• China Sentences 5 on Charges of Spreading Cult Teachings
    2023-07-19

    The Intermediate People's Court of Panjin on Saturday sentenced five members of an outlawed cult known as Quannengshen (the Eastern Lightning) to jail for spreading the group's ideologies and recruiting new followers.

  • China Executes Members of Sect for Beating a Woman to Death
    2023-07-19

    A Chinese court announced on Monday that two members of a banned religious sect had been executed for beating a woman to death at a McDonald’s restaurant in May, an episode that was caught by a cellphone camera and incited outrage across China.

  • Is the Clean World really clean?
    2023-07-19

    “Clean World” is another mask carefully selected by the Falun Gong organization abroad to deceive the world.

  • Old man and his Mid-Autumn Festivals
    2023-07-14

    Old Chen is still full of hope, looking forward that his wife could return home on this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, and the family can have a happy reunion dinner……

  • Providence Church Jung Myung Seok: Australian women 'brainwashed' and lured to South Korean sex cult
    2023-07-12

    Women were sent to the Wolmyeongdong compound (pictured) not for any spiritual reasons, but to allegedly be sexually assaulted by Jung Myung Seok

  • Story of a new “White-haired Girl”
    2023-07-07

    After a period of deprogramming work, Zhang had seen clearly the evil nature of "Almighty God", and completely broke away from the mental control of the dangerous cult.

  • Mystery woman behind propaganda USB and cryptic note spotted in other New Zealand centres
    2023-07-06

    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.

  • Revealed: Mike Pence received more than $500K from an offshoot of controversial Unification Church
    2023-07-05

    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.

  • Majority of Japanese universities bolster anti-cult measures: survey
    2023-07-04

    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.

  • Kenyan Cult Survivors, Still Refusing to Eat, Face Suicide Charges
    2023-06-27

    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.

  • Scientology sued by worker who claims she was forced to marry abuser
    2023-06-27

    A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Scientology leader David Miscavige of enabling a culture of sexual abuse.

  • Which UA professor started a cult?
    2023-06-27

    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...

  • Tokyo court disposed of records linked to AUM cult dissolution order
    2023-06-27

    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 government to investigate adoptions arranged by ex-Unification Church
    2023-06-27

    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.

  • Special investigation: Inside the cult-like doomsday church
    2023-06-27

    From allegations of violence against children, to claims of brainwashing, end-of-world "doomsday" preaching and the shunning of medicine.

  • Woman convicted in Fall River 'cult murders' denied parole — here's why
    2023-06-27

    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.