On the surface, and to uncritical eyes, practitioners of the practice of Falun Gong, a school of Chinese qi gong, are the innocent victims of horrific suppression by Beijing. In a situation parallel to the crackdowns in Tibet, it is also a fact that Falun Gong has been the recipient of years of vici...
Five members of a religious cult known as the Church of Almighty God have been arrested on suspicion of beating a young woman to death in a McDonald’s restaurant in Shandong for refusing to give her mobile phone number.
A local court has rejected the dismissal of proceedings against a cult member for the sacrificial murder of her three-day-old baby in late 2012, after defense lawyer had argued that the defendant’s mental health made her unfit for trial.
Cultism is a disease — a spiritual disease. One among many, to be sure, but one seldom diagnosed properly or treated adequately.Just as a lack of nutrition and hygiene lead to disease, cultism flourishes in the absence of truth and hope.
Three Johane Masowe YeChishanu cult members facing charges of assaulting police officers, Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) officials and journalists at their shrine in Budiriro 2, Harare last Friday have been denied bail by a Harare magistrate.
Over the past century, this secretive sect has advocated a doctrine of free love and drug use - yet that didn't stop Peaches from getting the letters OTO tattooed on her right arm or praising Crowley as a 'beautiful writer and thinker'.
A jury Thursday sided with a family living in a polygamous community, awarding them $5.2 million for years of religious discrimination. The ruling concludes the Cooke family’s civil rights trial, in which they argued that the mostly-polygamous towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, discri...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the appeal of self-acclaimed “rabbi” and convicted serial child-abuser Elior Chen. Chen was convicted in November 2010 of being the “spiritual mentor” of a cult that committed a series of horrific acts of child abuse.
The group was approaching fellow diners at a McDonald's restaurant in an eastern Chinese city on a recent Wednesday night, asking for their cellphone numbers, when one woman refused.
The group was approaching fellow diners at a McDonald's restaurant in an eastern Chinese city on a recent Wednesday night, asking for their cellphone numbers, when one woman refused.
The brutal killing of a woman inside a McDonald’s restaurant in eastern China is highlighting the sometimes violent tactics of a banned religious cult. The “Eastern Lighting church,” is a millenarian religious group believed to have as many as three million followers.
The brutal murder of a woman at a fast food restaurant by members of a religious cult in East China's Shandong Province has triggered debate over the spread of heretic religious sects, which analysts attributed to the absence of spiritual support during the country's drastic social transition.
Why is Falun Gong dangerous?Because it is a new "eastern religion" that disguises itself as exercise classes, non-religious relaxation and mediation. These exercises are the actual religious ritual of this eastern religion. It is not truth at all, but a man made eastern religion.
A Chinese cult known for physical violence and coercion is prompting Chinese pastors to upgrade theological instruction in their congregations and help government officials understand the difference between orthodox Christianity and cult-like offshoots.
Since 2008, the Shen Yun Art Troupe and the "Feitian Arts College" under Falun Gong have repeatedly enlisted students around the globe, and in Year 2008 alone three batches of recruits are selected. On the one hand, such a frequency is alarming; and on the other the Admission Requirements are somewh...