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Shame and Secrecy: Abuse in the Middle and Upper Classes — Coercive control adapts to context; wealth and status can’t protect you.

Published October 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Abusive controlling relationships, coercive control, domestic abuse

Yesterday, a reader sent me a Belfast Telegraph article about a woman (a fully qualified doctor from Northern Ireland), who was subjected to severe physical and psychological violence by her abusive boyfriend. He strangled her repeatedly, spat at her, called…[Continue Reading...]

Senior cop tells the court how Pastor MACKENZIE instructed his brainwashed followers to go on hunger strike in custody and ate secretly

Published October 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged brainwasing, criminal trial, cult, cult leader, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie

Thursday, October 30, 2025 - A police witness has told the court that controversial preacher pastor, Paul Mackenzie, secretly ate in police custody while his followers continued fasting, believing it would help them evade criminal charges. Testifying before Principal Magistrate…[Continue Reading...]

Hearings on Unification Church dissolution order to end in November

Published October 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, dissiolution, Japan, liquidation, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

Court hearings are expected to end in November over an order to dissolve the Unification Church, which allegedly inspired the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three years ago. The Tokyo High Court is examining an appeal against…[Continue Reading...]

How to help friends and family dig out of a conspiracy theory black hole

Published October 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, debunking, helping victims

Someone I know became a conspiracy theorist seemingly overnight. It was during the pandemic, and out of nowhere, they suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and masks, warning of an attempt to control us…[Continue Reading...]

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest against conscription

Published October 31, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Haredi, Israel, military draft, ultra Orthodox Jewish sects, ultra-Orthodox Jews

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, community…[Continue Reading...]

What Kenya needs to do to prevent another Shakahola

Published October 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, death cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackezie

An old Swahili proverb goes, "Kashangae ferry meli inaelea shilingi inazama (He is surprised that the ferry floats, yet the coin sinks)." It's about the tribal wisdom of accepting that much as you try, some things won't make sense. The…[Continue Reading...]

“I talked with God…” The strange history of Moscow’s ‘mail-order cult’

Published October 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Fronk Robinson, Phychiana

Long before Haunted Palouse, Scarywood or other local attractions became Palouse Halloween staples, Moscow, Idaho, had a mysterious phenomenon of its own, which all began with a postage stamp. Created in 1929 by Moscow pharmacist and resident, Frank Robinson, ‘Phychiana’…[Continue Reading...]

‘It breaks you down into tiny pieces but no one believes you’ – inside the UK’s silent abuse epidemic

Published October 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abusive controlling relationships, coercive control, criminal law, domestic violence, UK

We were in the smoking area, a place where strangers pull out their secrets and present them to the group, to an echo of, ‘Babe, I’ve been there.’ It was a ‘girls’ afternoon’ that was rapidly turning into a girls’…[Continue Reading...]

Man pleads guilty to killing Shinzo Abe

Published October 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abe assassination, criminal trial, guilty plea, Japan, Unification Church

The gunman accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe yesterday pleaded guilty, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning in a nation with little experience of gun violence, and…[Continue Reading...]

Alleged ‘764’ Cult Follower Charged With Child Sex Crime Amid Crackdown On Terror Network

Published October 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged 764, California, child abuse, criminal conviction, cults, online cult

Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a 19-year-old California man linked to the extremist “764” cult with a string of crimes, including child sexual exploitation, animal abuse, and online threats. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of California indicted…[Continue Reading...]