FILE - Cult preacher Pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of the Good News International church, foreground center, and some of his helpers arrive at the Shanzu Law Courts under tight security, in Mombasa,...

The leader of a Buddhist sect who is accused of trying to control his followers’ minds by giving them homemade medicines containing mercury has been arrested in Spain. José Manuel Cánovas, a 50-y...

A 20-year-old man raised as a third-generation Jehovah’s Witness speaks about having to wait eight years for heart surgery due to his parents’ refusal of blood transfusions on Nov. 19. Amane Shimaza...

A team of lawyers has released the results of its survey on alleged child abuse by members of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group in Japan. The team held a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. I...

Former environment minister Yoshiaki Harada is pictured in this image from Peace TV, a site run by the Unification Church. TOKYO -- Former environment minister Yoshiaki Harada has become the de fac...

Roch Thériault was an intelligent and charismatic religious extremist who, in the 1970s, founded a commune known as the Ant Hill Kids in the woods around Quebec. Thériault had persuaded a do...

Tomihiro Tanaka, President of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and its senior member Hideyuki Teshigawara bow at the start of a press conference Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Tokyo. T...

E.l.f. Beauty Inc.’s stock tumbled 6% on Friday, after short seller Spruce Point Capital Management said the company has ties to the now-defunct NXIVM cult and may use some of its teaching in its ma...

MANILA, Philippines — Criminal charges have been filed against the leader and members of Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. SBSI, an alleged religious cult in Surigao del Norte, according to the Depa...

Roch Thériault was an intelligent and charismatic religious extremist who, in the 1970s, founded a commune known as the Ant Hill Kids in the woods around Quebec. Thériault had persuaded a dozen or ...