Spanish police arrested five people running a group that charged hefty sums for rituals involving animal sacrifice and illicit drugs. The cult leader was jailed after followers required psychiatric treatment. Spanish National Police dismantled a group in the Canary Islands…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Spain have arrested three people on suspicion of belonging to the Base, a global neo-Nazi terrorist group that incites and trains members in techniques to overthrow governments and bring about a race war. The group, which has been…[Continue Reading...]
Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday. The women belong to a group of…[Continue Reading...]
MADRID, Spain - A group of Spanish nuns who were excommunicated by the Catholic Church and joined a sect appeared in court on Tuesday vowing to resist eviction from their 15th-century convent. The year-long dispute saw the nuns from the…[Continue Reading...]
Father Marcelino de Andrés Núñez, a priest of the Legionaries of Christ and former secretary of Marcial Maciel, was arrested in Spain and released subject to restrictions, accused of abusing five underage girls at a school where he served as…[Continue Reading...]
The ruling follows years of legal battles after Santamaría and his colleagues published a 2022 report with the Institute Salud Sin Bulos, in which they argued that Gestalt Therapy is not only ineffective but also financially and psychologically harmful to…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Spain have busted a sectarian and heavily armed organization. Three people have been arrested and eight others are also being investigated for organized crime, fraud, coercion and assault, according to the Guardia Civil police unit. The gang, based…[Continue Reading...]
The Vatican has excommunicated 10 nuns from northern Spain after a months-long standoff over a property dispute and amid claims they belonged to a sect, it emerged Saturday. "It was the sisters themselves who expressed their free and personal decision…[Continue Reading...]
A Catholic nun in Spain recently warned of a new "cult" after several nuns in her convent announced they were breaking from the Catholic Church. The Pillar, a new site focusing on aspects of the Catholic Church, last week reported…[Continue Reading...]
A Poor Clare nun who left her monastery of Belorado, in Burgos, Spain, says she had to leave to avoid becoming part of a cult, after her community declared it was leaving the Catholic Church and placed itself under the…[Continue Reading...]
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