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Many feared dead as cult groups clash in Imo

Published September 28, 2024 By admin

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

The incident, which occurred on Thursday, was said to have started when the cult members engaged in a gun duel over supremacy and territoriality. An indigene of the community who spoke to TheCable said the cultists shot more than 10…[Continue Reading...]

My years in a cult that groomed children to have sex with adults

Published September 28, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, cult leader, survivor story

When Prem Sargam was six years old, her father left his job with IBM and disappeared from their home in Devon to join an ashram in Pune, India, in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment as a sannyasin or religious adherent. She…[Continue Reading...]

US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged bankaruptch settlement, Diocese of Rockville Center, New York, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York, announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323m to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused by priests when they were children. The…[Continue Reading...]

Police investigation into GISBH ‘organised crime’ network unearth coercion, rampant brainwashing to ensure loyalty, and multiple brides as reward

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal investigation, cult, Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holding, Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — Ongoing police investigations into Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) have found mass brainwashing within the group to enforce devotion to its top leaders as well as threats, blackmail and the offer…[Continue Reading...]

Prosecution rests in fundamentalist Mormon child sex abuse trial

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, criminal trial, cult leader, Polygamist cult, Samuel Bateman, sexual abuse charges

PHOENIX (CN) — The prosecution in a federal trial against two Arizona men accused of aiding and abetting a child sex abuse ring within a fundamentalist Mormon sect rested its case Thursday afternoon, closing with a witness who says she…[Continue Reading...]

Former ‘die-hard believer’ of QAnon explains what finally made her question the conspiracy theory

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, QAnon, survivor story

QAnon is believed to have first started in 2017 after an anonymous poster, who hailed themselves as 'Q', alleged that they had a level of US security approval known as 'Q clearance'. Using the message board 4chan, the person started…[Continue Reading...]

Kids in Apollo Quiboloy sect’s care up for relocation

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Apollo Quiboloy, child abuse, cult, cult leader, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, survivors

MANILA, Philippines — Adoption and family reintegration are being planned for 32 children who are in shelters funded by the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC), whose assets were frozen last month after its televangelist founder Apollo Quiboloy was charged with…[Continue Reading...]

How a cult is formed and danger signs to watch for

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, defining cults, destructive cults, warning signs

You are most likely steeped in a cult if your “spiritual daddy or mum” is charismatic, intolerant, controlling, divisive, abusive and demanding too much of you. If you consider your “Apostle”, “Prophet”, “Bishop”, “Pastor”, or “Servant of God”, a genius,…[Continue Reading...]

‘There’s no going back’: A survivor’s story of a cult’s manipulation and exploitation

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Atman Yoga Federation, cult, cult leader, Gregorian Bivolaru, MISA, Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute

This article contains distressing content. Bec Sonkkila was in her late 20s and newly in love with yoga when she first heard of the Mahasiddha yoga school in the Indian city of Rishikesh and decided to visit for a month.…[Continue Reading...]

Missy Mazzoli’s ‘The Listeners’ portraying life in a cult gets U.S. premiere at Opera Philadelphia

Published September 27, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult opera, cults, opera about cults

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Missy Mazzoli received an Opera Philadelphia composing commission around the time Donald Trump first was running for president, inspiring her to settle on a sect with faithful followers as a starting point with her librettist, Royce Vavrek.…[Continue Reading...]

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