A secretive international church group that has been likened to a 'brainwashing' cult is stepping up its recruitment drive among Australian university students. The Shincheonji Church of Jesus (SCJ), which started in South Korea 40 years ago, has been accused…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a cult-like faith-healing group charged with the murder of a diabetic girl claimed to police they had “fabricated” the charge and they were “making out an innocent death” to be murder. In a frosty interview with detectives…[Continue Reading...]
Chilling triple-0 audio in the moments before a man was murdered by his neighbours in a religiously motivated terror attack has been released by a coroner. Alan Dare, 52, was one of the three victims shot dead by crazed gunmen…[Continue Reading...]
A convicted paedophile and self-appointed cult leader is once again back in jail after he breached the strict court-ordered conditions of his release by using private mode and deleting his browser iPad history. William Kamm, the self-proclaimed “last pope” and…[Continue Reading...]
A mum charged over the death of her diabetic daughter planned to leave her then-unbelieving husband in the months before her daughter was allegedly killed by her home-based church group, a court has heard. Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs revealed the marital…[Continue Reading...]
Heroic cop Rachel McCrow's heartbreaking final act as she lay dying in the dirt of a killer family’s doomsday cult compound has been revealed. Constable McCrow was shot and killed with Constable Matt Arnold after they entered the remote property…[Continue Reading...]
The Jehovah's Witnesses fought hard to avoid the scrutiny of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Now the inquiry report has found 'credible evidence' that child sex abuse occurred within the faith - and no evidence that…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of texts between members of a faith-healing group in the week a young girl lay dying from her diabetic condition have been revealed in court. Fourteen members of the religious circle known as The Saints are on trial charged…[Continue Reading...]
Ex-members and parents of devotees of the Shincheonji Church have hailed a council’s decision to ban its building from becoming a legal teaching base as a positive step towards shutting down the religious sect’s activities in Perth for good. Cambridge…[Continue Reading...]
A member of a cult-like church group charged with causing a diabetic girl's death told his father 'peace, healing and comfort are your birthright', urging him to have a 'peaceful sleep' as the child lay dying. Texts sent by members…[Continue Reading...]
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