Justice Peter McClellan and commissioner Helen Milroy at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse public hearing into allegations of child sexual abuse in the Jeho...
Liz is pictured in South Korea in 2011, when she went to visit Jung in prison at the organisation's request A South Korean cult has been accused of recruiting vulnerable young Australian women at s...
In this photo from Aug. 20, 2022, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Bremer County Republicans' Grill and Chill lunch in Waverly, Iowa. - Scott OlsonGetty Images North AmericaTNS Presid...
A majority of Japanese universities have bolstered measures against cults recruiting on campus after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatal shot a year ago. | BLOOMBERG OSAKA –A majorit...
Dozens of members rescued from a church whose pastor is accused of telling followers to starve themselves appeared in court. A judge sent them to rehab rather than jail to await another hearing. Ju...
Scientology leader David Miscavige A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Scientology leader David Miscavige of enabling a culture of sexual abuse. After Church of Scient...
In 1997, the Heaven’s Gate cult took part in a mass suicide, under the assumption that they would ascend to heaven in a UFO. Marshall Applewhite, one of the founders of this cult, was a music profes...
The building which houses the Tokyo District Court and Tokyo High Court in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area. Internet Photo File The Tokyo District Court has disposed of records related to a 1995 request ...
Japan's welfare ministry says it will investigate adoptions arranged by the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church, following allegations that they may be illegal. The group, now ...
An hour's drive from Melbourne, in the Geelong suburb of Norlane, sits an unassuming old brick hall. From the outside, it appears to be any other church in the middle of suburbia. But what ex-memb...