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Woman laments loss of newborn to birth complications, blames rigid church doctrine

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, medical neglect, sects

A heartbroken mother has shared her painful experience of losing her newborn due to childbirth complications worsened by her church’s strict prohibition of medical care. In a viral account, the woman recounted being raised in a religious sect that forbade…[Continue Reading...]

Mum on run from religious drug cult in US wins battle to keep kids in Scotland

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged children protected, cults, legal action, Scotland

A mum has won a legal battle in Scotland's highest court to protect her two young children from a religious drug cult. The unnamed woman fled to Scotland from the USA with them 20 months ago to escape the Santo…[Continue Reading...]

Don’t think you’re the type to join a cult? Gloria didn’t think she was either

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, cult leader, cults, Lee Man-Hee, recruitment tactics, Shincheonji Church of Jesus, survivor story

Gloria had been shopping at Melbourne Central on an ordinary morning in 2019 when a man approached her, asking her to do a survey. It seemed like an innocent interaction, but one she would later learn was part of a…[Continue Reading...]

Chinese Missionary Cult Trying to Lure Jews

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Church of Salmighty God, cult recruitment, cults, targeting Jews

“Jewish” content that has been circulating on social networks and WhatsApp is actually a ploy by a new missionary group to engage Jews in dialogue and convert them, Yad L’Achim has revealed. Behind the deceptive content is a cult called…[Continue Reading...]

Cult Survivors to speak at Ventfort Hall

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Carl Stevens, cult leader, cults, survivr stories, The Bible Speacks

LENOX, Mass. — Hear sisters, Elita Galvin and Karen Briggs, share their stories of how they grew up in a cult, The Bible Speaks, on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 4 pm at the mansion. A tea will be served after…[Continue Reading...]

‘You’re sold a lie’: How do you spot a cult?

Published August 2, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged coercive control, cults, warning signs, warning sings

For seven years of her twenties, Gillie Jenkinson was in a religious cult. She recalls being told what to eat, when to sleep and what clothes to wear. "It was completely coercive, controlling," she says, going on to add that…[Continue Reading...]

Attorney and convicted child sex offender with Palmyra connection disbarred

Published August 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse, Mormons Tagged child abuse, criminal charges, LDS, Mormon Church, sexual abuse, Shawn Cory Gooden, Vierginia

A Pennsylvania attorney with a registered address in Palmyra has given up his license to practice law as the result of child sexual assault convictions in Virginia and pending child sex charges in Berks County. On July 30, the Pennsylvania…[Continue Reading...]

A New Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Is Recruiting Children as Young as 12

Published August 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged children, Milikolosskrieg, neo nazis, online recruitment

At the start of this year, residents woke up to find troubling graffiti sprayed across several locations in the Bad Herrenalb district of southwestern Germany. Alongside the names of well-known extremist networks like No Lives Matter (NLM) and 764, there…[Continue Reading...]

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

Published August 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged minor children, online games, radicalisation, radiclaization, recruitment, video games

Far-right extremists are using livestream gaming platforms to target and radicalise teenage players, a report has warned. The new research, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, reveals how a range of extremist groups and individuals use platforms that allow…[Continue Reading...]

The Jehovah’s Witnesses who left the faith and never looked back: ‘I was 37 and had only ever held a boy’s hand’

Published August 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged ex-Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses, personal stories, survivor stories

Micki McAllen speaks matter-of-factly about all the times she was told the world was about to end. The September 11 attacks. Donald Trump’s election. Covid. Each time, she and her family – strict Jehovah’s Witnesses – would wait with a…[Continue Reading...]