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Ex-secretary to Unification Church leader quizzed over alleged palm-greasing of politicians

Published December 28, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged bribery investigation, cults, South Korea, Unification Church

Police on Sunday questioned a former chief secretary to Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja as part of a widening investigation into allegations that the church provided illicit money to politicians across party lines. Jeong Won-ju, who formerly oversaw the church's…[Continue Reading...]

A way out, and a way forward: Southern Utah nonprofit helps survivors rebuild life after polygamy

Published December 27, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged polygamist groups, Polygamists, recovery, survivor stories, Utah

Holding Out HELP, a charitable organization whose mission is to offer help and hope for those who have decided to exit a polygamous lifestyle, held back-to-back fundraising dinners in Southern Utah in October. The gala events, held in St. George…[Continue Reading...]

Unification Church Officials Arrested Over Political Lobbying

Published December 27, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cultss, South Korea, Unification Church

Police investigating allegations of political lobbying by the Unification Church arrested and questioned Yun Young-ho, former head of the Unification Church’s global headquarters, who was detained at a detention center on the 26th. The police also re-summoned Song Kwang-seok, former…[Continue Reading...]

Tom Cruise flies into our market town every year but we are sick of it: Residents say Mission: Impossible star’s annual jaunt to Scientology bash causes chaos

Published December 27, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, East Grimstead, protests, Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise. public protests, UK

Having Tom Cruise fly in on a helicopter and land in a quaint British market town would ordinarily send locals into a fevered frenzy. But people living in East Grinstead have had enough. When the Mission: Impossible star, 63, arrived…[Continue Reading...]

Democratic Party Proposes Special Prosecutor Act Targeting Unification Church, Shincheonji in People Power Party

Published December 26, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, government action, Shincheonji, South Korea, Unification Church

The Democratic Party of Korea proposed the *Act on the Appointment of Special Prosecutors, etc.*, related to allegations of the Unification Church’s lobbying of political circles with money and valuables, on the 26th. The investigation targets include not only the…[Continue Reading...]

Woman Who Led White Supremacist Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

Published December 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged 30-year prison sentence, criminal conviction, Dallas Humber, hate group, hate group leader, Terrorgram Collective

One such group is Terrorgram Collective, whose past leader, Dallas Humber, former leader of the white supremacist transnational terrorist group Terrorgram Collective, was sentenced last week to 30 years in Federal Prison for “soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of…[Continue Reading...]

How social media influencers rein men in with cult leader tactics

Published December 24, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Incels, misogyny, online radicalization

First they appeal to you with a message you have been waiting for. “Your problems aren’t your fault, there is someone to blame for all of this.” “I know how to make all your troubles go away.” This hook is…[Continue Reading...]

Fighting radicalisation in young people Program: The World Today

Published December 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, online radicalization, radicalzation

As part of its reforms the federal government wants to introduce a new aggravating offence aimed at adults who seek to radicalise and influence children. The Attorney General Michelle Rowland says since 2001, 120 people have been convicted of terrorism…[Continue Reading...]

Teenage Jehovah’s Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules

Published December 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Jehovah's Witnesses Tagged blood transfusions, court order, minor child, UK

A judge has given doctors permission to give a blood transfusion to a teenage Jehovah's Witness, should she need on following an operation. The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard how the 14-year-old girl had told medics that she did…[Continue Reading...]

Spanish authorities dismantle cult that used drugs and animal sacrifice in its rituals

Published December 23, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged abuse, Canary Islands, cults, rituals, Spain

Spanish police arrested five people running a group that charged hefty sums for rituals involving animal sacrifice and illicit drugs. The cult leader was jailed after followers required psychiatric treatment. Spanish National Police dismantled a group in the Canary Islands…[Continue Reading...]