PHOENIX, Ariz. – Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 47, of Colorado City, Arizona, along with 10 of his followers, were indicted on May 18, 2023, by a federal grand jury on charges relating to a years-long conspiracy to travel across state lines…[Continue Reading...]
Once a teenager without a home wandering the streets of rural China, the self-help guru Yang Taoming’s fortune changed after what he called a fateful encounter with a life coach. By the age of 28, he became the youngest person…[Continue Reading...]
The white supremacist host of a podcast that made “vile” racist attacks in an attempt to stir up hatred, divide communities and spread fear has been jailed for two and a half years. James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales,…[Continue Reading...]
A self-proclaimed psychic accused of conning a woman out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, the Office of Statewide Prosecution reported. A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation revealed that Jaycee Wasso,…[Continue Reading...]
A jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a “psychic medium” accused of deceiving two siblings of €10,200 by telling them their deceased father told them to give her the money. Debbie Paget, of Knowth Court, Ballymun, Dublin has…[Continue Reading...]
A judge has urged for a case against a religious cult charged over the death of a schoolgirl to move quickly, as the group again refused legal representation. Fourteen members of the Toowoomba group, made up of three families known…[Continue Reading...]
Washington: A 33-year-old Indian-American man has been charged in the US state of Virginia for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp, a media report said. Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Kenya gave police a five-day extension to hold pastor Paul Mackenzie, who faces possible terrorism charges in the deaths of at least 110 of his congregants, without bond. Mackenzie allegedly started a cult, where he convinced followers…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan cult leader accused of inciting and possibly forcing his followers to starve themselves to death appeared in court Friday in connection with the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in mass graves. The deeply religious Christian-majority…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court has set a 3 million shilling bond for pastor Ezekiel Odero, an affiliate of starvation cult leader and mass murder suspect Paul Mackenzie. Odero's lawyers acknowledge that 15 of his followers died at his church, but all…[Continue Reading...]
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