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‘I married a stranger at a mass wedding’: Life inside the Unification Church

Published March 5, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, former member, Moonie marriage, personal story, Sun Mung Moon, Unification Church

When Jinae first met her husband, she could hardly communicate with him. He was from Japan and she was brought up in the US, but according to Jinae this "was kind of normal in the church". She was born into…[Continue Reading...]

How Australian Doomsday cult leader lured a 14-year-old girl into sex by posing as the Virgin Mary before fathering her child – and the discovery of old letters that sealed his downfall

Published March 5, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Australia, cult leader, Little Pebble, pedophile, sexual abuse, William Costellia Kamm

In 1993, teenager Stefanie Hinrichs was dreaming of owning a horse, leaving school, and marrying Hollywood heart-throb Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the dreamy 13-year-old. Stefanie's devout German family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by…[Continue Reading...]

Army solider who plotted unit ambush with satanic neo-Nazi cult sentenced to 45 years

Published March 4, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal convictions, Ethan Melzer, neo nazis, online hate groups, terrorist, terrorist plot

MANHATTAN (CN) — The former U.S. Army private who plotted with a satanic neo-Nazi cult to ambush his unit in a mass-casualty attack was sentenced Friday to 45 years in federal prison. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York…[Continue Reading...]

Female cult leaders, clay creatures and pink rooms: highlights from this year’s Outsider Art Fair in New York

Published March 4, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged art exhibit, cult leaders, cults

The Outsider Art Fair’s 31st edition has brought 64 galleries’ stands of work from self-taught, folk, naïve and outsider artists—including 12 first-time exhibitors—to New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. As ever, the fair is a rich and eclectic offering; below…[Continue Reading...]

The Mysterious Woo-Anon ‘Sisterhood’ Tearing Families Apart

Published March 4, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult allegations, Liana Shanti, Lumerian Mystery School, online guru

Jason and Jennifer Veras had been together since high school. “We were a loving family. We were a happy family. We barely had any issues throughout our 23 years in a relationship,” Jason said. “Until she brought Liana Shanti into…[Continue Reading...]

‘In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal’: Kim Ki-Soon’s Baby Garden Cult, Mistreatment, and Death of a Young Boy

Published March 4, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Baby Garden, cult leader, docuseries, Kim Ki-soon, Korean cult

Audiences of Netflix’s In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal are advised that the docuseries goes into detail about the crimes committed at Kim Ki-soon’s Baby Garden cult. While the crimes of JMS leader Jeong Myeong-seok seemed appalling, Baby…[Continue Reading...]

Star witness admits she stole $1 million from husband during cross-examination in psychic fraud trial

Published March 3, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized

TAMPA, Fla. - Another twist came in the psychic fraud trial of Jaycee Wasso when the state’s star witness, Lin Halfon, admitted under cross-examination Thursday that she, not Wasso, is the one who stole $1 million from her wealthy older…[Continue Reading...]

The neo-Nazi movement behind the plot to blackout Baltimore

Published March 3, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Balatimore, domestic terrorists, neo nazis, terrorism

The two neo-Nazis charged with federal crimes for plotting to attack Baltimore’s energy grid support a decades-old doctrine to push the country into armed racial conflict. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology…[Continue Reading...]

‘I was radicalised by the far right aged 15’

Published March 3, 2023 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged far right, hate groups, radical extremists, radicalization

A former right-wing extremist has described how he was radicalised as a 15-year-old boy in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. John said he wanted to speak out as a way of warning other young people, particularly about the…[Continue Reading...]

Finding Queer Family Within and Without FaithQueer podcasters unpack evangelicalism in How Gay Thou Art

Published March 3, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Christian fundamentalists, evangelicals, LGBT, Queer podcast

It took divorce on Keller’s end and joining a cult on Austen’s, but both eventually left the church in adulthood and came to terms with their queer identities. The duo started their podcast, How Gay Thou Art, last October to…[Continue Reading...]