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Kenya doomsday cult pastor, followers face charges including murder and child torture

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, murder charges, Paul Mackenzie, torture charges

Kenya's director of public prosecutions on Tuesday ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty and child torture, among other crimes, over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the…[Continue Reading...]

The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights tunnels

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brooklyn, Chabad Lubavitch, messianic faction, New York, Rebbe Schneerson

Last week, after underground tunnels were discovered near the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Crown Heights and attempts by synagogue officials to perform repairs were prevented by a group of yeshiva students, a mini-riot broke out after police showed up to restore…[Continue Reading...]

Breaking bonds: How conspiracy theories strain family ties

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged broken families, conspiracy theories, family estrangement

Akimi, a pseudonym for a woman in her 40s, says she noticed her mother's personality changing as the coronavirus pandemic went on. Her mother lives in a different city and, initially, would send advice about disinfecting and offering to send…[Continue Reading...]

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, psychological research, true believers

Conspiracy theories have occurred in society for centuries, but they have gained increased prominence in our contemporary culture, fueled by the unease of an anxious world. In the high-speed information exchange and social media bubble, these theories find fertile ground…[Continue Reading...]

‘I was the white girl who’d been taken in hook, line and sinker’: the Britons who survived a Nigerian cult

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged abuse, cult leader, Nigeria, survivor story, TB Joshua, televangelist

TB Joshua, the Oprah of evangelism, was a mega prophet who inspired thousands of followers from across the world to visit his church in Lagos, Nigeria, in the hope of salvation. Before his death in 2021, the celebrated pastor was…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces terror charges over mass deaths

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

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

A Kenyan cult leader is to be charged with murder and terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 people found in mass graves, prosecutors say. Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April after the discovery of hundreds of bodies, some…[Continue Reading...]

Rashad Jamal: Mothers appeal to daughters who ‘took three-year-old children to cult run by convicted child abuser’

Published January 16, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult, cult leader, missing people, Rashad Jamal White, University of Cosmic Intelligence

The mothers of two missing US women who are believed to have taken their young children and joined a cult run by a convicted child molester, have appealed to them, five months after they disappeared. Police in St Louis, Missouri,…[Continue Reading...]

Has Mormon church LOST Utah? ‘McDonaldization’ of religion has weakened its hold over Beehive State, where just 42% of residents consider themselves members – far lower than the 61% figure touted by elders

Published January 15, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged decline in membership, LDS, Mormon Church, Mormons, Utah

Almost a century stands between the settlement of Mormon pioneers in Utah in 1847 and the opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in California in 1940. The two events seem world's apart, yet have somehow interwoven to bring you a…[Continue Reading...]

How the Bizarre Cult of Mother God Ended With Amy Carlson’s Mummified Corpse

Published January 15, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged Amy Carlson, cult leader, cults, Love Has Won, online cults

Amy Carlson's followers would say she ascended. But in no uncertain terms, the 45-year-old mother of three was dead. And she had been dead for 13 days when sheriff's deputies found her body on April 29, 2021, at the residence that served…[Continue Reading...]

The power of North Korean brainwashing

Published January 15, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brainwashing, cult control, Kim Jong Um, North Korea

Madeleine Gavin and Sue Mi Terry talk to Fareed about their film "Beyond Utopia" and what it reveals about the level of control Kim Jong Un exerts over his people.[Continue Reading...]