If you’re a reader of 19th-century literature, you’ve probably rifled through the footnotes at times to find out what now-obscure words mean. One word that crops up in the works of Dickens and occasionally as late as the 1930s is…[Continue Reading...]
A Scientology-linked addiction charity accused of putting vulnerable people through psychological drills that left them “traumatised” and in “trance-like states” has been reprimanded by the Charity Commission. Narconon UK was ordered by the watchdog to address a “range of shortfalls”…[Continue Reading...]
Hannah, now 35, rose to fame between 2007 and 2009 as one of the leading stars of the Channel 4/E4 teen drama Skins, in which she played Cassie Ainsworth. She then joined Game of Thrones in 2012, playing wildling girl…[Continue Reading...]
A CULT victim has described how brain-washed members donated all their money and were subjected to bizarre ‘teaching’ videos of the sect's leaders in hot tubs. Richard Turner was ironically working for a modern slavery support charity tied to the…[Continue Reading...]
But The Sun can reveal that the mystical organisation with thousands of followers across the globe hid far darker secrets in the UK. We have spoken to women who claim they were the victims of child abuse at two of…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Scientology has asked Mid Sussex District Council to impose an order stopping people from protesting outside its British headquarters in East Grinstead. A request for a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) was submitted to the council in…[Continue Reading...]
Members of the mysterious religious group, which counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its devotees, tried to snap up Adele's mansion to expand their Sussex foothold. Never mind Chasing Pavements, Adele had a run-in with secretive Scientologists who were…[Continue Reading...]
A Covid conspiracy theorist who called for the overthrow of the government and violence against nurses and teachers over the rollout of the vaccination is facing jail after being convicted of terrorism. Patrick Ruane, 55, weaponised the social media app…[Continue Reading...]
A scheme to compensate members of a defunct religious cult known as the Jesus Army has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse, and revealed about one in six children had been sexually abused. It is thought some of those accused,…[Continue Reading...]
A controversial church that has been branded a “cult” by critics has opened a new branch in Bristol. Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) has taken on the former Bristol City Mission church on Great George Street in…[Continue Reading...]
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