India is a land of godmen. Their framed photos hang in living rooms. Their sermons stream on TV. Stickers with their names adorn the windscreens of cars. Yet the term ‘cult’ never comes up. Why not? When does a congregation…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Kisoga, Mukono District, have arrested four members of a little-known religious sect following the shocking death of Ashe Segawa, 26, whose body was kept at a roadside house for six days as followers prayed for his resurrection. The…[Continue Reading...]
The Justice Department has indicted a former Navy sailor and four others for allegedly leading an online extortion group that authorities say later helped spawn the global extremist network known as "764," which the FBI now describes as "modern day…[Continue Reading...]
Colombia said Monday it had sent 26 members of a fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult to the United States, where they are under investigation for alleged child sex abuse. Authorities in the South American nation said the group included 17 children…[Continue Reading...]
Seoul, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)--South Korean President Lee Jae-myung issued instructions at a cabinet meeting Tuesday to consider dissolution orders for religious organizations, referring to such an order by Japan against the Unification Church. While avoiding mentioning the Unification Church…[Continue Reading...]
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia said Monday it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some of the children in the group were at risk. Authorities detained the…[Continue Reading...]
Colombian immigration authorities announced late Monday that 26 members of the Jewish sect Lev Tahor were transferred to the United States after officials determined that some of the group’s children were at risk. The group, comprising 17 minors and nine…[Continue Reading...]
The bribery trial of Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja began on Monday in South Korea. Han, 82, is accused of offering luxury gifts, including Chanel handbags, a diamond necklace, and wild ginseng, to former First Lady Kim Keon Hee in…[Continue Reading...]
There’s palpable tension in Aladja community, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, as one person was killed in a rival cult clash in the early hours of Monday in Iyeghe/Ighwre Quarters. The clash, involving the Aiye and Vikings confraternities,…[Continue Reading...]
It teaches you how people can buy into a total con hook, line and sinker, not only despite its transparent fraudulence but seemingly because of it. It teaches you how otherwise sensible people can go off the deep end to…[Continue Reading...]
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