The Tokyo High Court has upheld a lower court decision to order a religious group widely known as the Unification Church to pay a fine for failing to properly respond to government inquiries. The education and culture ministry had exercised…[Continue Reading...]
For-sale signs have been affixed around what appears to be one of the last public outposts of the Nuwaubian Nation in Brooklyn; an ominous, windowless, sand-colored compound on 717 Bushwick Avenue affixed with equally large Egyptian imagery, cartoon-blue window panels…[Continue Reading...]
Ina surprise announcement, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said a week ago he would step down as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) next month, bringing his premiership to an early end. Since coming to office in October…[Continue Reading...]
A new documentary about a secretive New Zealand "cult" uncovers the openly submissive lifestyle of women in the fundamentalist Christian community. The third documentary in the series reveals how the Gloriavale society, based in Haupiri, in the South Island, imposes…[Continue Reading...]
A local government council has rejected a development application from a “religious cult,” effectively banning it from teaching out of an office building it occupies in an inner city suburb of a major Australian city. The Town of Cambridge received…[Continue Reading...]
A cult member who beat her two-year-old daughter to death over her failure to properly complete chores in Australia has been sentenced to nine years in jail. Tillie Craig disappeared from the Ministry of God farm in 1987, sparking a…[Continue Reading...]
JOURNALIST Stuart Flinders unveils the obscure and provocative story of Victorian Britain’s most eccentric religious sect in his upcoming book, A Very British Cult: Rogue Priests and the Abode of Love. Flinders dives into the mysterious and hard to understand…[Continue Reading...]
A secretive international church group that has been likened to a 'brainwashing' cult is stepping up its recruitment drive among Australian university students. The Shincheonji Church of Jesus (SCJ), which started in South Korea 40 years ago, has been accused…[Continue Reading...]
What would you do if you discovered you were dating someone who was in a church that many people believe is a cult? It's a question one Reddit user is facing, after discovering that the woman he's dating is a…[Continue Reading...]
A Utah woman is accused of kidnapping her then-4-year-old daughter in January 2023 and evading law enforcement for 18 months, with help from her adult sons, before she was finally caught. At the time when Kimberly Dell Davidson-Drolet, 53, allegedly…[Continue Reading...]
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