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Catholic clergy in Portugal sexually abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, inquiry finds

Published February 14, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged clergy abuse, Portugal, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims' accounts. Thousands of reports of paedophilia within the Catholic Church have surfaced around the world and Pope Francis…[Continue Reading...]

Jinger Duggar’s Escape From Family’s Cult-Like Religion Landed Her in Another Shady Church

Published February 14, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Grace Community Church, Jinger Duggar, John MacArthur

While plenty of people are praising Jinger Duggar for leaving her 19 Kids and Counting family's uber strict religious sect behind, there are a few quiet murmurs about just how much freedom she's found with husband Jeremy Vuolo. In fact,…[Continue Reading...]

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...]