SHAH ALAM – Sabrina Bolivar's childhood was far from ordinary. Growing up as a daughter of a former top management of Al-Arqam, now known as GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH), she experienced a world that was isolated and oppressive. The…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- Garbage piled up in his family's home. He had to miss long stretches of school to take part in "study sessions." These were just two aspects of being a "blessed second-generation" member of the Unification Church (now the…[Continue Reading...]
When Pearl Valor reflects on the key reasons that led to her and husband Paul breaking away from the reclusive Gloriavale community, one stands out above the rest: “We wanted to give our kids a better life than we had.”…[Continue Reading...]
SHAH ALAM – Daughter of a former top management of Al-Arqam, now known as GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISB), shares the story of she and her siblings managed to leave the cult and the impact it has left in her…[Continue Reading...]
A TikTok video uploaded by the daughter of a former GISBH (Global Ikhwan Sdn Bhd) member, Sabrina Bolivar, has gone viral, as she openly urges the public to stop supporting the organization, citing her personal experiences of neglect and trauma…[Continue Reading...]
By the age of 30, Tabitha Haugh still hadn’t been to the movies, had a first date, gotten a haircut or graduated from high school. Most of her very sheltered existence had been spent in Homestead Heritage, a religious community…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who spent 14 years married to a man in a Christian cult has spoken of how she finally left him just as he went to fetch his gun. Tia Levings is author of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape…[Continue Reading...]
When Jerald Walker was a boy, his school principal called him into his office and asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. “My answer was: ‘A god,’” Walker recalls, laughing. “He thought I was kidding but…[Continue Reading...]
There was something frighteningly different about the violent energy that night – the way her husband abruptly left the house, the forces she felt telling her to run – that made Tia Levings finally bundle her four kids into the…[Continue Reading...]
My parents joined the Children of God in the early 1970s. Back then, it was very much part of the Jesus freaks, hippie revolution. There were lots of people wanting to change the world, to have a different way of…[Continue Reading...]
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