GUELPH – Brianna Bell was the first journalist to break the story about abuse in the Two by Twos church, a story the Guelph-based freelance journalist wrote for the Daily Dot two years ago. Six months after that, the FBI…[Continue Reading...]
Known as the Two By Twos or The Truth, the church has sent an email to its members with "resources created to offer possible pathways for those affected by sexual harm". Police in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA were…[Continue Reading...]
Typed neatly on headed notepaper, the instructions for Reverend Christopher Brain’s “homebase team” were clear. The group of predominantly young, attractive women, who had devoted themselves to a church movement they believed was changing the world, were “to do anything”…[Continue Reading...]
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has dismissed one of two sexual abuse convictions against a former Aroostook County Jehovah’s Witness elder, and asked for him to be resentenced on the other count. Ernest Fyans, a former elder for Kingdom Hall…[Continue Reading...]
It was a discovery that shocked all those who witnessed the horror that had been happening in one family home. It was an incest cult of nightmares was uncovered and had been started by two great-great grandparents in a remote…[Continue Reading...]
A former priest accused of running an abusive cult received sexual massages to relieve “terrible tension headaches”, a court has heard. Chris Brain, 68, led a group in the 1980s and 1990s in Sheffield called the Nine O’Clock Service (NOS),…[Continue Reading...]
A Pennsylvania attorney with a registered address in Palmyra has given up his license to practice law as the result of child sexual assault convictions in Virginia and pending child sex charges in Berks County. On July 30, the Pennsylvania…[Continue Reading...]
An Arizona appeals court has resuscitated a high-profile lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling unanimously that the church may have been obligated to report a man to police after he confessed to sexually abusing his…[Continue Reading...]
WELLINGTON: The leader of an isolated and conservative Christian commune in New Zealand pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a dozen indecency and assault charges against women and girls who were members of the religious group. The admission of guilt from…[Continue Reading...]
Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s…[Continue Reading...]
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