Education minister Masahito Moriyama, who also has religious affairs within his ministerial portfolio, admitted Wednesday to signing a document pledging support for issues championed by the Unification Church ahead of the October 2021 general election. At a parliamentary session, Moriyama…[Continue Reading...]
To call Netflix’s latest documentary wild is a huge understatement. It features baby cloning and UFOs… and that’s not even the half of it. If you were left gasping at Tiger King, baffled by true crime series Last Stop Larrimah…[Continue Reading...]
At the end of the 1960s, the counterculture started to become more dangerous by the day. As much as artists wanted to believe in freedom of expression, the heinous acts of people like Charles Manson cast a dark shroud over…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest. The defendants all denied the charges brought before…[Continue Reading...]
Japan's education minister Moriyama Masahito has denied seeking election campaign support from an organization related to the religious group formerly called the Unification Church. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper has reported that Moriyama received a letter of recommendation from the organization…[Continue Reading...]
The third episode of the Netflix documentary series How to Become a Cult Leader focuses on Buddhafield founder Jaime Gomez. Born in Venezuela, Gomez moved to Hollywood to break out as an actor. But with his acting dreams going nowhere,…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who has…[Continue Reading...]
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party began questioning member lawmakers about a high-profile money scandal involving LDP factions, but there was little sense it is serious about muckraking in its own backyard. Lawmakers from the influential but now-disbanded Abe, Kishida and…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan authorities on Wednesday proscribed the church of a religious leader who ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven, as an organised criminal group. Paul Mackenzie, head of the Good…[Continue Reading...]
Sandra Rogers-Hare and Cassidy Arkin are the mother-daughter duo behind Paramount+’s new docuseries, Born in Synanon. Rather than sensationalize the story of the cult known as Synanon, the series challenges viewers to reflect on what really went wrong in hopes…[Continue Reading...]
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