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.”
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.
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.
The Shakahola saga caught the government flatfooted. It must be held responsible for the deaths. Not the devil.
Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an inner strength that saved the lives of her five children.
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.
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...
Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, regarded himself as a kingmaker and even savior in Japanese politics.
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.
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”.
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.
Following the deaths in Kenya, here is a look at other notorious sects around the world.
Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday likened the priest at the center of a deadly starvation cult to a terrorist.
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.’
Chen Fuzhao, according to law, sentencing him to death and depriving him of political rights for life for intentional homicide and poisoning.