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Aum Shinrikyo: the cult that refuses to die

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, cults, doomsday cult, Japan

Japanese authorities have warned that the son of a cult leader behind the deadly sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network in 1995 is now the leader of a successor group. The cult, Aum Shinrikyo was disbanded and its…[Continue Reading...]

DEEP DIVE: Cults recruiting on campus and the ‘walk up evangelism’ controversy

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, college campus, cults, recruitment, tactics, targeting students, university campus

You expect to see a few clubs trying to recruit at uni O-week. Maybe it's a sport team, or an arts group. But what about a cult? Students across the country are experiencing "walk up evangelism", and it's not just…[Continue Reading...]

Tell Us About Your Experience In A Cult And How You Got Out

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult survivors, cults, personal stories

Cults are terrifying and creepy as hell, but I recently learned it's more common for people to join them than I had ever realized. Which brings me to this question: What was your experience in a cult like? Maybe a…[Continue Reading...]

Sex trafficking warrant served at L.A. home owned by alleged ‘TikTok Cult’ pastor

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged alleged cult leader, arrests, California, police raid, Robert Shinn, Shekinah Church, TikTok cult

A large operation was seen unfolding in Tujunga on Friday morning when federal and local law enforcement served a search warrant for alleged sex trafficking at a home owned by a controversial pastor and subject of the Netflix docuseries “Dancing…[Continue Reading...]

Cult mum Lori Daybell called ‘coward’ as she is given two more life sentences

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, convicted murderer, cult mom, Life prison sentences, Lori Vallow

Lori Vallow Daybell, the doomsday cult follower who killed her two children, has been sentenced to two additional life sentences for plotting to kill her estranged husband and her niece's ex-husband. At her sentencing hearing in Arizona on Friday, Daybell's…[Continue Reading...]

Search warrants served at Tujunga property tied to church profiled in ‘7M TikTok Cult’ documentary

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged alleged cult, California, police raid, Robert Shinn, Shekinah Church

TUJUNGA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Search warrants were served and several people were detained Friday at a Tujunga property tied to Shekinah Church, which was founded by Robert Israel Shinn and was the subject of the documentary "Dancing for the…[Continue Reading...]

Tujunga home tied to alleged cult leader searched by federal officials

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alleged cult leader, California, police raid, Robert Shinn, TikTok dancers

A Tujunga home linked to the accused leader of an alleged cult was raided by federal agents and El Monte police as authorities served search warrants, alleging money laundering, sex trafficking and tax evasion. The property garnered infamy as it…[Continue Reading...]

FBI raids California home possibly linked to alleged ‘TikTok cult’ leader

Published July 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alleged cult leader, California, police raid, Robert Shinn

LOS ANGELES - Several people are in custody Friday following a raid conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at a Southern California home possibly tied to an alleged "TikTok cult" that was the subject of a 2024 Netflix…[Continue Reading...]

Late Jesuit global leader didn’t stop known child molester from becoming priest – court documents

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

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

Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s…[Continue Reading...]

These are nine celebrities you wouldn’t believe have ties to cults

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged celebrities, cults, Hollywood

While some celebrities’ followers feel like members of a cult (I’m looking at you dedicated Twitter accounts), these stars have been part of literal ones. Everyone knows the famous Scientologists: Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss, and John Travolta to name a…[Continue Reading...]