A Jehovah's Witness church elder who raped a fellow worshipper and abused vulnerable schoolgirls has failed in his bid to get his 14 year jail term cut.Mark Sewell, 54, of Porthkerry Road, Barry, was convicted of eight historic sex charges against four women earlier this year and was sentenced at Me...
A Japanese security agency is seeking to extend the surveillance period of two religious groups linked to the Aum Supreme Truth cult. The Public Security Intelligence Agency requested on Monday that the Public Security Examination Commission authorize surveillance for another three years before the ...
A judge has stopped the children of a Jehovah's Witness from going to church and attending witness meetings and allowed them to attend birthday parties and Christmas celebrations. The High Court ruling, released publicly today, comes after the children's separated parents appealed against Family Co...
Church of Scientology will be scrutinized by religion experts after the Russian Justice Ministry refused to register the statute of the Church of Scientology in Moscow, RAPSI learnt in Moscow's Izmailovsky District Court on Monday.
Spanish media "Thelocal.es" reported on December 13,2014. A Spanish court issued a statement saying,two cult leaders suspected sexual assault and grab hundreds of followers of money by local police custody.
In China’s latest attempt to crack down on religious cults, 21 members of the banned Church of Almighty God were given jail terms, state media said Wednesday.
An associate professor of Suffolk University (Boston) Smirnov, Elie Wei published an article on February 10, 2013 describing his own experience of watching the performance of "Romantic Charm" and concluded that the Falun Gong had implanted political propaganda into the performances and these kind of...
A court has removed two children from their mother's care after she apparently joined a religious cult, the Sunday Times reported."[My wife] is of the view that she is a messenger from God," the father of the children, aged 10 and 12, said in papers before the North Gauteng High Court.
A former member of the notorious Children of God cult has been jailed after he held a policeman at gunpoint in Chirnside Park, prompting a massive manhunt. Joshua Cannane, 26, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne County Coourt to two charges including using a firearm to resist arrest after an incident on...
On Thursday, Dallas-based Turley Law Firm filed a civil lawsuit against the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc. (WBTS) – one of the legal corporations that presides over the Jehovah’s Witness faith in the U.S. – stemming from allegations of appointed members of the organization sexua...
My name is Shao Yongan, the head of Town Garden Village of Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province (now renamed as wulidian village). Today I want to tell you a real story about Chen Jinhai, one of my villagers who used to be obsessed with Falun Gong and finally got himself insane.
Taipei mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je recently held a press conference, claiming that the book The Slaughter, maneuvered by Falun Gong organizations behind the scenes, gave false interpretations of human organ deals in China, and that there was too much exaggeration in the book, with facts only account...
On the 28th of May, Almighty God disciples perpetrated a case of intentional homicide in Shandong Zhaoyuan. Six disciples asked for the phone numbers of people who were eating at a McDonald's. After being refused by one woman, they beat her to death in the restaurant. This was just one among a serie...
It was at the back of the restaurant – beyond the fry stand, the grease-slicked counter, the droves of gawking patrons — where the murder happened. The restaurant was a McDonald’s. It was a Wednesday evening. The murderers, who bludgeoned the woman to death with chairs and a mop, belonged to a cult ...
In the afternoon of June 3rd, 2011, my father and I went out looking for my mother in a rented car, who had not been home for half month. As he was delirious while driving, the car swerved off the road and rolled down along the steep slope. I was seated behind him, suddenly feeling dizzy, when woke ...