The Exclusive Brethren’s OneSchool Global network of private schools has received almost $30m in commonwealth payments for educational “disadvantage” over five years despite many being among the country’s wealthiest schools, a Guardian Australia investigation has found. The Brethren has a…[Continue Reading...]
A religious group accused of killing an eight-year-old girl believed "God would heal" her diabetes after they withheld life-saving insulin, a judge has heard. The group of six men and eight women, including the girl's parents, refused to enter pleas…[Continue Reading...]
Deep on Reddit, Georgia Barron found stories of personal encounters with a high control group. It hit her: “I think I’m in a cult.” She was feeling the same depression, isolation, and exhaustion ex-cult members described. But she had been…[Continue Reading...]
Julian Assange and his family had a weird brush with the sinister Australian doomsday cult "The Family" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group's leader took members' children (above) as her own. The Cult of the Family When…[Continue Reading...]
A cult group has been targeting university students across Australia, spreading teachings that diverge from mainstream Christianity. Campus ministry workers report that Shincheonji Church of Jesus has been actively recruiting on university campuses, approaching people to bring them into the…[Continue Reading...]
The leading family behind the fundamentalist Exclusive Brethren sect were always going to struggle to make a profit on the sale of their luxury Dural weekender given they purchased it for what local agents say was a top price of…[Continue Reading...]
An Australian has shared a heartbreaking plea after revealing they were “one of the last Anne Hamilton-Byrne child survivors” — a reference to the notorious doomsday cult that operated outside Melbourne between 1963 and 1989. The survivor posted anonymously in…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was sexually abused as a child by a minister of a secretive sect says the religious group's written apology is welcome, but actions need to follow the words. Amy Williams reports.[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was sexually abused by a minister of a secretive sect as a child says the religious group's written apology is welcome but has been a long time coming. The FBI is working with international law enforcement partners…[Continue Reading...]
The Kidney Cult’s Aussie members live in a nondescript home, but smaller congregations have since emerged in other parts of the world, including Canada, the US, Mexico, and Kenya. Almost two decades ago, David and his followers, who currently include…[Continue Reading...]
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