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2 killed in Lagos cult clash

Published February 14, 2023 By admin with Comments 2

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, gangs, Lagos, Nigeria, violence

Two suspected members of Aiye and Eiye confraternities were killed at the weekend while many sustained machete cuts in a renewed war between the rival cult gangs in the Ijanikin area of Lagos. The clash almost grounded commercial activities and…[Continue Reading...]

Cult member talks through ‘benefits’ of castration before mass suicide that took dozens of lives

Published February 14, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brainwashing, California, castration, cult leader, cult suicide, Heaven's Gate, Marshall Applewhite

You may be familiar with the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who orchestrated a mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of hopping on a spaceship to embark on a new life. But before the traumatic event, some of the cult…[Continue Reading...]

Weird Scientology Super Bowl commercial says “hope” comes from the cans

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized

According to Scientology hope for humanity comes from submitting to "spiritual counseling" (aka "auditing") while clutching the cans connected to what Scientologists call the "E-Meter, which is a galvanic response measuring apparatus, part of what is commonly called a "lie…[Continue Reading...]

Abuse at the hands of ‘phoney prophet’: Inside cult linked to Constance Marten

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult allegations, Mark Gordon, self-proclaimed prophet, UK

A missing aristocrat who is on the run with her rapist partner and newborn baby may have been brainwashed at a Nigerian church where “disciples” were allegedly abused by the group’s self-proclaimed prophet. Constance Marten, who has been missing with…[Continue Reading...]

Fiji Launches Investigation into Sect after OCCRP Report

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Fiji, government investigation, Grace Road Church, South Korea

Fiji’s newly elected government has launched a probe into a South Korean doomsday sect, after an OCCRP investigation exposed how the religious group had come to be a dominating force in the Pacific nation’s economy. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka told…[Continue Reading...]

‘Gloriavale: New Zealand’s Secret Cult’: Doc On Notorious Religious Group Lands Sales Deal Ahead Of EFM

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized

EXCLUSIVE: MetFilm Sales has acquired world rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Gloriavale: New Zealand’s Secret Cult, Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth’s feature doc about a notorious kiwi religious cult. MetFilm will shop the doc to international buyers at…[Continue Reading...]

Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, cults, Keith Raniere, NXIVM

As the trial of NXIVM mastermind Keith Raniere proves, the line between self-help and cult-hood can be a tricky one to parse, as well as a scary one to contend with if left unchecked. In her book Don’t Call it…[Continue Reading...]

Pastor’s wife abducted, raped to death in Rivers

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Africa, cults. gangs, Nigeria, violence

Criminals suspected be members of Iceland cult groups have abducted and raped one Mrs. Chigbewejim Lawyer to death few hours after she was abducted from her Abarikpo community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The mother of two…[Continue Reading...]

Lyndon LaRouche Was the Godfather of Political Paranoia. His Cult Is Still Alive and Unwell.

Published February 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, cult leader, Lyndon LaRouche

It didn’t get a lot of attention, but back in November, a candidate representing one of the country’s most successful homegrown fascist movements got a little over 25,000 votes in her bid for Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat. This was Diane…[Continue Reading...]

Evangelical group facing backlash over Super Bowl Jesus commercials: report

Published February 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Christian fundamentalists, commercials, evangelicals, fundamentalists, Super Super Bowl

According to a report from CNN, two commercials that will run during Sunday's widely-viewed Super Bowl are stirring up a hornet's nest of opposition from Christians which has the spokesperson for the evangelical group behind the adsattempting to calm the…[Continue Reading...]