The October 2024 general election dealt a serious blow to the LDP-Kōmeitō ruling coalition. Suzuki Eito, a specialist in the dealings of the Korean Unification Church, examines the connections between the religious organization and Japan’s political parties that may have…[Continue Reading...]
JASIN: Three married couples and two men were detained during a midnight raid on a house here on suspicion of being followers of the deviant Millah Abraham sect. Melaka education, higher education and religious affairs committee chairman Rahmad Mariman said…[Continue Reading...]
Inka Winter has no memories of the day she arrived at the commune as a tiny child. After her father abandoned the family, her mother had to seek work in Berlin, so four-year-old Inka was left at the headquarters of…[Continue Reading...]
Jim Heller is a former Canadian ashram premie. Currently, he is a criminal lawyer in Victoria, B.C., Canada, and a guitarist in a band called Gravel. He has critiqued Maharaji’s past claims and his followers’ evasion of accountability. Heller looks…[Continue Reading...]
Clos yr Onnen, with its well-kept homes and neatly manicured gardens, is like thousands of unassuming suburban streets throughout Wales. Just a stone’s throw from the medieval castle in the charming seaside town of Kidwelly, the quiet and overlooked cul-de-sac…[Continue Reading...]
Charles Manson had a well-known "Manson Family" cult of followers, but his biological family has long flown under the radar. Before orchestrating the brutal murders of then-pregnant Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Parent and Leno and…[Continue Reading...]
Robin Marshall joined the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) when she was 19, calling herself the "typical person that gets pulled into a cult." She had seen a poster for a meditation class while living in California and the group…[Continue Reading...]
Nakuru—A court in Nakuru has dismissed cases against former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga and his co-accused. On Monday, November 11, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) filed an application seeking to withdraw all charges against Njenga and…[Continue Reading...]
At the 1970 trial of Charles Manson and his followers, Linda Kasabian’s testimony helped put the cult leader and four members of his "Family" away after the Tate-LaBianca murders. Peacock’s three-part docuseries Making Manson, streaming now, shines a spotlight on…[Continue Reading...]
Sure, any religion is kind of weird, if you look at it too closely. It is faith, after all, not science. But the group Tulsi Gabbard grew up in (and possibly is still in) sure sounds like a cult. Or…[Continue Reading...]
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