These are the psychological tactics the Manson Family, NXIVM and other cults used to control their members. Cults are complicated, and aren’t always easy to spot. They may claim to be places of safet...

Hideyuki Teshigawara, the director general for promoting the reform of the Unification Church, speaks at a press conference in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 22. The Yomiuri Shimbun File Photo A num...

Kochi City Police Commissioner CH Nagaraju Kerala Police on Tuesday arrested three persons, including one woman, suspected for luring and killing women allegedly as human sacrifices in black magic ...

South Korean authorities arrested a cult leader over rape and molestation allegations on Tuesday. Jung Myung-seok, the 77-year-old leader of the controversial religious group Christian Gospel Missi...

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda on Thursday admitted attending four meetings related to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church. "From now, I wil...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Wednesday. The Yomiuri Shimbun October 19, 2022 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that illegal a...

Tuesday, Oct. 18 Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says he will instruct the government to submit bills aimed at providing relief to the victims of the shady practices of the former Unifica...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida responds to a question at the Oct. 18 session of the Lower House Budget Committee. Koichi Ueda Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to quickly push legislation to hel...

Project Mayhem is an all-male cult – but unlike the real cults that Sarah Steel writes about in Do As I Say, Project Mayhem is fictitious. It comes from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk in his masterpiece ...

A no trespassing sign is placed outside the entrance of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, more commonly known as the Unification Church is seen at its Tokyo headquarters in Toky...