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The “Children of God” started as a California Jesus People community and became an authoritarian cult. And it’s all captured in photos.

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Some of you may remember our interview with historian Larry Eskridge in Episode 113 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Larry is our foremost authority on the Jesus People and he is the author of God’s Forever Family:…[Continue Reading...]

Breaking Taboos; brave women from some of Zimbabwe’s apostolic sects seek medical services in secret

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“I cannot let my children die because of a religion.” Mavis Gunyana (not real name) from a village in Gutu, narrated how hard it is for women of the apostolic sect to get medical services for their children. For years,…[Continue Reading...]

Female ‘sect leader’, 76, is jailed for life for murdering four-year-old boy she said was ‘the reincarnation of Hitler’: Victim choked to death on his vomit while tied up in a sack

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A female sect leader has been jailed for life for the murder of a four-year-old boy who she believed was the reincarnation of Hitler. The woman, who is now aged 76, was handed the sentence after the Frankfurt district court…[Continue Reading...]

The Socorro cult: A conspiracy of notorious negligence?

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How could the Socorro cult controversy have been allowed to happen before the very eyes of the government --both the LGUs and the national government agencies? Should the municipal mayor and provincial governor, including the DILG municipal, provincial and regional…[Continue Reading...]

Man who was raised in Warren Jeffs’ polygamous Mormon CULT with 28 SIBLINGS details his desperate escape from the sect – where women were treated like ‘slaves’ and members were forced into sex as minors

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A man has revealed how he escaped a polygamous Mormon cult before its former leader was sentenced to life behind bars for child sex offences. Ben, based in Utah, appeared on a recent episode of the Cults to Consciousness podcast to share what…[Continue Reading...]

Court cites clergy-penitent privilege in dismissing child sex abuse lawsuit against Mormon church

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In a ruling on Friday, Cochise County Superior Court Judge Timothy Dickerson said the state’s clergy-penitent privilege excused two bishops and several other officials with the church, widely known as the Mormon church, from the state’s child sex abuse mandatory…[Continue Reading...]

Inside Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc, the alleged doomsday cult under investigation in the Philippines

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When Jey Rence Quilario was just 17 years old, he managed to convince the members of his small Filipino village that he was their only saviour. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in 2019, villagers say the charismatic young…[Continue Reading...]

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