THE STORY – In 1984, Shoko Asahara started a seemingly innocuous yoga school based in Tokyo. By 1995, the group had evolved into a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo, meaning “Supreme Truth,” whose weapon of choice was sarin, an extraordinarily toxic…[Continue Reading...]
The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace. Authorities said in October 2023 they were seeking to dissolve the influential sect, founded…[Continue Reading...]
The Cult Education Institue has been gatheing information about the destructive cult Tvind for more than thirty years. See the historical archive through this link and learn about its, history, fugitive leader and abuse. Tvind is an example of why…[Continue Reading...]
A group of radical teachers founded the group in the late 1960s. It went on to have schools across Denmark. Sky's Alice Porter explains why some former members have described the group as 'like a cult'. Watch the video report.[Continue Reading...]
A former member of the high-profile New Zealand sect Gloriavale has written a book about her life and she’s launching it at an event in rural east Auckland. Theophila Pratt, who was named Honey Faithful at birth, was born and…[Continue Reading...]
Debby Hopkins, a member of the House of Yahweh, made her journey from a devotee to a free woman after twenty years with the group. The House of Yahweh was known to be a sect of people who enforced strict…[Continue Reading...]
Composed of disaffected Silicon Valley separatists, the group of mostly trans women has been linked to murders in California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Listen to the interview with Wired reporter that wrote in-depth story about the group.[Continue Reading...]
Three Americans and one Canadian, members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, were arrested in Guatemala on charges of child abuse and mistreatment, police and prosecutors reported this Wednesday. “They are members of the Lev Tahor Jewish community, the arrest warrants…[Continue Reading...]
In Hulu’s ‘How I Escaped My Cult: NXIVM / The Vow,’ the focus is on Keith Raniere and the NXIVM, which was a sex cult under the guise of a personal development organization. By manipulating women, the cult leader used to…[Continue Reading...]
The sister of a young girl killed at the hands of religious fanatics – who left her to suffer and die for days after her insulin was taken away – says justice has been delivered for her “bright girl with…[Continue Reading...]
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