ex Oxford University student charged with murder after ‘cult stabbing’

Published March 7, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged arrests criminal charges, cults, Maximilian Snyder, murders, Zizians

A former Oxford University student has been charged with murder following a stabbing which has been linked to a string of cult killings. Maximilian Snyder enrolled on a computer science course at the prestigious institution in 2021 and described himself as…[Continue Reading...]

Second Circuit asked if Canadian con man’s ‘failure to provide magic’ is a crime

Published March 6, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged court ruling, fraud, Patrice Runner, psychic scam

MANHATTAN (CN) — Public defender Allegra Glashausser told a panel of federal appellate judges Wednesday morning, “The failure to provide magic is not criminal fraud.” It’s almost certainly the first time such an argument has been uttered to the Second…[Continue Reading...]

IDF says after 10,000 draft orders sent to ultra-Orthodox, only 177 enlisted

Published March 6, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Haredi, Israel, military draft, ultra-Orthodox Jews

Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, a senior IDF officer in charge of encouraging ultra-Orthodox enlistment says that of around 10,000 draft orders sent to Haredim since the summer, only 177 have so far enlisted in the…[Continue Reading...]

How our personal records ended up in a Mormon mountain vault in Utah

Published March 6, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Mormons Tagged family search, historical family records, LDS, mountain vault, Utah

Personal records of hundreds of thousands of Australians are being copied and sent to a secretive mountain vault in Utah owned by the Mormon Church following an agreement with the National Archives of Australia (NAA). Government records with details including…[Continue Reading...]

30 Years After Sarin Attack / Colleague of Lawyer Killed by Aum Supreme Truth Cult Worked Hard to Find Him, Says Lessons to Be Learned From Cult’s Illegal Acts

Published March 6, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, Japan, murder, Tsutsumi Sakamoto

Shuichi Kojima, a lawyer at Yokohama Law Office in Yokohama, was the colleague of Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, who was murdered along with his family in November 1989 by senior members of the Aum Supreme Truth cult. After Sakamoto and his…[Continue Reading...]

Prosecutors indict 13 suspects in Taipei Buddhist cult murder case

Published March 6, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged actor, arrests, Buddhist sect, cults, Lee Wei, murder, Taiwan

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Taipei prosecutors on Thursday indicted 13 people in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at the meeting place of a Buddhist group in the city's Da'an District last year. Upon completing…[Continue Reading...]

The Digital Battlefield: How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged online recruitment, radicalization, terrorism

The following is an excerpt from prepared remarks submitted to the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. To read the full testimony, download the PDF on this page. This is an important topic in light of…[Continue Reading...]

‘Orgasmic meditation’ compound just listed for $12M

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged California, compound, for sale, One Tast, retreat, sex cult

The owners of OneTaste, a San Francisco company whose “orgasmic meditation” retreats were made infamous by a Netflix documentary and a federal indictment, are selling their 162-acre Mendocino compound for $12 million. A recently posted listing for “The Land,” a…[Continue Reading...]

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