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Cult leavers ‘often like refugees in their own country’

Published September 29, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult recovery, cults, New Zealand

Decult is being held at Christchurch’s Tūranga Central Library on October 19 and 20. It aims to bring together cult leavers, academic experts, advocates, and activists to "help raise awareness, build networks, and educate professionals who want to minimise harm".…[Continue Reading...]

‘I told women to get abortions’ – a cult survivor on brainwashing and regrets

Published September 28, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult conference, cults, Janja Lalich, New Zealand

San Francisco in the 1970s was exploding with liberation. From black rights to the first feminist advocacy group for sex workers, the Californian city was charged with an atmosphere of political change. So when the Vietnam War ended on April…[Continue Reading...]

GISB: unmasking the shadowy sect behind Malaysia’s worst child sex abuse scandal

Published September 28, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged child abuse, cult, Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holding, Malaysia

Celebration Mall had stood empty for years until new owners with grand ambitions swept in 24 years ago. Soon, the derelict shopping centre – nestled in the Bandar Country Homes neighbourhood of Rawang, Malaysia – was reborn into a bustling…[Continue Reading...]

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...]