With its pristine swimming pool, manicured lawns and lush forest backdrop, Villa Baviera, a German-themed settlement of 122 souls in southern Chile, looks like the perfect holiday getaway. But Colonia Dignidad, as it was previously known, is a byword for…[Continue Reading...]
In an emotional Knesset hearing, families and officials urged swift action to rescue children from Guatemala’s Lev Tahor cult: 'They face imprisonment, starvation and rape—time is against them'; A 1.5 million shekel aid package was allocated to support rescue efforts…[Continue Reading...]
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) on Monday disbanded a criminal ring that was disguised as a religious sect to swindle members millions in donations and force them into slavery. Dubbed “Return to Canaan”, the early morning operation…[Continue Reading...]
WHEN Fiji was sold to disciples as the "promised land", they had no idea they were being indoctrinated into a "mind-controlling" cult. One that has allegedly encouraged its members to beat each other, and whose leader has been found guilty…[Continue Reading...]
Two men have been arrested and charged with running an international child exploitation enterprise known as 764 which targets vulnerable minors online and coerces them to self-harm, make child sexual abuse material of themselves and participate in violent acts —…[Continue Reading...]
The alleged ringleaders of a far-Right satanic terror network that encouraged children to carve symbols into their flesh have been arrested by the FBI. Leonidas Varagiannis, a US national living in Greece, and Prasan Nepal, from North Carolina, were named…[Continue Reading...]
On the evening of October 17, 2021, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Taneka Gardner pulled a suitcase through the gates of a church in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She had been introduced to Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries years earlier by her…[Continue Reading...]
The Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) confirms reports of individuals associated with the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (commonly known as the Unification Church) have been entering university buildings that are closed off to the public and proselytizing…[Continue Reading...]
CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Supreme Court reinstated the conviction of a religious sect leader’s role in a child’s death. Deborah Green, the self-proclaimed general of the Aggressive Christian Missionary Training Corps, pled no contest to child…[Continue Reading...]
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