• Inquest into police shooting at Vancouver Canadian Tire begins
    2022-11-03

    A BC Corners Service inquest convened in Burnaby Oct. 31 into a police shooting death of a man in Vancouver.

  • Old couple’s new life
    2022-11-03

    When mentioning her history of believing in “the Association of Disciples” cult, Wang Hua gave a deep sigh. The smile on her face immediately disappeared, her eyes turned red, and she was on the verge of tears.

  • Special investigation: Inside the cult-like doomsday church
    2022-11-02

    But what ex-members say happened inside the walls of the Geelong Revival Centre (GRC) is shocking. From allegations of violence against children, to claims of brainwashing, end-of-world "doomsday" preaching and the shunning of medicine.

  • Second generation of Unification Church followers begin to speak out
    2022-10-30

    Growing up constrained by the church’s doctrine and expected to act as role models for believers, some children suffer when trying to seek their own religious freedom. There are also cases in which children are subjected to poverty and neglect, as their parents are preoccupied with donation activiti...

  • Pregnant woman charged with 13 others over the religious cult death of a diabetic girl, 8, is refusing all medical attention in jail despite the impen
    2022-10-29

    She was charged with the murder ofElizabeth Struhs last January in Toowoomba after she, along with 13 others, allegedly deprived the child of her insulin.

  • Woman abandons family and goes abroad to South Korea
    2022-10-27

    Every time I thought of her, I would dissolve into tears. I want to know whether Mom is safe and sound, whether she eats well and dress warmly, whether she is missing us……

  • The Silent Witnesses: Jehovah’s Witnesses covered up child sexual abuse in Washington state for decades, lawsuit alleges
    2022-10-25

    They were in the Bible study room when Deryk Terril, a shy 11-year-old with shaggy hair in 1976, found the courage to finally say something: An elder at a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation in Spokane had been molesting him for years, Terril, now 57, recounts in a lawsuit filed in August.

  • California governor blocks parole of Charles Manson cult follower
    2022-10-25

    California’s governor has blocked the parole of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel — the longest-serving woman prisoner in the United States — more than 50 years after she scrawled “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.

  • 3 held for killing women in Kerala for ‘black magic rituals’
    2022-10-25

    Kerala Police on Tuesday arrested three persons, including one woman, suspected for luring and killing women allegedly as human sacrifices in black magic rituals, Kochi City Police Commissioner CH Nagaraju said.

  • Kishida: Dissolution of religious groups can be based on Civil Code violations
    2022-10-25

    Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that illegal acts under the Civil Code can be the basis for a court order to dissolve a religious corporation, a comment that differs from the conventional interpretation of the Religious Corporations Law.

  • Kishida instructs legislation to help ex-Unification Church victims
    2022-10-21

    Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says he will instruct the government to submit bills aimed at providing relief to the victims of the shady practices of the former Unification Church, possibly during the current session of the Diet.

  • Kishida speeds up bills to help Unification Church victims
    2022-10-21

    Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to quickly push legislation to help victims of the Unification Church’s dubious sales and donation practices.

  • How These 5 Cults Manipulated Their Followers
    2022-10-20

    Most cults have charismatic and charming leaders who are seen as godlike by the cult's members. Leaders may use flattery and seduction in the beginning to lure members in, but later turn to mistreatment or abuse — either sexual, physical or mental — to maintain control.

  • Japan followers of Unification Church breaking ties with group
    2022-10-17

    A number of followers are breaking ties with the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, amid the lingering issue of massive donations made to the group.

  • Mom breaks away from “Almighty God” cult and gets home
    2022-10-13

    At the dinner party, our mother held tightly the hands of anti-cult volunteers in gratitude, saying that she would neither believe in “Almighty God” nor participate in any cult activities ever again.