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Katie Holmes May Have Had More Than One Reason to End Her Tom Cruise Marriage

Published April 21, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Katie Holmes, Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise

Katie Holmes’s marriage to Tom Cruise is getting revisited because their daughter, Suri Cruise, turns 18 on April 18. While the Dawson’s Creek actress has remained silent about her divorce from the action star, the presumed reason was to keep…[Continue Reading...]

‘Sounds Like a Cult’ Podcast Creator Sues Former Co-Host

Published April 21, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Amanda Montell, cult podcast, lawsuit

The popular “Sounds Like a Cult” podcast has been beset by allegations of abusive behavior, artistic differences, and business disputes, culminating in the creator suing her former co-host for half a million bucks. Writer Amanda Montell, the original creator of…[Continue Reading...]

“They were very controlling”: the cult Michelle Pfeiffer got caught up in

Published April 21, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Breatharians, cult, Michelle Pheiffer, survivor story

Most people of sound and reasonable mind probably believe they’re too switched-on to fall prey to being indoctrinated into a cult, but Michelle Pfeiffer ended up falling in with a very unusual group without even realising until long afterwards that…[Continue Reading...]

Judge sanctions attorney who filed last minute, error-filled motion to have Daybell case delayed

Published April 21, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, cult leader, Idaho, murder trial

BOISE — Judge Steven Boyce sanctioned a Mountain Home lawyer Thursday afternoon for filing a late-night error-filled motion asking to intervene in the murder case of Chad Daybell. Boyce told attorney Terry Ratliff he was angry when the motion was…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the Kenyan Cult That Starved Itself to Death

Published April 20, 2024 By admin

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

It started with one family. Then another arrived, then another. Soon there were enough of them to begin clearing a section of the forest, cutting down the moringa and acacia trees, and uprooting thick shrubs. The forest, known as Shakahola,…[Continue Reading...]

‘Cried every day’: Kenya cult families struggle for closure

Published April 20, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult lader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, grieving families, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last…[Continue Reading...]

The Cult Killings of Shakahola

Published April 20, 2024 By admin

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

In April 2023, following a missing-person report filed by a man whose wife and daughter had left their home to join a church owned by preacher Paul Mackenzie, Kenyan police raided Mackenzie’s 800-acre commune in Shakahola forest on Kenya’s coast…[Continue Reading...]

Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell used ‘castings’ to pray for spouses’ deaths, ex-friend testifies

Published April 20, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, cult leader, Idaho, murder trial

BOISE, Idaho — Melanie Gibb, the former best friend of Lori Vallow Daybell, testified Thursday about multiple disturbing conversations she had with Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell in the months before and during the murders of Vallow Daybell’s husband and…[Continue Reading...]

Is Church of Scientology Best Judge Of Whether Church Of Scientology Forced Teen To Marry Her Rapist?

Published April 19, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse allegations, lawsuit, Scientologists, Scientology

In 1991, the Church of Scientology was made aware of the fact that a 16-year-old girl was being regularly sexually abused by a 26-year-old Sea Org member. Naturally, instead of reporting this to police, the CoS told the girl that…[Continue Reading...]

Tom Cruise reportedly bans ex-wife Nicole Kidman from their son’s wedding to ‘Scientologist princess’

Published April 19, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Connonr Cruise, Nicole Kidnan, Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise, wedding

Tom Cruise has banned his ex-wife Nicole Kidman from the wedding of their son Connor, who they adopted in the mid-1990s, during their marriage. When Kidman split from Cruise in 2001, she also left the Church of Scientology, of which…[Continue Reading...]