Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a 19-year-old California man linked to the extremist “764” cult with a string of crimes, including child sexual exploitation, animal abuse, and online threats. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of California indicted…[Continue Reading...]
A senior religious leader has told a Mombasa court that controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie manipulated Bible teachings to deceive his followers, leading them into extreme and harmful beliefs. The Chief Executive Officer of the Coast Interfaith Council of Clerics, Dr…[Continue Reading...]
The tragedy of a former prime minister being shot with a homemade gun while giving a campaign speech was the catalyst to focus on issues that led up to the slaying. These include the relationship between politicians and a religious…[Continue Reading...]
The trial for Yoon Youngho, the former head of the Unification Church's global headquarters, who was indicted and detained on charges of delivering money and valuables to First Lady Kim Keonhee along with lobbying related to issues within the Unification…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit roundly rejected former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s request to have three lower court rulings overturned. The ruling was released Monday morning, less than a…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial, finding that a “mountain of evidence” substantiated the government’s charges of child sexual exploitation and pornography predicate acts and his…[Continue Reading...]
SWANTON — Tamara Mathieu starts all of her TikTok videos with a version of this introduction: “I’m a cult survivor. I lived for 14 years in the religious group called the Twelve Tribes, and I share videos about things that…[Continue Reading...]
The Anambra State Police Command has commenced a full-scale investigation into a viral video showing young boys reportedly initiating a minor into what appears to be a cult group. Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed that an initial…[Continue Reading...]
during a psychology placement with a crisis hotline. It was the “old days” of cults, he says, when headlines were dominated by Charles Manson, Jonestown and the abduction of Patty Hearst. Closer to home, the Children of God and the…[Continue Reading...]
NARA – The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man indicted over the 2022 killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun in Nara, will testify in court as a defense witness, it was learned Wednesday. In the…[Continue Reading...]
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