A bill offering support to victims of the Unification Church passed Japan's House of Representatives on Dec. 8.
At every gathering spiritualleader Dimas Kanjeng held, tens of thousands would attend, recalled businessman and lawyer Muhammad Ali. At the height of Dimas’ popularity, he was estimated to have 23,000 followers.
With the help of my family, I was able to gradually have a normal family life again. Looking back on those years when I believed in the “Almighty God”, I was totally obsessed with its fallacies, which deeply harmed not only my family but also myself.
A Japanese sociologist known for his thoughts on girls dating for money and the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, was seriously wounded Tuesday in a suspected knife attack on a Tokyo university campus
The reason why I share with friends the true story of my family here, is that I hope anti-cult experts could reach out to us and provide with professional deprogramming assistance, and help my mother and my younger sister see as soon as possible the true color of “Almighty God” cult.
Looking back on those years when I believed in the “Almighty God”, I was totally obsessed with its fallacies, which deeply harmed not only my family but also myself.
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They are ‘involuntary celibates’ or ‘incels’, part of a misogynistic subculture on shady online forums where users exchange fantasies about rape and mass murder.
After hearing my uncle’s experience, my mother and cousin cried quite bitterly, and everybody on the spot all hated the evil cult to guts. Fortunately, my uncle fully came to his sense after that and declared he would never believe in the “Almighty God” again.
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A recent survey of the children of followers of religious groups has found strong support for establishing a mechanism for them to "escape" both their parents and the groups if they are troubled by the group's activities.
In July 1998, Cheng Qiuluan was drawn into “Falun Gong” cult before she could think it straight. At that time, she was only 40 years old. In the following ten years, she had been struggling in the claws of “Falun Gong” cult.
Reviewing the case with a fresh look, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dispensed with the possibility of resolving the case under either New York or Maine law and affirmed the dismissal under “dispositive First Amendment principles.”
A group of religious researchers in Japan has called on authorities to exercise their right to ask questions to bring about a swift investigation into the religious group previously known as the Unification Church.
The Cultural Affairs Agency has drafted rules on exercising the right to ask questions in a proposed investigation into the Unification Church, sources said Monday.