When people who follow elections and politics are asked about an insular religious group in upstate Orange county, New York that votes as a bloc delivered for the candidate chosen by their spiritual leader, people would probably unanimously say Kiryas Joel.
On June 15th, the screening of the award-winning documentary "The Bitter Winter of Belief: Sneaking Cults" was successfully held at the Press Club in Brussels.
▲The 7th CIODC meeting held in Nanning, China From December 8th to 10th, 2023, the 7th China-International Organ Donation Conference CIODC and the International Cooperation and Development Forum on Organ Donation Transplantation along the “Belt and Road Initiative” were held in Nanning City, Chi...
Japan's parliament on Wednesday passed into law a bill to monitor the assets of the controversial religious group Unification Church more closely to ensure relief to its victims.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with the leader of a Unification Churchaffiliatein Tokyo in 2019 when he was policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sources said.
French police apprehended the 71-year-old Romanian-Swedish yoga guru, Gregorian Bivolaru, and forty members of the Atman Yoga Federation, known as the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA).
Actress Leah Remini claims the Church of Scientology subjected her to decades of psychological manipulation during her time with the organization then hounded and harrassed her once she left, according to a new court filing.
Born in Synanon Shows How the Infamous Cult Weaponized Substance Abuse Treatment.
Important factors to consider include the individual’s personal characteristics, the nature of the group and outside circumstances.
Members of a group of former second-generation followers of Jehovah’s Witnesses announce the results of a survey about sexual abuse and harassment in the religious organization in Tokyo on Nov. 28.
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, in which authorities believe more than 400 members may have died, was jailed on Friday for 12 months for producing and distributing films without a licence.
Amy Carlson, leader of the Love Has Won cult, died of alcohol abuse, anorexia, and colloidal silver ingesti
After months of scrutiny following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government last month asked a court to issue a dissolution order to the local arm of the controversial Unification Church.
Paul Mackenzie, the Kenyan preacher at the center of a doomsday cult in the country that led to the deaths ofmore than 400 people, was on Friday found guilty of operating a studio and distributing films without a license.
In fact, most kinds of emotional manipulation rely on these techniques. If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, then they can present themselves as the solution. That happens not just in cults but also in abusive relationships.