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Neo-Nazi hate group faces federal lawsuit over efforts to intimidate Nashville communities

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Goyim Defense League, hate group, lawsuit, Nashville, neo nazis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A neo-Nazi group that targeted Nashville communities during summer of 2024 faces a new lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The federal lawsuit, using an 1871 law created to target the Ku Klux Klan,…[Continue Reading...]

Amber Alert issued for brother and sister authorities say are heading to FLDS group in Utah

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Allen Fischer, FLDS, missing children, Polygamist cult, Polygamists, Rachelle Fischer

MONTEVIEW — Police are advising the public that a brother and sister last seen in this East Idaho town may be headed to a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints group in Utah. Idaho State Police issued an…[Continue Reading...]

Course Catalog: Decoding — and Fighting — Conspiracy Theories

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged college course, conspirac theories, education, respnding to conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories have played a role in American culture and politics for decades. In the course “Conspiracy Rhetoric: Power, Politics, and Pop Culture” at Bates College, students closely examine what propels those theories. Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a professor of rhetoric, film,…[Continue Reading...]

Self-proclaimed prophet and eight sect members arrested over exorcism death

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Charity Mafirowanda, cult leader, death, exorcism, Zimbabwe

A self-proclaimed prophetess and eight of her followers from an apostolic sect in Kwekwe have been arrested in connection with the death of a 54-year-old woman during an alleged exorcism ritual at a shrine. Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel…[Continue Reading...]

Leader of cult-like Zizian group indicted on new weapons charge

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged ciminal indictment, cult, cult leader, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, weapons charges, Zizians

Federal court documents allege that LaSota was in possession of a .50 caliber rifle and a handgun as well as more than 450 rounds of ammunition. Watch video https://www.yahoo.com/news/leader-cult-zizian-group-indicted-210306558.html[Continue Reading...]

I grew up in a cult where children were locked in cupboards, publicly beaten and forced to go without food – so that we could all ‘go to Venus when the world ended’

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Boston, child abuse, cult leader, cults, Fort Hill Community, Massachusetts, Mel Lyman

A woman who grew up in a cult where she was subjected to public beatings, days of food deprivation and being locked in a closet has laid bare the nightmare of growing up in fear. Actress and screenwriter Guinevere Turner,…[Continue Reading...]

Former ‘cult member’ files lawsuit over land proceeds in sale

Published June 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged FLDS, Minnesota, Polygamist cult, real estate

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (Northern News Now) - A jury trial begins in Cook County Tuesday over proceeds from a plot of land formerly owned by a polygamous sect leader and his family. The land in question is near Grand Marais…[Continue Reading...]

Utah plant linked to Kingston polygamist group cited for dumping chemicals into Bear River tributary

Published June 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged chemical dumping, Kingston polygamist group, Polygamists, Utah

In August 2019, an anonymous tipster reported that a company located in Portage, Utah, was illegally dumping chemical waste in ponds, sewers, storm drains and on the ground and had been doing so intentionally for months. Later that month, a…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan preacher who claimed responsibility for ‘miracle babies’ killed in car crash

Published June 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged dead, Gilber Deya, Gilbert Deya Ministries, Kenya, miracle bablies

A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday, local authorities said. Gilbert Deya was killed in “a horrific road accident which involved several vehicles,” James Orengo, the…[Continue Reading...]

My personal journey into cult related activism and advocacy involving the MISA sect

Published June 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brainwashing, coercive control, cult abuse, cults, survivor story

My first ever blog post here will be an attempt to share and explain my personal journey into the field of cultic studies and cult related activism/work that I have recently become more publicly involved with, especially in regards to…[Continue Reading...]