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Danny Masterson’s rape retrial: Key things to know

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Five months after a deadlocked jury led to a mistrial for actor Danny Masterson, the former star of "That '70s Show" is about to be retried in a Los Angeles court. Masterson is accused of raping three women between 2001…[Continue Reading...]

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FLDS, missing children, polygamist groups, Polygamists

“This is child trafficking. This is kidnapping,” said Lorraine Jessop. Several former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs, are calling on law enforcement officers and prosecutors to help them find…[Continue Reading...]

Three Bodies Exhumed In Kenya As Cult Probe Deepens

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

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

Kenyan police said Friday that they had exhumed three bodies, presumed members of a religious cult believed to have starved themselves to death, in the east of the country as they widened an inquiry. "The exhumation process is still ongoing…[Continue Reading...]

Seeing witches: The cult-like church and the crash that rocked Victoria

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, car crash, Christian Fellowship Churches, deaths, Potter's House, Wayman Mitchell

Outside a cavernous warehouse on a chilly afternoon on Melbourne’s fringe, two men are praying, one laying his hands on the other. Surrounded by prime mover trucks being loaded to travel vast distances across the state, one of the men…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan police probe Christian cult after discovery of over a dozen graves

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

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

Kenyan police have begun marking out the locations of more than a dozen suspected graves in the east of the country thought to contain the remains of followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the Source Family, bizarre Hollywood cult whose members practiced ‘mystical sex’, as its story is about to be told in TV series starring Mark Ruffalo

Published April 22, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized

The story of one of Los Angeles' first wellness cults is reportedly being adapted into a television series starring Mark Ruffalo. Known as the Source Family, the group had a prominent flash in the pan from the late 1960s until…[Continue Reading...]

Ralph Yarl – update: Andrew Lester’s family ‘disgusted’ by shooting as stand your ground laws in spotlight

Published April 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Andrew Lester, conspiracy theories, QAnon, racist, Ralph Yarl, shooter, shooting

The family of suspected shooter Andrew Lester have said they are “disgusted” by the 84-year-old’s shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl. Mr Lester’s grandson Klint Ludwig told CNN that “myself and my family stand with Ralph Yarl and seeking justice”.…[Continue Reading...]

Police arraign 26 people for alleged involvement in cult war, killings

Published April 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal arrests, cults, gangs, Nigeria

The police in Enugu State, south-east Nigeria, said they have arraigned 26 persons for their alleged involvement in recent cult attacks and killings in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on…[Continue Reading...]

Lori Vallow told cult followers they would need to separate themselves from their children to fulfill ‘greater mission,’ witness testifies

Published April 21, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged court testimony, cult mom, family estrangements, Idaho, Lore Vallow, murder trial

BOISE, IDAHO — Two witnesses in Lori Vallow's sensational murder trial testified about how she attempted to recruit them into a cult with promises that they would be spared imminent doomsday. David Dale Warwick, husband of a member of the…[Continue Reading...]

Cult Survivor Empowers Other Victims Breaking Free of Coercive Control

Published April 20, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged coercive control, cult recovery, cults, volunteer work

Meet Daily Point of Light Award honoree Tabby Chapman. April is Global Volunteer Month, a global movement to recognize volunteers and people who actively support their communities, whether through volunteerism or other elements around the Points of Light Civic Circle®, like Tabby.…[Continue Reading...]