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Scientologists threaten to sue cult victim group
2024-06-19THE Church of Scientology has threatened to sue and claim punitive damages against a volunteer organisation that helps the victims of cults and their families.
THE Church of Scientology has threatened to sue and claim punitive damages against a volunteer organisation that helps the victims of cults and their families.
Seven members of a supposed Durham-based cult known as the "Black Hebrews" have been indicted on charges involving the deaths of 5-year-old Jadon Tyrell James Higganbothan and 29-year-old Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy.
Religious cults that make headlines for homicide are almost always well beyond the storefront stage - there is no better example than Jim Jones and his People's Temple in Guyana 33 years ago. Durham is awash in an exception.
On February 6, a large-scale parade composed of 10 floats and over 70 groups from businesses, communities and governmental departments was held at Chinatown in New York to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival, which has attracted nearly 100,000 citizens.
Fang Zhouzi, a campaigner against cult and academic fraud, was attacked by two men near his residence in Beijing on August 29, 2010. Then the Epoch Times gloated and published a piece of news titled “the fraud fighter got ambushed, which was suspected to be feigned case”.
At the Big Buddha statue on Lantau Island, meditation groups have been gathering regularly looking for the sign that will anoint their new spiritual leader, Belinda Peng, as the True Master and Lord of Buddhas. It will be a manifestation, they believe, to "shock and shake the universe."
What the promotions don't tell you is Shen Yun is widely regarded as a propaganda arm of the conservative Chinese religious sect Falun Gong, which has been banned since 1999 by the government of China. The Shen Yun show, by many reviewers' accounts, mixes heavy-handed political theater.
I have to agree with one part of the embassy’s statement. Falun Gong is political. It aims to modify the policy of a government and it applies concerted pressure in order to bring about that change. And in that sense one can, just about, understand the paranoia of China’s dictators.
More than a decade after China cracked down on Falun Gong, an once-thriving cult in the country, a new wave of awareness campaigns has been launched to educate people from cults and remind them to stay away.
According to an inside reporter, in March this year, the family of Ye Hao, Falun Gong backbone follower, heard from a channel that a patient with family name of Li was hospitalized in New York hospital, the nursing personnel were Li Hongzhi’s closest people such as his relatives and driver.
About 100 members of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association paraded down the streets in lime-green T-shirts, shouting "Eliminate Falun Gong" and "Celebrate Mid-autumn, Welcome National Day".
Falun Gong practitioner, who damaged an anti-Falun Gong banner hanging outside a metro station in Hong Kong, was found guilty of two counts of criminal damage and one of obstructing public officers in performing their duties. The woman, whose surname is Lo, was fined HK$4,500 by a local magistrate. ...
A 22-year-old man, Isaac Adam, who resides at Zone 5, Dutse Alhaji, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Senior Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, after he was discovered on August 25, as a member of a secret cult who had also initiated several teenagers into the occult group.
When I was in prison, I was penitent for killing my mother. But if it were not for Disciples Sect, my mother wouldn't lose her mind and hit me to eliminate devil, and I wouldn't kill my mother accidentally. It was Disciples Sect that broken up my family and made me move towards abyss.
Chinese asylum seekers moored in Darwin and intent on continuing to New Zealand without following proper process need to be told don't bother, ACT Leader John Banks says. Latest reports suggest the Chinese may now seek asylum in Australia rather than New Zealand.
I'm being very cautious about commenting on the 10 Chinese Falun Gong asylum-seekers who were the cause of much transtasman consternation this week. The last time I criticised the Falun Gong - for wanting to join the Santa Parade - there was a protest outside the ZB building that went on for weeks.