Only 8 percent of "second-generation" members of religious groups such as the Unification Church in Japan feel the government's measures to protect them, which include banning maliciously solicited donations, are sufficient, a Kyodo News survey showed Saturday. Their plight has…[Continue Reading...]
Rabbi Menachem Yaveh, 51, was arrested this week on suspicion of leading a cult in Jerusalem and sexually abusing boys who were part of the cult. Yaveh is a student of Rabbi Eliezer Berland and father of 17 children. At…[Continue Reading...]
Police in the Midlands has arrested a self-proclaimed Zhombe prophet for allegedly raping a minor girl (16) after she failed to pay for a prayer session.Simon Madwala (30) who leads an apostolic sect allegedly raped the girl on May 8,…[Continue Reading...]
Deep on Reddit, Georgia Barron found stories of personal encounters with a high control group. It hit her: “I think I’m in a cult.” She was feeling the same depression, isolation, and exhaustion ex-cult members described. But she had been…[Continue Reading...]
An Indian-origin cult leader, who refers to himself as "god on Earth", has been fined eight million pounds for sexual abuse and financial exploitation. Baba Rajinder Kalia, who claims himself as a "living god" has been accused of sexually abusing…[Continue Reading...]
A man who grew up in polygamist family with 35 siblings and four moms as part of Warren Jeffs' abusive religious cult has spoken out about what his unusual upbringing was like. In a YouTube documentary made by filmmaker Drew…[Continue Reading...]
Fiji prison chiefs said Monday they had punished 11 officers for receiving free meals and other favors from businesses linked to South Korea’s “Grace Road” cult. Grace Road Church founder Shin Ok-ju prophesied that South Korea would be doomed by…[Continue Reading...]
Julian Assange and his family had a weird brush with the sinister Australian doomsday cult "The Family" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group's leader took members' children (above) as her own. The Cult of the Family When…[Continue Reading...]
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — Chad Daybell's Fremont County property is for sale and his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, wants her Arizona trial to begin in August despite her attorneys request to have it next year. Lori is charged with two…[Continue Reading...]
Near the end of his life, Joseph Kibwetere one of the ring leaders of the Church of the Movement of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, a doomsday cult that would later cause the death of more than 1,000 cult…[Continue Reading...]
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