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‘From Healing to Horror’: Was Synanon, the Rehab Program that Became a Religious Movement, a Cult?

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Dederich, cult leader, cults, Synanon

Before there were organizations in place to help people with drug addiction, the landscape for people with these problems was harsh and unforgiving. In the late 1950s, Charles "Chuck" Dederich wanted to change that. Dederich — who was open about…[Continue Reading...]

Hosoda name now a ‘liability’ for LDP in Shimane election

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized

In his final years, Hosoda was accused of sexually harassing reporters and criticized for his links with the Unification Church, now formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, which has come under fire for unscrupulous fund-raising practices.[Continue Reading...]

Here Are the Top 10 Celebrities Locked in Feuds with Tom Cruise

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Hollywood, Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise's career has taken a turn for the better in the last few years. Cruise has made his way back into Hollywood's good graces despite decades of questionable behavior. Over the course of his Hollywood career, his personal life…[Continue Reading...]

Gloriavale’s treatment of woman ‘disturbing’, says former MP after visit to community

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse, cult leader, Gloriavale, Neville Cooper, New Zealand, women abused

Former MP Catherine Delahunty has revealed her brush with the Gloriavale community left her “disturbed” and “heartbroken” for the women there. The ex-Green MP said during a 2015 visit to the West Coast Christian community she witnessed institutionalised misogyny that…[Continue Reading...]

Real Life: Nelson Labour MP Rachel Boyack’s brush with ‘cult-like’ religious sect

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged college campuses, International Church of Christ, Kip McKean, New Zealand, recruitment

Nelson MP Rachel Boyack says she “nearly ended up in a cult” as a teenager, but escaped after just a few weeks after growing suspicious with the group’s “dodgy” behaviour. The Labour politician was briefly a member of the International…[Continue Reading...]

Inside ISIS-K cult behind Moscow massacre – beheadings, killing girls and hating Putin

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged ISIS, ISIS K, massacre, Moscow, Russia, terrorist attack

The barbaric killing squad behind the brutal massacre of 137 people at a concert in Moscow are known as ISIS-K. Russia's capital was rocked on Friday when harrowing footage appeared to show camouflaged gunmen shooting civilians at point-blank range inside…[Continue Reading...]

Children Of A Polygamist Cult Leader Talk About Finding A Career After Leaving A Cult

Published March 25, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, kids, polygamist cults, transition difficulties

Despite being afraid, Anna, Celia, and Hyrum LeBaron left their father’s cult and risked being killed. The siblings, three of Ervil LeBaron’s many children, refuse to let their trauma define them. Although they experienced abuse of all kinds, all three…[Continue Reading...]

What is ISIS-K, the group that claims it carried out the Moscow concert attack?

Published March 24, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged ISIK K, ISIS, Moscow, Russia, terrorist attack, What is ISIS KJ

The death toll from an attack on a concert hall in Moscow continues to rise. U.S. officials say they believe an organization known as ISIS-K, or the Islamic State Khorasan Province, carried out the strike. The group claimed responsibility on…[Continue Reading...]

The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave

Published March 24, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, Manhattan, New York, New Yorker Hotel, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. For a…[Continue Reading...]

Herbalife, Amway and Mary Kay: How multi-level marketing ‘pyramid schemes’ are bankrupting America

Published March 24, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged MLM, multi level marketing scam, multi-level marketing

When 23-year-old college graduate Julie was invited to a “girls night party” where the guests were told by a woman named Shawna from a company called Pure Romance that they could make big bucks selling middle-class suburban housewives “bullet vibrators…[Continue Reading...]