A former second-in-command at the Unification Church has testified in court that he gave luxury items to former first lady Kim Keon-hee with the expectation that her husband’s administration would provide favors to the church. At his embezzlement trial on…[Continue Reading...]
Andrés Orrego saved the man’s number in his cell phone under American Friend. Orrego, who runs a small supermarket in the heart of the northern Colombian town of Yarumal, had liked the foreign stranger’s manners. He made an effort to…[Continue Reading...]
The vast, vast majority of the time, things that a cult uses to “promote” their ways are the most ridiculous things imaginable. Just look at the anime that Aum Shinrikyo produced in the early 1990s professing their founder’s divinity. Or…[Continue Reading...]
Actress and former NXIVM member Sarah Edmondson is pulling back the curtain, telling the Julian Dorey Podcast that A-list actors once cycled through the cult’s training programs — while stressing she’s not accusing them of wrongdoing. Sarah Edmondson is still…[Continue Reading...]
The Qilin group posted the L. Ron Hubbard-founded ‘religion to the stars’ on its dark victim blog on Thursday, claiming to have syphoned off an unknown amount of data from the “Non-Profit and Charitable Organization.” With about 780 views and…[Continue Reading...]
If walls could talk, this grand Federation mansion in Fremantle would have a wild tale to tell. Today it’s a genteel five-bedroom home at the heart of the city’s heritage precinct. But 40 years ago, it was a hub for…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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