The Unification Church plans to propose a system in which it entrusts up to ¥10 billion to the government to compensate former followers for the damage they claim to have suffered, sources close to the controversial religious group said Monday.…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO: Japan's controversial religious sect Unification Church is approaching the government for an arrangement to entrust up to 10 billion yen ($67 million) to aid victims affected by the group's practices, local media reported on Monday. Citing sources within the…[Continue Reading...]
The woman known as 'baby Holly', whose parents were murdered in 1981 but went unidentified for forty years, has broken her silence, revealing she believed they were murdered trying to leave a religious cult. Holly Miller, 42, only discovered in…[Continue Reading...]
When Jey Rence Quilario was just 17 years old, he managed to convince the members of his small Filipino village that he was their only saviour. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in 2019, villagers say the charismatic young…[Continue Reading...]
David Mitchell, a muckraker whose tiny California newspaper challenged the violent drug rehabilitation cult Synanon and, as a result, became one of only a handful of weeklies to win a Pulitzer Prize, died on Oct. 25 at his home in…[Continue Reading...]
In the case related to the "religious marriage" of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded its preliminary investigation on the criminal complaints filed against 13 members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI), an alleged cult in Surigao del Norte. DOJ Undersecretary Mico Clavano said…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines — Members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) have admitted to diverting government aid meant for indigent senior citizens and beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to fund the group. They made the admissions during…[Continue Reading...]
An inquiry into a suspected cult leader accused of inciting at least 428 of his followers to starve themselves to death, has pointed to "failures" in Kenya's security and criminal justice systems, according to a report seen by AFP on…[Continue Reading...]
Best friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas likely never saw it coming. By sun up that day in 2016, the two Long Island teens had been slashed and battered to death with machetes and baseball bats. Last month, one of…[Continue Reading...]
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