June 23 (UPI) -- Brazil's Federal Police launched an operation Tuesday targeting an alleged financial fraud scheme at Banco Digimais and ordered freezing assets equivalent to some $125 million. Banco Digimais is an institution controlled by evangelical bishop Edir Macedo,…[Continue Reading...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmainstream religious sect, over allegations he forced followers to join the main opposition People Power Party…[Continue Reading...]
The founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmainstream religious sect, attended a court hearing Wednesday on his potential arrest over allegations he forced followers to join the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) ahead of elections in 2021…[Continue Reading...]
Police this morning detained several residents of Yavne’el in northern Israel on suspicion of secretly marrying dozens of minors to one another, a practice law enforcement believes has been ongoing for years in the northern town. Yavne’el’s Breslov sect has…[Continue Reading...]
In a deeply emotional and chilling courtroom testimony that laid bare the generational devastation of the Shakahola massacre, Dan Mackenzie, the son of notorious cult leader Paul Mackenzie, publicly pleaded with the judiciary to intervene and rescue his siblings from…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court on Tuesday conducted a rare on-site inspection of locations linked to the Shakahola massacre, with suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie and seven co-accused persons taken to Malindi to help the court understand how followers were allegedly recruited,…[Continue Reading...]
Across Africa, pastors and lay Christians who would love to attend Bible school but can’t afford to do so are being approached, and seemingly befriended, by strangers offering them the chance to do so for free. An aggressive missionary cult…[Continue Reading...]
It appears Tulsi Gabbard, the former progressive congresswoman, surfer, and ex-member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, might have more skeletons in her closet than any of her constituents realized. Few politicians have undergone the ideological transformation Gabbard has, and a…[Continue Reading...]
The Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings ordering the dissolution of the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, rejecting a special appeal filed by the organization. In the ruling dated Monday, the court’s Third Petty Bench, presided…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court will this week shift proceedings from the courtroom to the forests at the centre of the Shakahola and Kwa Bi Nzaro investigations, as judges seek to better understand the physical environment where prosecutors allege followers of controversial…[Continue Reading...]
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