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These are nine celebrities you wouldn’t believe have ties to cults

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged celebrities, cults, Hollywood

While some celebrities’ followers feel like members of a cult (I’m looking at you dedicated Twitter accounts), these stars have been part of literal ones. Everyone knows the famous Scientologists: Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss, and John Travolta to name a…[Continue Reading...]

Special counsel seeks arrest warrant for former Unification Church deputy minister

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, investigation, polical influence, scandal, South Korea, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

On the 25th, the special counsel investigating Kim Keon-hee requested an arrest warrant for Yoon, a former Deputy Minister of the Unification Church, who is suspected of soliciting complaints related to the Unification Church through Jeon Sung-bae. Yoon was reportedly…[Continue Reading...]

1-on-1 with Lori Vallow Daybell’s surviving victim

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, attempted murders, Brandon Boudreaux, cult mom, Lori Vallow, murders

PHOENIX — On Friday, "Doomsday Mom" and convicted killer Lori Vallow Daybell will be sentenced in Arizona for two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. One of those counts is for the attempted killing of her niece's ex-husband, Brandon…[Continue Reading...]

Scientology preparing to resubmit application for Clearwater road

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clearwater, Florida, real estate, Scientologists, Scientology

CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is preparing to resubmit its application to acquire a contested portion of land downtown, according to a letter sent to city officials this month from an attorney representing the church. The letter draws on…[Continue Reading...]

Where Is Ron Luce Now? All About the Teen Mania Founder’s Life After the Controversial Ministry Shown in Shiny Happy People

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged evangelicals, Ron Luce, Teen Mania

Ron Luce rose to prominence as the founder and president of the evangelical Christian youth organization Teen Mania Ministries. Luce co-founded Teen Mania with his wife, Katie Luce, in 1986, and the organization went on to become one of the…[Continue Reading...]

Abuse reported to cult leader before police: Inquiry hearing

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Australia, child abuse, cults, Geelong Revival Centre

Reporting structures in cults can enable child abuse and undermine child safety systems, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has heard. Ex-members Ryan and Catherine Carey told the inquiry on July 24 that parents at Geelong Revival Centre reported abuse to cult…[Continue Reading...]

In Japan, fears grow of Aum Shinrikyo death cult’s revival

Published July 25, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo, cults, Japan

The widow of a man killed when followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 has warned that a son of the founder of the apocalyptic religious group intends to resurrect its…[Continue Reading...]

‘Second-gen’ of Unification Church members in Japan sue for 320 million yen in damages

Published July 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes

TOKYO -- Eight individuals who are the children of followers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly the Unification Church, filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on July 24 seeking a total of about 320…[Continue Reading...]

Dealing with conspiracy theories: debunking works

Published July 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, research, study

A Chinese biological weapon! Bill Gates! 5G! Asterix and Obelix! Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic saw followers of conspiracy theories going more than a little crazy: they competed to explain who or what was “really” behind it, and who…[Continue Reading...]

Shakahola Two: Fresh fears of cult activities in Binzaro

Published July 24, 2025 By admin

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

Save for a few tourist vans headed to Malindi, the Malindi-Sala Gate road feels like a graveyard. Snaking through sleepy villages—Kakuyuni, Jilore, Kakoneni, Marikano, Pishimwenga, Baolala, Timboni, Chakama and Zowerani—the tarmac lies hauntingly silent, the journey marked by a sense…[Continue Reading...]