Meanwhile, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the government’s public cybersecurity agency, also strongly advised to never plug in USB devices that come from an unknown source.
Presidential candidate Mike Pence received $550,000 last year for speaking to an offshoot of the Unification Church, whose current leader is bitterly opposed to her gun-loving, Trump-supporting son who was close enough to the Jan. 6 insurrection to be tear-gassed.
A majority of Japanese universities bolstered measures against cults recruiting on campus after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s fatal shooting a year ago added to concerns that students could be easy targets, a Kyodo News survey shows.
Dozens of members rescued from a church whose pastor is accused of telling followers to starve themselves appeared in court. A judge sent them to rehab rather than jail to await another hearing.
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Scientology leader David Miscavige of enabling a culture of sexual abuse.
In 1997, the Heaven’s Gate cult took part in a mass suicide, under the assumption that they would ascend to heaven in a UFO. Marshall Applewhite, one of the founders of this cult, was a music professor at The University of Alabama for a few years in the mid-’60s before teaching at St. Thomas Univers...
As one of the few cases in Japan in which the court issued a dissolution order under the Religious Corporations Law, the disclosure is likely to boost calls for the proper preservation of official records.
Japan's welfare ministry says it will investigate adoptions arranged by the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church, following allegations that they may be illegal.
From allegations of violence against children, to claims of brainwashing, end-of-world "doomsday" preaching and the shunning of medicine.
The state’s parole board denied parole for the woman convicted in Fall River’s infamous “cult murders,” saying Robin Murphy has not proved she is willing to be honest or take accountability for her past behavior.
The Seekers were formed in Chicago by Dorothy Martin, who claimed that she was a messenger for an alien lifeform known as The Guardians, who predicted a catastrophic flood that would kill billions.
A man who claimed to be proficient in Qimen Dun Jia (the Art of Becoming Invisible), horoscope and other "magic", alone or with the help of another man, had defrauded 19 victims of a total of more than 6 million yuan.
Women who accused the That ‘70s Show actor and prominent Scientologist of rape say Scientology helped silence them while they were in the church
Eighty members of a Ugandan religious cult who had been convinced to travel to Ethiopia and starve themselves have been repatriated, authorities in Uganda say.
Some of them turned against their beloved ones and as the result, leading to the breakdown of their families; some suffered from serious illness and even died with the dream of “reaching Consummation” or "ascending to heavens".
I was on a New York City bus, tired and eager to get home, when a woman who lacked all ability to “read the room” approached me and, unbidden, sat down beside me.