• Japan starts consultation service for Unification Church woes
    2022-09-15

    The government started Monday a telephone consultation service for people experiencing trouble with the Unification Church, a religious group that has stirred controversy since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed over alleged links to the group in July.

  • Senior LDP executive backs discussions on anti-cult law
    2022-09-14

    Toshiaki Endo (center), who chairs the General Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, addresses a meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo in August as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida looks on.

  • “Levelling-up” destroyed woman’s family
    2022-09-12

    Zhang Chunying was so addicted to the “Falun Gong” cult that she put an end to her formerly happy family life.

  • Thousands Are Holed Up in a Politician’s Farm, Waiting for the End of the World
    2022-09-05

    The Cambodian populist with a growing cult-like following told his followers that a black hole has formed in his spine, warning him of impending biblical-level floods.

  • Inside apocalyptic cult where followers were urged to kill themselves and leader abused virgin teens in desert
    2022-08-26

    FOLLOWERS of an apocalyptic desert cult run by a man who claims he is the Son of God could kill themselves at any moment and no one could stop them.

  • EDITORIAL: Government must do more to help Unification Church victims
    2022-08-26

    Many adherents of the former Unification Church and their families are struggling with complicated and serious problems.

  • Nothing could make up for my 20 years of life
    2022-08-22

    “Falun Gong” enticed me to abandon my family, cut off from society and escape from reality.

  • 9 warning signs from Japan expert that college kids are being wooed by cults
    2022-08-18

    These cults take measures to deal with parents' disapproval. This aggravates relationships between parents and children, and drives the latter even deeper into cult activities. The most effective method is to talk about it with consultation desks at schools and expert institutions.

  • What makes woman jump off a building without hesitation
    2022-08-15

    It’s said that 30 years old women are just in the prime of life. Unfortunately, it was not true for 31-year-old Xiao Ying whose life suddenly came to an end for believing in cult.

  • From mass weddings to sex rituals, life inside the controversial Unification Church
    2022-08-14

    Other second-gens who left the Unification Church also spent their post-church years navigating the "outside" world they'd been taught to fear, while grappling with depression, shame, and other mental health issues.

  • Letters to the Editor: Who publishes Epoch Times?
    2022-08-12

    Today I found an unsolicited copy of Epoch Times in my mailbox. I had done a search on this publication once before when I saw a questionable article from them online.

  • From 'slapping therapy' to steep 'liberation' fees, ex-members speak out about life inside the Moonies 'cult'
    2022-08-09

    AfterReverend Sun Myung Moon's death in 2012, the number of second-gens who left the Unification Church continued to grow. As of July 29, 2022, there were 960 members in a private Facebook group for second-gens, the nickname given to children born into the controversial church. Many made the diffic...

  • The trap of “enthusiasm”
    2022-08-08

    I was taken to the police station and told that what I participated was not a Christian activity but the one organized by a cult called “Mentuhui” in the name of Christianity.

  • Shinzo Abe's suspected assassin wanted revenge against the Unification Church. Here's what growing up in the Moonies 'cult'
    2022-08-05

    ·Many children born into the church grappled with its strict expectations.·Ex-members talked to Insider about their experiences growing up in — and leaving — the controversial church.

  • Aichi gov. says Unification Church tampered with telegram to fake praise of leader
    2022-08-04

    A telegram sent by Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura to a mass gathering of the religious group Family Federation for World Peace and Unification was rewritten to appear to praise the organization's leader Hak Ja Han Moon, who was attending the function, the governor's camp has stated in a protest to the rel...

  • They lose their son forever
    2022-08-01

    Being obsessed with “Falun Gong”, they believed in the fallacies of “curing diseases by eliminating karma” boasted by Li Hongzhi, and refused any medical treatment for their son’s pneumonia. As a result, their young son lost his life