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The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson

Published April 16, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged anti-government extremists, conspiracy theories, Oklahoma Bombing, Timothy McVeigh

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. From a mother who lost her first-born baby,…[Continue Reading...]

Is your workplace a cult?

Published April 16, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged corporate cults, cults, workplace cults

Apple TV's hit show "Severance" depicts what could arguably be defined as a corporate cult, with the employees under an authoritative power and denied access to the outside world. But are cult-like cultures possible in a real-life workplace? If you…[Continue Reading...]

Daughter of slain Pennsylvania couple says she’s falsely accused in cult-linked deaths

Published April 16, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal chares, cult leader, cults, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, Michelle Zajko, murders, Zizians

Michelle Zajko’s denial was part of a 20-page handwritten “Open Letter to the World” her attorney provided to The Associated Press on Tuesday. Dated March 9, the letter also attempts to defend Jack LaSota, also known as Ziz, whom authorities…[Continue Reading...]

JMS cult leader indicted on further sexual assault charges

Published April 16, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, cults, indicted, Jeong Myeong-seok, Jesus Morning Star, JMS., South Korea

An 80-year-old religious cult leader already serving 17 years for raping and sexually assaulting his followers has been indicted on charges of assaulting four more victims. Jeong Myeong-seok, the leader of the Christian Gospel Mission religious cult, otherwise known as…[Continue Reading...]

LIVE UPDATES: Lori Daybell’s life insurance phone calls played on day 5 of Arizona trial

Published April 15, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged Arizona, cult mom, Lori Vallow, murder trial

Lori Vallow Daybell is on trial in Maricopa County, Arizona, on one charge of conspiracy to commit the murder of Charles Vallow, her fourth husband. Nate Eaton is live in the courtroom with updates. Please excuse any typos. Times listed…[Continue Reading...]

Federal Council does not want anti-drug posters throughout Switzerland

Published April 15, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged drug free world, posters, Scientologists, Scientology, Switzerland

At the end of 2024, eye-catching anti-drug posters appeared in Lausanne. The slogans read something like: "Inform your children before drug dealers do." The messages came from the association "Dites non à la drogue, oui à la vie", as reported…[Continue Reading...]

The Pope dissolves the ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium because it acted “like a sect” and was abusive.

Published April 15, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, cults, disolved, Luis Fernando Figari, Rman Catholic Church, Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana

Pope Francis has definitively suppressed the Peruvian-born apostolic group Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana (SVC), founded by layman, accused of being a sexual predator and leader of an organization that acted as a cult. The information was reported by several media…[Continue Reading...]

Iraq arrests about 150 members of extremist Qurban cult

Published April 15, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Al-Arif, arrests, cult leader, cults, Iraq, Qurban sect

Shafaq News/ On Monday, the Iraqi security forces arrested 148 members of the outlawed Qurban sect, including the group’s chief ideologue known as “Al-Arif.” Iraq’s National Security Service (INSS) chief, Abdul Karim Al-Basri, announced that the arrest took place in…[Continue Reading...]

Men behind Tennessee’s Christian nationalist settlement: ‘This country belongs to Jesus,’ not the Jews

Published April 14, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Andrew Isker, anti-Semtic, C.Jay Engel, Christian Nationalists, Tennessee

GAINESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — Here, in a small red-brick office building purchased by the developers trying to build a Christian nationalist community in rural Jackson County, two men are also attempting to build a right-wing podcasting business. As NewsChannel 5…[Continue Reading...]

‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic cult in Argentina

Published April 14, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse claims, Argentina, Opus Dei

“‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina”, The Guardian, April 14, 2025: “The first item Opus Dei gave 12-year-old Andrea Martínez was a pink dress. The second was a…[Continue Reading...]