The mysterious group found its way to Austin D. while he was working a dead-end job at a Pittsburgh Starbucks. “I was feeling a little depressed and hopeless,” Austin told The Daily Beast. “I’d got out of undergrad with a…[Continue Reading...]
I have long been fascinated by the psychology behind religious cults. I’m intrigued by what makes a person susceptible to joining a cult and equally so by what leads a person to become a cult leader. Today’s documentary recommendation Holy Hell gives…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, Oct. 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling parties have agreed to study the need for a law to preserve the assets of the controversial religious group Unification Church, after the government asked a court last week to order the group's dissolution.…[Continue Reading...]
According to the journalist Suzuki Eito, while it may seem that efforts toward forcing the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly known as the “Unification Church”) are currently in a lull, they remain as strong…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- Despite widespread approval of the Kishida government's move to request the breakup of the controversial Unification Church, Cabinet support remains at a record low. Approval for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet stayed stalled at 25% in an Oct.…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, Oct 16 (EFE).- The Unification Church said Monday that the Japanese government’s initiative to strip it of the status of a religious organization represents “a threat to human rights,” and warned of a “long legal battle” against this executive…[Continue Reading...]
Japan’s government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022. The government’s move comes after a months-long probe into…[Continue Reading...]
A seventh person was arrested Wednesday in connection to the death of a South Korean woman whose body was found decaying in the trunk of a car parked outside a popular spa in suburban Atlanta, authorities said. Gwinnett County Police Department…[Continue Reading...]
In the runup to the 2020 election, a small news organization saw an opportunity. The Epoch Times directed millions of dollars in advertising toward supporting President Donald Trump’s campaign and published dozens of articles parroting his lies about the election…[Continue Reading...]
The village of Richmound, Sask., is holding a protest this weekend, in hopes that a cult will leave. Richmound is located 83 kilometres northwest of Maple Creek, near the Alberta border. A group calling itself the "Kingdom of Canada" has called…[Continue Reading...]
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