“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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – In 1975, self-styled prophet William A. Lewis, a charismatic, Chicago-area radio preacher, led a handful of followers to the House of Judah, a communal compound five miles east of South Haven. The congregation grew to maybe…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Forty years ago, a 9-year-old Daniel Yarbough held his dying brother in his arms. The 12-year-old was beaten so badly he couldn’t take a sip of water. The men at the camp put him in the…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
For nearly a decade, they were at the mercy of a father who saw himself as the new Messiah. In a case that shocked the Netherlands, Gerrit-Jan van Dorsten was alleged to have confined nine of his children to the family's…[Continue Reading...]
In the case related to the "religious marriage" of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom…[Continue Reading...]
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