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I ran for my life through Guatemala jungle to escape extremist Jewish cult where I was starved and witnessed horrific child abuse… now I’m fighting for my siblings to come home

Published August 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes

Yisrael Amir was only 14-years-old when he was snatched from Israel to Guatemala by his father using forged passports to live among an extremist Jewish cult. The teenager and his five siblings were promised that their new life in Central…[Continue Reading...]

Where Are Warren Jeffs’ 80 Wives Now? A Look at Their Lives After the Cult Leader Was Imprisoned for Sexually Assaulting Minors

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cimrinal convictions, cult leader, FLDS, polygsmist cult, prison sentence, Warren Jeffs

Warren Jeffs called himself a prophet, but he was, in reality, a polygamist cult leader and a perpetrator of sexual abuse. As the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of Mormonism, Warren forced marriages…[Continue Reading...]

TikTok explodes as Scientology leader’s niece launches channel to reveal secrets, says she won’t be silenced

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged David Miscavige, Jenna Miscavige, Scientologists, Scientology, survior story

Scientology is weaker now than it’s been in decades. Membership has been in steep decline since its height in the 1990s, from around 100,000 members globally to around 20,000-30,000 today. Much of that’s due to the massive negative publicity against…[Continue Reading...]

DEEP DIVE: When friendships turn abusive, what do you do?

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse controlling relationships, abusive friendships, discussion

Whether it's obsessively tracking your location or isolating you from your other mates, sometimes friends aren't just toxic, they're abusive. We're getting better at talking about coercive control in romantic relationships, but it happens among friends too. In fact, it…[Continue Reading...]

The Surprising Reason Conspiracies Draw People In, According to Science

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, critical analysis, research

Agrowing body of research suggests that people are drawn into conspiracy theories not because they are gullible or irrational, but because of a powerful social force: community. A new five-year ethnographic study by researchers from the University of Bath and…[Continue Reading...]

Florida’s Cults: A Hidden History of Fringe Faiths, Control & Utopian Dreams

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized

Fla. News Network —Beneath the surface of Florida's sunny reputation lies a less familiar, darker history. One populated by unconventional communities, utopian experiments, and groups that many would label as cults. This aspect of Florida's past and present reveals much…[Continue Reading...]

Psychologist and cult survivor provides inside look into sovereign citizen movement as search for accused cop killer enters fifth day

Published August 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged anti-gvovernment extremists, Australia, fuguitive, Sovereign Citizens

A psychologist who specialises in cult groups has provided a fresh insight into the sovereign citizen belief system, after a member of the dangerous ideological sect allegedly shot and killed two police officers in rural Victoria. Freeman has displayed a…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya exhumes 32 bodies as outcry grows over starvation cult deaths

Published August 29, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, cults, deaths, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie

Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism of authorities who had vowed to crack down on extremist sects after hundreds of members of a doomsday cult died…[Continue Reading...]

South Korea’s ex-first lady indicted for bribery

Published August 29, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged bribery, political influence, South Korea, Unification Church

Kim Keon Hee and her husband are in jail, with Yoon on trial for insurrection and other charges following his April ouster over a disastrous bid to impose martial law in December. The 52-year-old ex-first lady has been investigated over…[Continue Reading...]

Ex-Scientologist describes child labor, church code of silence

Published August 29, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged child labor allegations, Jenna Miscavige, Scientologists, Scientology

(NewsNation) — Jenna Miscavige, the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, says the childhood she spent toiling for the church makes sense, at least to adherents of the religion. The former Scientologist described to “Banfield” how she was isolated at…[Continue Reading...]