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What is Scientology? Tom Cruise ‘wants to recruit Robert Irwin’ into the religion

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beliefs, celebrities, recruitment, Scientologists, Scientology, Scientology beliefs

Tom Cruise would reportedly like to find a new Scientology member and sees "huge potential" in this respect in zookeeper Robert Irwin. This follows the pair’s meeting at the Sydney premiere of Cruise’s film Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.…[Continue Reading...]

Does Tom Cruise See Suri? Katie Holmes Wants to ‘Protect’ Her From Scientology

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Katie Holmes, Scientologist, Scientology, Suri Cruise, Tom Cruise

It was one of the most high-profile celebrity relationships—and subsequent divorces—in recent memory, made all the more sensational thanks to his ties with the controversial Church of Scientology. Does Tom Cruise see Suri is a valid question, though the answer…[Continue Reading...]

Meet the Man Who Believes He is Actually Jesus Christ

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, cult leader, Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop, Vissarian

The Siberian Jesus Around 33 BC, history has it that Jesus, the son of Joseph, was born into the world to a newly wedded couple in Bethlehem. His birth has been symbolically celebrated, in the past few centuries, as the…[Continue Reading...]

Religious Sect Members Who Obtained $12 Million Through Manitoba Government Contracts Run Companies Out of Co-owned Building, Records Show

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Canada, emergency COVID-19 government contracts, Exclusive Brethren, government funding, Plymouth Brethren

Members of a controversial religious sect who obtained over $12 million through emergency COVID-19 government contracts in Manitoba operate multiple businesses out of a building they own together, corporate documents reveal. Acure Safety, Central Dental and Meditek are all Manitoba…[Continue Reading...]

‘One Tree Hill’ star Bethany Joy Lenz has ‘a lot to tell’ about being in a cult for 10 years. Here’s what we know so far.

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Bethany Joy Lenz, cults, leaving a cult, personal story

One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz is speaking out about the harrowing experience of escaping a cult. Speaking with her former OTH co-stars Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton Morgan on their Drama Queens podcast, Lenz opened up about one…[Continue Reading...]

NXIVM defectors seek leniency for blogger Frank Parlato

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal charges, Frank Parloto, New York, NXIVM, sentencing

ALBANY — Frank Parlato Jr. played a major role in the story of NXIVM — first as a publicist for Keith Raniere’s secretive organization, then as a fierce critic whose blog first exposed the abusive “master/slave” group within Raniere’s inner circle, revelations that eventually…[Continue Reading...]

Danny Masterson will NOT be retried on rape charge in which jurors failed to reach a verdict – and is now set to be sentenced in September for sexually assaulting two women at his Hollywood Hills home

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged convicted rapist, criminal convictions, Danny Masterson, Los Angeles, Scientology, sentencing

Prosecutors announced on Tuesday they will not retry actor Danny Masterson on a rape charge jurors failed to reach a verdict on earlier this year. In May, Masterson, 47, was convicted on two of three rape charges, but the jury was…[Continue Reading...]

Celebrities who have been in cults

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged celebrities in cults, cult members, cults, Hollywood

'One Tree Hill' alum Bethany Joy Lenz is finally ready to speak out about her experience in a cult for 10 years. On the July 10 episode of the 'Drama Queens' podcast, she told her former co-stars that she would…[Continue Reading...]

Charles Manson: Who was the infamous cult leader and what did he do?

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Manson, cults, Manson murders, Tate LaBianca murders

Charles Manson, the cult leader who orchestrated a string of gruesome murders by his “Family” of young acolytes in Los Angeles during the momentous summer of 1969, died aged 83 on 19 November 2017 after suffering a cardiac arrest arising…[Continue Reading...]

The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Manson, Manson Family murders, Tate LaBianca murders

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles. The killings remain etched in the American consciousness. On Tuesday, Leslie Van Houten was released after…[Continue Reading...]