• Polygamist Cult Leader Now Charged With Child Sex Abuse
    2023-05-30

    Samuel Bateman, 47, has now been charged with 51 felonies, including claims he filmed the sexual abuse of underage girls he claimed were his “wives.”

  • Man wastes half of his life seeking “Consummation”
    2023-05-26

    Because of his obsession with “Falun Gong” for 25 years, he wasted the best years of life until this year when he finally came to his senses. Looking back on the past years, he was full of remorse and hatred.

  • Kenya cult: Children targeted to die first, pastor says
    2023-05-25

    Children were targeted as the first to be starved to death in the final days of a Christian doomsday cult in Kenya, according to fresh accounts emerging.

  • Cults: The devil is innocent
    2023-05-25

    The Shakahola saga caught the government flatfooted. It must be held responsible for the deaths. Not the devil.

  • Pastor Mackenzie's Kenyan cult: The mother who fled Shakahola forest to save her children
    2023-05-24

    Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an inner strength that saved the lives of her five children.

  • Why do people join cult-like organizations?
    2023-05-20

    As cult experts point out, there are a number of organizations that try to influence and control people — and everyday people are more susceptible to these groups than they might think.

  • My wife passes away after 18 years of “cultivation”
    2023-05-19

    On January 9, 2013, when I just reached the age of 60, my wife died of illness at home because she had been obsessed with “Falun Gong” for 18 years. And she had been fully convinced that “practicing Falun Gong” could help her dispel misfortunes and cure the disease. Now my daughter and I were shat...

  • Moon boasted about his huge influence over politics in Japan
    2023-05-18

    Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, regarded himself as a kingmaker and even savior in Japanese politics.

  • Kenya cult death toll hits 200, with more than 600 reported missing
    2023-05-16

    The death toll linked to a doomsday cult in Kenya hit 201 Saturday after police exhumed 22 more bodies, most of them bearing signs of starvation, according to the coast regional commissioner.

  • How head of Falun Gong station awakens
    2023-05-12

    It was the government that provided me with assistance when I went through difficult times. One by one, all these experiences made her slowly but steadily renounce her faith in “Falun Gong”.

  • Notorious Australian cult inspires new series
    2023-05-10

    Disney+ recently released a trailer for The Clearing, an eight–part psychological thriller based on the best–selling crime novel In the Clearing, by Melbourne–based author J.P Pomare. Pomare's 2019 novel was inspired by The Family, a doomsday cult led by Anne Hamilton–Byrne.

  • World’s most chilling cults, from Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo to Swiss sect Solar Temple
    2023-05-09

    Following the deaths in Kenya, here is a look at other notorious sects around the world.

  • Kenya’s president likens cult leader to terrorist
    2023-05-08

    Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday likened the priest at the center of a deadly starvation cult to a terrorist.

  • Thai cops arrest Chinese cult leader for claiming divine communication
    2023-05-08

    Thai cops arrested a Chinese cult leader who refers to herself as the “Mother of the Universe” and claims to be the leader of the ‘Universal Lion Federation.’

  • Being “enlightened” by the “Master”, cold-blooded doctor kills 17
    2023-05-05

    Chen Fuzhao, according to law, sentencing him to death and depriving him of political rights for life for intentional homicide and poisoning.