Oklahoma woman files lawsuit against Narconon Arrowhead
Wichita EagleAssociated PressOctober 30, 2018 An Oklahoma woman has filed a lawsuit alleging a drug rehab center linked to the Church of Scientology breached its contract.Attorneys for Sefika Talic...
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What cults can teach us about the need for belongingKeating Reid, Opinion EditorMcGill TribuneOctober 30, 2018Along with serial killers and Cold War conspiracy theories, few topics reliably elicit as...
View ArticleCultNEWS101 Articles: 11/3-4/2018
MLM, LuLaRoe, Amway, Mary Kay, Universal Medicine, Australia, Legal, Scientology, Germany, NXIVM, Transcendental Meditation, Taipan, 40th Anniversary Jones Memorial EventsVOX: Multilevel marketing...
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Psychic Healer Threatened To Kill Clients
SamConspiracy TalkNovember 2, 2018A woman advertising her services as a ‘psychic healer’ has been threatening to kill her clients and forcing them to hand over large amounts of cash. The psychic also...
View ArticleConsumers need protecting from UM: Health experts
JASMINE BURKEThe Northern Star November 1, 2018IN THE wake of the defamation case involving Lismore-based Universal Medicine, members of Friends Of Science In Medicine said the organisation was...
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Universal Medicine follower's daughter hopes jury verdict stops 'dangerous...
Josh RobertsonABCNovember 4, 2018VIDEO: Judith McIntyre being interviewed by Universal Medicine (ABC News)A neuroscientist who tried in vain to claw back part of her mother's dying gift of $1.4 million...
View ArticlePotential draftees turning to Jehovah's Witnesses
Kim Hyun-binThe Korea TimesNovember 6, 2018The Supreme Court's ruling on conscientious objection to military service last week is bringing an "unexpected" side effect ― a growing interest in the...
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Disgraced self-help guru out of prison and promoting new book
MARIA ARCEGA-DUNNFox5October 30, 2018VIDEOSAN DIEGO -- He was once known as one of the country’s top self-help experts, but after spending almost two years in prison for the deaths of three people...
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What It's Like to Grow Up in a Cult
In her new book, To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence, Lisa Kohn describes her journey into and out of the infamous Unification Church.Megan DiTrolioMarie Claire.October 31,...
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Hollywood star Tom Cruise introduced James Packer to Scientology — then they...
IT WAS the movie star Tom Cruise who introduced James Packer to Scientology. What happened after that ruined their close friendship.Shannon Molloynews.com.auOctober 24, 2018WHEN his business venture...
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U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism Now They...
For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a rulent movement has grown and metastasized.JANET...
View ArticleCult founder’s ashes still being held 4 months after execution
Naoki Urano and Yukiko SakamotoTHE ASAHI SHIMBUNNovember 7, 2018A family squabble over the remains of Aum Shinrikyo founder Chizuo Matsumoto have kept them and his belongings in a prison for four...
View ArticleJehovah's Witness church elder jailed for sexually abusing girl, 12, in the...
Brecon and Radnor Reporter Brecon & Radnor Express November 7, 2018A Jehovah’s Witness church elder was jailed for five years today for sexually assaulting a “terrified” schoolgirl while preaching...
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Tvind Alert
"Tvind Alert is a journalistic inquiry into a political and non-religious [group] called the Tvind Teachers Group."" ... A dossier on the Tvind Teachers Group. Are Humana People-to-People, Planet Aid,...
View ArticleSupreme Being to be arrested, federal judge in KCK orders
TONY RIZZOKC StarNovember 05, 2018A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for the leader of a religious group ordered to pay $8 million to a human trafficking victim.Royall Jenkins and his group,...
View ArticleBen Foster on Growing Up in a Cult and Finding Happiness: ‘I Feel Really Alive’
The ‘Leave No Trace’ star on how living in the woods, becoming a father, and finally embracing his ‘strange’ upbringing in a Transcendental Meditation community changed his life.Kevin FallonNovember 8,...
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RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN A POSTMODERNAL CONTEXT
[Google Translate]To attempt the adventure of an encyclopedic review of religions - and of the spiritual ways that, although not religious, fall into a phenomenology of contemporary combinations of the...
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Groomed for rape: sexual abuse by pastors back in spotlight
Lee Suh-yoonThe Korea TimesNovember 9, 2018Recent allegations that a 35-year-old pastor sexually abused at least 26 teenage girls in his youth ministry group have refueled the debate over the...
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Germany proposes to compensate victims of Chilean cult led by ex-Nazi
Today World November 9, 2018SANTIAGO/BERLIN - German lawmakers have proposed that former members of a Chilean cult established by an ex-Nazi in the 1960s be offered compensation by the German...
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Humanists UK expresses alarm that inspections in some private schools are not...
Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda SpielmanHumanists UKNovember 9th, 2018Humanists UK has expressed concern that the education regulator still lacks the relevant powers to properly monitor inspections in...
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