South Korea’s Unification Church has forcefully rejected allegations that its leader, Han Hak-ja, bribed the wife of former president Yoon Suk-yeol, even as prosecutors expand a corruption investigation that threatens to expose decades of the church’s political entanglements. In a…[Continue Reading...]
Two weeks after the leaders of a cult-like group in the Inland Empire were arrested, police have reopened an investigation into the death of a 4-year-old boy who had been placed in their custody. On Thursday, the Colton Police Department…[Continue Reading...]
On November 18, 1978, the world witnessed one of the darkest chapters in modern history. A total of 912 people, including 276 children, lost their lives in a mass suicide at Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana (a country on…[Continue Reading...]
The Children of God, later known as The Family International, began in the late 1960s and spread through communal homes around the world. It mixed apocalyptic teachings with aggressive proselytizing and drew in thousands of followers, including families who worked…[Continue Reading...]
A man in his 30s hanged himself inside his home in central Nasiriyah, on Friday, according to a security source. Preliminary investigations link the suicide to the outlawed “Qurban” cult, whose members promote extremist beliefs and rituals, including self-sacrifice. Authorities…[Continue Reading...]
A family of 12, including two parents and 10 children, has left the extremist Haredi sect Lev Tahor in Guatemala and arrived safely in Israel, authorities said Thursday. The family is receiving support from social services and other relevant government…[Continue Reading...]
Here’s everything you need to know about Compass: Cult of the Saints, the ABC documentary investigating the tragic death of Elizabeth Struhs and the dangerous cult-like practices of The Saints. To watch Compass: Cult of the Saints in the US,…[Continue Reading...]
How did one man convince 13 other people to let an eight-year-old girl die? This is the question haunting many people of faith in the southern Queensland town of Toowoomba. Elizabeth Struhs died after members of a cult called The…[Continue Reading...]
Half a dozen leaders of a former cult have been sentenced after children were rescued from labor camps, one of which was located in Kansas City. Watch video report https://www.kctv5.com/video/2025/08/08/cult-leaders-sentenced-prison-after-children-rescued-labor-camps/[Continue Reading...]
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) conducted a fact-finding visit to the site of an alleged fasting-to-death cult, where one body and two human remains were recently recovered. The team that was led by the Director in charge…[Continue Reading...]
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