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Lancaster Jehovah’s Witness member acquitted of decades-old sexual assault charges

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Jehovah's Witnesses Tagged child abuse, criminal charges, Pennsylvania, sexual abuse

A Lancaster County jury acquitted a Lancaster man of sexually assaulting his daughter over a five-year period 30 years ago. The jury deliberated about 90 minutes Tuesday before finding, 70, of the 400 block of Poplar Street, not guilty of…[Continue Reading...]

Church of Scientology seeks HQ protest ban

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged protests, Scientologists, Scientology, UK

The Church of Scientology has asked Mid Sussex District Council to impose an order stopping people from protesting outside its British headquarters in East Grinstead. A request for a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) was submitted to the council in…[Continue Reading...]

Mormon Church’s Real Estate Arm Buys 46 Farms Across 8 States

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Mormons Tagged farms, LDS, Mormon Church, real estate holdings

OMAHA (DTN) -- The real estate arm of the Mormon Church is growing larger this month after another corporate company announced a deal to sell it 46 farms totaling 41,554 acres for $289 million in an all-cash deal. Denver-based publicly…[Continue Reading...]

Infowars trademark, websites now up for auction

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Alex Jones, assets auction, bankruptcy, InfoWars

An asset liquidation firm has listed the television set, content library and brand assets of “InfoWars” up for auction following a bankruptcy court order against the show’s founder Alex Jones last month. The auction, scheduled for early November, includes the…[Continue Reading...]

Ex-cult member reflects on life inside banned Malaysian sect

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged child abuse, cult, Global Ikhwan Sevice and Business, Malaysia, survivor story

The man who grew up in al-Arqam recalled how happy he felt to be indoctrinated in the sect’s teachings before Malaysia banned it and offshoots for practicing what was deemed a deviant interpretation of Islam. Al-Arqam and a company started…[Continue Reading...]

‘Cult mom’ killer Lori Vallow makes bizarre claims about her children’s murders in phone call from jail to son’s podcast

Published October 9, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, convicted murderer, cult leader, cult mom, Idaho, Lori Vallow, murders

Lori Vallow, the so-called “cult mom” who was found guilty last year of murdering her two children, has claimed for the first time that her daughter was to blame for the death of her son — and that the teenager…[Continue Reading...]

Kim Ji-sun (46), an accomplice of Chung Myung-seok (78), the president of the Christian Gospel Mission (JMS), who sexually assaulted and molested Goddess Island, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court. [Photo source = PD’s notebook]

Published October 8, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged criminal convictions, cultt Christian Gospel Mission, JMS., prison sentence, Providence Church, sexual abuse, South Korea

Kim Ji-sun (46), an accomplice of Chung Myung-seok (78), the president of the Christian Gospel Mission (JMS), who sexually assaulted and molested Goddess Island, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court. The second division of the…[Continue Reading...]

Utah is so gay!

Published October 8, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Mormons Tagged gay Mormons, LDS, LGBT, Mormon Church, Salt Lake City, Utah

‘Salt Lake is a very queer place,’ said the historian J Seth Anderson after he and his husband became the first gay couple to be married in Utah, in 2013. When most non-Utahns think of the state, probably the last…[Continue Reading...]

Controversial Philippine televangelist wanted by US for sex trafficking to run for senate

Published October 8, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Apollo Quiboloy, criminal charges, cult, cult leader, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Philippines, senate election

MANILA – A detained Philippine pastor who is also wanted in the US for sex trafficking children registered on Oct 8 to run in next year’s senate elections. Apollo Quiboloy, an ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte, is a self-proclaimed…[Continue Reading...]

24 junior ministers had Unification Church ties

Published October 8, 2024 By admin

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

Twenty-four of the 54 state ministers and parliamentary vice ministers in Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet had ties to the religious group Unification Church, according to an analysis by The Asahi Shimbun. However, none were found to have been implicated…[Continue Reading...]