A 52-year-old womanwho allegedly pretended to be the embodiment of a Indian goddess was handed several extra charges last week for offences such as forcing her "devotees" to eat human faeces and pulling out their teeth.
Jung Myung-seok, the 77-year-old leader of the controversial religious group Christian Gospel Mission (CGM), isaccused of sexually assaultinga Hong Kong woman and an Australian woman by “quasi-rape” from 2018 to 2021.
I also fully realized the evil nature of the “Almighty God” cult from the bottom of my heart. And I understood that there was no such thing as “eternity of life” in the world
Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda on Thursday admitted attending four meetings related to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church.
After breaking away from “Falun Gong”, Wang Gang started to live a positive life.
Several followers of a social media influencer who calls himself a "god" and leads an abstract spirituality group online have been accused of two separate murders in Alabama.
Japanese politicians say they're cutting ties with the controversial former Unification Church after its influence came to light with the July murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
Daniella Mestyanek Young’s powerfully immersive and exceptionally honest debut memoir Uncultured opens with a scene of Young standing in line to get spanked by Uncle Zephaniah.
In Do As I Say, Steel (creator of the podcast Let’s Talk About Sects) explores how cults usually exhibit some of the following attributes: they have unique in-group language, they require intense work schedules of members, their leaders will often deliver endless sermons, and they will restrict acce...
2022 International Symposium on Cults, Heresies and Emerging Religions In Paris
With her selfishness, indifference and ruthlessness, she ruined her formerly happy family, got her grief-stricken husband died of cancer, and left her mentally handicapped son to have no one to rely on, all of which were the exact opposite of her original intention to practice “Falun Gong” in order ...
Kwak Chung-hwan, who was Moon's deputy until the late 2000s, said the Unification Church had treated its followers in Japan like "an economic army" to raise donations and he said the organization should apologise for the excesses of its leadership in the country.
Members of a powerful polygamous group in Utah claim they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood “pure,” were raped by their husbands and had to perform child labor, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
During his four years of activities in the group, initially presented to him as “international exchange club,” Ishikawa had joined the Unification Church and deceived many people in door-to-door sales.
Melbourne woman Olivia was 27 when she went on a church-funded trip. What she says happens, in a place called ‘The Cave’ left her ‘in shock’.