Harrison Hill’s new book The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of An American Cult goes inside the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps and Sarah's dramatic exit from the group started by Deborah and Jim Green. Deborah remains at large…[Continue Reading...]
"Baba ji asked the woman to pull up her kurta up grabbed her breasts. He then started chanting some mantras." There is a thin line between faith and foolishness, often blurred by 'godmen' who exploit people and sexually abuse women…[Continue Reading...]
BERLIN/SANTIAGO, March 30 (Reuters) - Germany will talk to Chile's new right-wing government about reports that it is dropping plans to turn a settlement founded by a German cult leader and sex abuser into a memorial to victims of torture.…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Juja Subcounty, Kiambu county, arrested 24 people following an operation targeting a suspected religious sect operating within the area. The group was advocating, among others, the Female Genital Mutilation, police said. According to a police report from Abba-Salama…[Continue Reading...]
Ten years before his election to Parliament, Sam Carling was starting to question almost everything he knew. Britain's youngest MP was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and as a child was a "regular participant" in what he now describes as a…[Continue Reading...]
On the eve of its $1,500-per-person Los Angeles pop-up, which starts Mar. 11, Noma — often ranked the world’s top restaurant — has been exposed as a creative institution that built and sustained its reputation on physical and psychological workplace…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
The America-based Shen Yun Performing Arts troupe, long known for its lavish shows advertised as celebrating traditional Chinese culture， is facing mounting backlash and cancellations across Europe and North America after a former dancer’s lawsuit exposed alleged systematic abuse, forced…[Continue Reading...]
Hena Doba speaks with Abbi and Mike Prussack, a married couple who met in the “Two by Twos” sect before deciding to leave together. Once out of the religious group, they decided to create resources for former members to transition…[Continue Reading...]
I can be whoever I want, I thought, breathing a sigh of relief. Aged 26, it was the first time that I could dress however I wanted, instead of the long-sleeve prairie dresses I’d been made to wear my whole…[Continue Reading...]
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