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...]
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...]
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