Tag: Exclusive Brethren

Wealthy Exclusive Brethren schools net almost $30m in disadvantage payments

Published July 10, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, Exclusive Brethren, government funding

The Exclusive Brethren’s OneSchool Global network of private schools has received almost $30m in commonwealth payments for educational “disadvantage” over five years despite many being among the country’s wealthiest schools, a Guardian Australia investigation has found. The Brethren has a…[Continue Reading...]

Exclusive Brethren’s leading family expected to cop a loss on $9.5m Dural estate

Published June 9, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, Exclusive Brethren, Gareth Hales, Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, real estate

The leading family behind the fundamentalist Exclusive Brethren sect were always going to struggle to make a profit on the sale of their luxury Dural weekender given they purchased it for what local agents say was a top price of…[Continue Reading...]

EXCLUSIVE: My life in a secretive religious sect and how I escaped from the whisky drinking multi-millionaire leader who claims he’s the Holy Spirit, banned me from my family and said I was possessed by Satan

Published October 2, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, Bruce Hale, cult claims, Exclusive Brethren, leader, survivor story

Lindy Jacomb lived in one of the world's most secretive and controlling sects run by a multi-millionaire leader in Sydney, until she was accused of being possessed by demons and banished. For 20 years she belonged to a group who…[Continue Reading...]

Exclusive Brethren COVID test supplier sets $14m Hills District record

Published August 6, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, Exclusive Brethren, leaders, mansions

Less than a year after the son of Exclusive Brethren’s global leader Bruce D. Hales purchased a $9.5 million mansion in Dural, a member of his flock has gone one better and smashed all house price records for the Hills…[Continue Reading...]

Religious Sect That Tried to Censor LGBTQ Content from Human Rights Museum Also Asked George W. Bush to Stop Gay Marriage in Canada, Documents Show

Published July 26, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Exclusive Brethren, LGBT, Plymouth Brethren, political influence

A secretive religious sect that tried to censor LGBTQ content from the Canadian Human Rights Museum also sent letters to former US President George W. Bush in 2005 asking him to stop gay marriage in Canada, leaked documents show. Two…[Continue Reading...]

Searching for Elsewhere: Born into a cult. How to survive?

Published July 23, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged escaping sects, Exclusive Brethren, former member, sect, survivor story

Graeme Johanson’s Searching for Elsewhere (Ginninderra Press, 2023) provides a compelling answer. His memoire, a gripping story from beginning to end, deals with the dangerous manipulation of young lives brought up in an extremely controlling sect with bizarre rules, destroyed…[Continue Reading...]

Religious Sect Members Who Obtained $12 Million Through Manitoba Government Contracts Run Companies Out of Co-owned Building, Records Show

Published July 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Canada, emergency COVID-19 government contracts, Exclusive Brethren, government funding, Plymouth Brethren

Members of a controversial religious sect who obtained over $12 million through emergency COVID-19 government contracts in Manitoba operate multiple businesses out of a building they own together, corporate documents reveal. Acure Safety, Central Dental and Meditek are all Manitoba…[Continue Reading...]