Police arrested 28 people from a Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox sect suspected of extorting advertising in their newspaper from big companies. Police said the suspects threatened executives of private and state-owned companies into placing ads in Hapeles, an ultra-Orthodox newspaper associated with…[Continue Reading...]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police on Wednesday said they have arrested a man claiming to be a prophet of an apostolic sect at a shrine where believers stay in a compound and authorities found 16 unregistered graves, including those…[Continue Reading...]
Police said Ishmael Chokurongerwa, 56, led a sect with more than 1,000 members at a farm about 21 miles north-west of Harare, Zimbabwe. Children were living alongside other ‘believers’ while ‘being used to perform various physical activities for the benefit…[Continue Reading...]
A cult leader leader who called himself by the name “Total Transcendence” has been arrested by Spanish police after he allegedly doped his followers with mind-numbing mercury-laced homemade elixirs. José Manuel Cánovas, 50, was nabbed on Wednesday following a raid…[Continue Reading...]
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A team of officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), National Intelligence Service (NIS) and community leaders on Monday, May 8, raided a church in Kwale following reports of cultic teachings by the preacher. The team stormed into Rainbow…[Continue Reading...]
A second starvation cult has been uncovered in Kenya with 31 people locked up without food. Police said the group were found weak and hungry after starving themselves for almost a week. Among the rescued were 14 adults and 17…[Continue Reading...]
Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former actor turned alleged cult leader accused of sexually assaulting young indigenous girls during a period spanning two decades, according to police records obtained by The Associated Press.…[Continue Reading...]
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