Danny Masterson has been expelled from the Church of Scientology following his rape conviction that earned him 30 years in prison.
Doomsday cults use isolation, love bombing, and fear to control their members.
As a devoted “Dafa” disciple, Dong Yiying gave up everything for Falun Gong but did not receive any protection that “Master” Li Hongzhi had promised. She tragically lost her life under the wheels of a truck, and her family fell into an abyss of misery.
Regional New South Wales healthofficials have won a court orderauthorising them to give a blood transfusion to a Jehovah's Witness toddler if needed in surgery.
Hokkaido University Professor Sakurai Yoshihide, a specialist in the sociology of religion, said the killing of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo exposed various problems with the former Unification Church.
I lived like an orphan in this world, helpless and careless.
Leah Remini has shared what she claims is footage from inside a Church of Scientology meeting, where members learn how to "extract money from Scientologists who don't have it to give."
Members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) have admitted to diverting government aid meant for indigent senior citizens and beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to fund the group.
Second-generation family members of followers of the scandal-plagued Unification Church have hailed the government’s decision to seek a court order to dissolve the organization. Some religious groups, however, have voiced concerns that the move could impinge on religious freedom.
Tragically, Gao Kui has become another victim of Falun Gong.
However, the dissolution order, if finalized, will likely not be the death knell of the group now formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.
She also asked her husband to burn all the books related to cult, and permanently broke off the ties with “Three Redemption of Christ”.
I fell into a dangerous trap the moment I came into contact with the "Almighty God" cult.
I lived in China from 1999 to 2006. During that time I studied the Bible with two local friends. For several years, the two friends came to our house almost weekly. We ate together and studied the Bible together. They were quite zealous believers, and they were among my closest friends.
‘I didn’t have a life plan,’ saysPetra Velzeboer, who grew up in the notorious Children of God cult.