From cult success to mega stardom, life gets a whole lot weirder for most people when they get famous. Suddenly, their lives are under constant scrutiny from “their audience”, an entity that is simultaneously all-powerful yet completely unknowable. Whose every…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, April 2 (Jiji Press)--Unification Church believers are preparing to set up a new organization following a Tokyo High Court order to dissolve the religious group, it was learned Thursday. When the new organization will be established has not yet…[Continue Reading...]
Just like a handful of certain gangs, you can find a handful of cults scattered across Washington State--including some that you probably walk past without noticing. Beware: Cults do things like shun if you dare to leave, control who you…[Continue Reading...]
Global threats are not limited to wars, cyberattacks, or disinformation campaigns. The digital space has also been occupied by less visible—yet no less aggressive—actors whose target is human trust and whose method is manipulation. This is precisely the story of…[Continue Reading...]
The formation of a religious group in KwaMaphumulo, north of Durban, has raised eyebrows online. The Ekhaya Labafundi bakaJehova (House of the students of Jehova) made headlines after more than 50 people gave up their families, jobs and even medical…[Continue Reading...]
In mid-2009, British citizen Simon Kadwill-Kelly was waiting patiently in a long queue of cars on a ferry returning from France. He was excited at the thought of returning to his home in the United Kingdom. But when he reached…[Continue Reading...]
BERLIN/SANTIAGO, March 30 (Reuters) - Germany will talk to Chile's new right-wing government about reports that it is dropping plans to turn a settlement founded by a German cult leader and sex abuser into a memorial to victims of torture.…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of an Amish retreat in Boonville for those in the Amish and Mennonite community has pleaded not guilty to sodomy/attempted sodomy and two counts of trafficking for the purpose of slavery. The Cooper County Sheriff’s office confirms this…[Continue Reading...]
Jeong Myeong-seok, leader of the controversial religious cult Christian Gospel Mission, has been found to have enjoyed preferential treatment by spending a substantial portion of his lengthy prison terms in single-occupancy cells. It was also confirmed that during his first…[Continue Reading...]
In this July 1982 photograph, cult leader Emory Lamb Sr. posed for a portrait to accompany an article on a deadly bus hijacking by a couple of his followers. Keith and Kate Haigler of Jasper, Arkansas, held 17 passengers hostage…[Continue Reading...]
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