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Death Toll In Kenya Starvation Cult Case Crosses 400: Official

Published July 17, 2023 By admin

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

The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has exceeded 400 after 12 more bodies were found on Monday, a senior official said. "Total death Toll - 403," Coast Regional…[Continue Reading...]

Here’s Why Those ‘South Park’ Episodes With Tom Cruise Aren’t Available To Stream on Max

Published July 17, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Scientology, South Park, Tom Cruise, Trapped in the Closet

While South Park has wrestled with many controversies over its quarter-of-a-century run, most of them have come and gone to pass without much lingering behind. Their famous bout with Scientology, "Trapped in the Closet," garnered a lot of attention both…[Continue Reading...]

Education Review Office reviewing Gloriavale School after Employment Court case

Published July 17, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alleged cult leader, Gloriavale, government review, Neville Cooper, New Zealand, schools

Gloriavale School is under review by the Education Review Office, the Ministry of Education has confirmed. Serenity Pilgrim, Anna Courage, Rose Standtrue, Crystal Loyal, Pearl Valor and Virginia Courage took Gloriavale's leaders to court, arguing they lived in servitude working…[Continue Reading...]

RFK Jr revives antisemitic conspiracy theory that Covid-19 was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jewish people

Published July 16, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, Covid, Jews, pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr has revived an antisemitic conspiracy that blames Jewish people for the emergence of Covid-19, a claim that follows a string of offensive statements and falsehoods elevated by the long-shot candidate for the US…[Continue Reading...]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Finally Get Around to the Jews

Published July 16, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, Covid, Jews, pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The most astonishing aspect, and perhaps the only redeeming thing, about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s spree of conspiracy theories is that it had improbably managed to avoid directly implicating the Jews. But the respite from anti-Semitism was doomed to end.…[Continue Reading...]

I was born into one of the world’s most notorious religious cults, we thought Armageddon was coming

Published July 16, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged childhood cult member, Children of God, cult, cult leader, Moses David Berg

‘If you think about growing up, pretty much every three years was some deadline for when the world was going to end or Armageddon was going to show up.’ Public spanking with paddles or belts were commonplace, she claims, as…[Continue Reading...]

Archdiocese of Seattle settles 2 sexual abuse claims against clergy members

Published July 15, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged Archdiocese of Seattle, Brother D.P. Ryan, clergy abuse, Father John Forrester, lawsuit settlement, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

SEATTLE - The Archdiocese of Seattle announced final settlements for two separate claims related to allegations of sexual abuse by clergy members a few decades ago. The claims involved Brother D.P. Ryan who served at O'Dea High School in Seattle…[Continue Reading...]

Leslie Van Houten was a teenage follower of Charles Manson. After half a century behind bars for murder, she’s now free

Published July 15, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged California, Charles Manson, cult folllower, cult leader, Leslie Van Houten, Manson murders, parole release, Tate-LaBianca muders

It was in a jail cell that former Manson family cult member Leslie Van Houten finally found freedom. Or so she said, grinning, in a video interview recorded six years after she was sentenced to death for her part in…[Continue Reading...]

How Tom Cruise Got Us to Forget About His Scientology Ties

Published July 15, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise

There are movie stars and then there is Tom Cruise. Forty years a star, enough classics to make listing even a few here pointless, and, now, someone who can stake a legitimate claim to saving Hollywood (or at least jolting…[Continue Reading...]

Police Dismantle Sexually Abusive “Shamanic” Sect in Spain

Published July 15, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, shamanistic cult, Soul Family, Spain

At least a hundred young people may have been sexually abused by a “shamanic” sect in Spain that allegedly used various kinds of drugs and made followers pay as much as €10,000 to access the heads of the group. The…[Continue Reading...]