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The trap of “enthusiasm”
2022-08-08I was taken to the police station and told that what I participated was not a Christian activity but the one organized by a cult called “Mentuhui” in the name of Christianity.
I was taken to the police station and told that what I participated was not a Christian activity but the one organized by a cult called “Mentuhui” in the name of Christianity.
·Many children born into the church grappled with its strict expectations.·Ex-members talked to Insider about their experiences growing up in — and leaving — the controversial church.
A telegram sent by Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura to a mass gathering of the religious group Family Federation for World Peace and Unification was rewritten to appear to praise the organization's leader Hak Ja Han Moon, who was attending the function, the governor's camp has stated in a protest to the rel...
Being obsessed with “Falun Gong”, they believed in the fallacies of “curing diseases by eliminating karma” boasted by Li Hongzhi, and refused any medical treatment for their son’s pneumonia. As a result, their young son lost his life
More political figures are coming forward to disclose they had dealings with theUnification Church or affiliated groups in light of the organization’ssudden high profilefollowing the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara earlier this month.
The man accused of killing Shinzo Abe said his mother’s huge donations to the church bankrupted his family. Many others in Japan have similar stories.
The half-century relationship between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, commonly known as the Unification Church, is coming to light following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
It’s not just doomsday bunkers and goat’s blood. Cults are all around the world, including in Australia. What are the red flags and how do cult leaders operate?
TOKYO The Unification Church's links to Japanese lawmakers has emerged as a major political issue ahead of an extraordinary parliamentary session in the fall, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with opposition parties moving to probe such ties including within their own...
For decades, Japanese followers have engaged in the practice of selling “spiritual goods” such as expensive ginseng tea or miniature stone pagodas produced by church-affiliated enterprises in Korea.
Due to my lack of study of national laws, regulations and the knowledge of identifying cults, I could not tell the difference between cult activities and normal religious rituals. As the result, I was tricked by the words of cult members and unwittingly became their prey.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court unanimously ruled that even though Ashford Archer didn’t physically mistreat 8-year-old Hannah Marshall or 10-year-old Makayla Roberts, his 2019 conviction for child abuse resulting in death is supported by sufficient evidence and should stand.
Setting up by relatives, I got married and moved from a rural area in Northern Anhui Province to Baohe District, Hefei City. I was once so obsessed with Almighty God that I run away from home for 3 years to do my part for “God”. I didn’t realize how gullible I was until I came to my senses later.
Experts say the motivations of Mr Abe's killer reveal long-held associations between Japan's conservative politicians anda series of new, small and sometimes fringe religious groups, the power those churches hold and how useful they are at garnering support and winningelections.
Now, after the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told police that he blamed a religious group for his mother’s bankruptcy, and the Unification Church confirmed that the shooter’s mother was a member of its Japanese branch, the role of the church, long controversial in t...