Located in a remote part of New Zealand, the Gloriavale Christian Community has been compared to Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale. The secretive religious cult was founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper, who later changed his name to Hopeful Christian.…[Continue Reading...]
New Zealand’s most notorious fundamentalist cult, Gloriavale Christian Community, has a long history of abuse and manipulation. For nearly 60 years, the isolated religious group has been governed by strict rules, with leaders demanding obedience and exerting control over every…[Continue Reading...]
When police investigating a homicide arrived at an Auckland home linked to a religious sect, they found five women. It was discovered those women - “potential eye-witnesses” - were unlawfully in New Zealand and were later deported. The sect’s leader,…[Continue Reading...]
If you haven’t heard of Gloriavale yet, strap in because Paramount+’s new documentary, Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, aims to take audiences deep into the New Zealand commune that partly inspired The Handmaid’s Tale. The three-part series, which arrives next month,…[Continue Reading...]
The horrifying revelation left everyone who encountered it profoundly disturbed by the atrocities that had unfolded behind closed doors. A harrowing incest cult came to light, founded by two great-great grandparents in an isolated rural valley, hidden from society's view.…[Continue Reading...]
The Labour Inspectorate did not investigate after hearing serious employment allegations in Gloriavale, including a group of 14-year-olds running a large dairy farm and girls working in New Zealand’s largest kitchen, a court has heard. A group of men and…[Continue Reading...]
More than two decades after Auckland’s Centrepoint community was shut down, one survivor says New Zealand is still failing to protect people from high-control groups. Caroline Ansley, who grew up in Centrepoint, is joining forces with other cult survivors and…[Continue Reading...]
Chantal Moss never imagined she’d find herself under the spell of an online cult delivered under the guise of New Age wellness. Growing up in Paparimu, a tiny country settlement south of Auckland, she always felt most at peace outdoors…[Continue Reading...]
A second Northland man facing sex offence charges, who is linked to a secretive sect known as the Two by Twos, is fighting to keep his name secret. The 81-year-old is appealing the Whangarei District Court's decision to lift name…[Continue Reading...]
A psychotherapist says she believes there are potentially cult-like characteristics to the life Tom Phillips created on the run with his children. Phillips died in a shootout with police in the early morning of 8 September, and one of his…[Continue Reading...]
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