A CULT victim has described how brain-washed members donated all their money and were subjected to bizarre ‘teaching’ videos of the sect's leaders in hot tubs. Richard Turner was ironically working for a modern slavery support charity tied to the…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- The ruling and opposition parties in Japan have entered a de facto election campaign after the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Oct. 9. With the issue of "money in politics" among other points of contention, voters…[Continue Reading...]
The man who grew up in al-Arqam recalled how happy he felt to be indoctrinated in the sect’s teachings before Malaysia banned it and offshoots for practicing what was deemed a deviant interpretation of Islam. Al-Arqam and a company started…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA – A detained Philippine pastor who is also wanted in the US for sex trafficking children registered on Oct 8 to run in next year’s senate elections. Apollo Quiboloy, an ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte, is a self-proclaimed…[Continue Reading...]
Twenty-four of the 54 state ministers and parliamentary vice ministers in Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet had ties to the religious group Unification Church, according to an analysis by The Asahi Shimbun. However, none were found to have been implicated…[Continue Reading...]
PUTRAJAYA – All of the 622 children rescued from charity homes linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISB) have been given protection, says Minister for Communications Fahmi Fadzil. The government spokesman said the Cabinet was informed of the…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Intelligence Agency has extended activity restrictions against Aleph, the successor group of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, over suspicions it is concealing assets to avoid paying compensation to crime victims. The agency believes Aleph started hiding hundreds of…[Continue Reading...]
A former staff member at a ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidate’s office detailed how the former Unification Church, now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, gave its organized support to the candidate. The former staffer of…[Continue Reading...]
But all were seemingly dead in a ritualistic collective suicide inside buildings engulfed in flames. In 1994, 53 members of the secretive religious sect known as the Order of the Solar Temple died – a few by suicide, most murdered…[Continue Reading...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 — Court action has been taken against multiple people across three states for various offences related to Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH), the local conglomerate that has been linked to the banned Al Arqam…[Continue Reading...]
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