Richard Siu jokes his fashion sense could be better, but for the first 25 years of his life, his outfits were covered by the robes of the Jin-Gang-Dhyana religious group. It's a celebrated Buddhist organisation, but one Richard describes as…[Continue Reading...]
The woman, going by the name of Liz, says her world changed when she was targeted walking through a shopping mall. She told Abbie Chatfield’s podcast It’s A Lot she was convinced to join an art group and the clan…[Continue Reading...]
They've been dubbed America's 'most hated family' and it seems there's no level they won't stoop to in order to shock. The family within the Westboro Baptist church, based in Topeka, Kansas, first found notoriety after featuring in Louis Theroux’s…[Continue Reading...]
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — Growing up, Briell Decker had 13 siblings, two mothers and a father who had more than 70 wives. Now, she's living life on her own. Decker was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was raised in an extremist religious 'cult' has lifted a lid on the harrowing 'abuse' that she endured as a child. Tamara MC, 50, revealed that she was taught she 'wasn't worthy of cleanliness,' and forced to…[Continue Reading...]
A former member of a controversial religious cult has spoken out about her experiences - and will tell a Glasgow audience how to recognise the red flags themselves. The Children of God - currently known as The Family International -…[Continue Reading...]
Kilifi - A survivor of the Shakahola cult by controversial pastor Paul MacKenzie has lived to tell the story. According to a report by DW, the survivor, Salama Masha, had just started rebuilding her life after a terrifying ordeal in…[Continue Reading...]
For five years, while locked into a misogynistic doomsday cult in Ontario, Kenzie Cates had suppressed her desires to make music – until a friend managed to help her escape last autumn. “It felt like a clamp on my brain had…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
Kenyan police are still recovering bodies of members of a starvation cult who died near Malindi. Investigators have already found more than 400 victims, and fear there could be hundreds more. Many were children. A survivor describes what happened.[Continue Reading...]
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