Disgraced Jewish Spiritual Guru Marc Gafni Set to Teach at Tantric Sex School
Gafni has had many incarnations over the course of his career, including as an emerging leader in New York Orthodox circles and a celebrated, then derided, spiritual leader in the Jewish Renewal...
View ArticleTvind Teachers Group: What is the shadowy 'cult' linked to charity that...
Former members claim organisation robbed them of earnings, inheritances and savings. International Business Times UKBy Tom PorterAugust 2, 2016 Comprising enterprises in China, Africa, Europe and Latin...
View ArticleMozambique: BBC Fingers ADPP for Links to 'Cult-like Group' Led by People...
August 2, 2016Allafrica.comADPP is a Danish-origin NGO which has become a dominant player in the second hand clothes trade in Mozambique and has been heavily involved in teacher training in Mozambique....
View ArticleWhat can special-purpose Russian troops learn from Siberian Old Believers?
Russia Beyond The Headlines August 1, 2016 NIKOLAI SHEVCHENKO, RBTH The Russian military have conducted a 60-mile experimental training exercise through mountainous taiga in Siberia with Old Believers...
View ArticleGroup Says Movement a Cult
Phil McCombsWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, July 2, 1987; Page C03n the eve of a "yogic flying" demonstration by followers of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi set for the Rayburn Building of...
View ArticlePastor Lee Dong-hyun has admitted sexually molesting a female follower for...
Pastor Lee Dong-hyun has admitted sexually molesting a female follower for years.Ko Dong-hwanThe Korean TimesAugust 4, 2016Pastor Lee Dong-hyun, head of popular Christian teenage evangelical community...
View ArticlePentecostal church body blasts bogus pastors
3 AUGUST 2016New Era (Windhoek) NamibiaBy Eveline De Klerk Swakopmund — The Association of Charismatic and Pentecostal Churches of Namibia (ACPCN) has slammed seemingly bogus, money-making pastors and...
View ArticleHe’s 77, frail and lives in Pennsylvania. Turkey says he’s a coup mastermind.
Washington PostBy Abigail Hauslohner, Karen DeYoung and Valerie StraussAugust 3, 2016 SAYLORSBURG, Pa. — It was a weekday night in the Poconos, quiet but for the sound of cicadas in the wooded hills...
View ArticleWhose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping
WPSUBy EDITOR AUGUST 3, 2016In February of 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of the wealthy newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army,...
View ArticleHear why Winston Blackmore, who has married 27 women, doesn't want polygamy...
Salt Lake TribuneNate CarlisleAug 05 2016 Winston Blackmore's statements on polygamy in Canada drew a lot of attention this week.I wrote a blog post that published Monday about how Blackmore does not...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen's Race to the Top Is Over
The Turkish cleric's decades-long plan to use schools to acquire political power and cultural influence has ended in shambles.· · Foreign Policy Magazine· BY SELIM KORU, HUSEYIN RASIT...
View ArticleA new documentary looks at the role of women in the Gloriavale community
AUGUST 6, 2016NEWS.com.au THERE is a world that is so secret, so foreign, and yet so close to us.While they live modestly and innocently, the Gloriavale community on the West Coast of New Zealand’s...
View ArticleFOX25 Investigates: Video Prompts Child Labor Investigation
Eric RasmussenFox25Aug 4, 2016http://www.fox25boston.com/news/fox25-investigates-kids-working-on-local-construction-site/417099843PLYMOUTH, Mass. —Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health...
View ArticleOf cults, religions and individuals
MUSTAFA AKYOLakyol@mustafaakyol.orgHurriyet DailynewsAugust 6, 2016The Turkey of today, since the failed coup attempt of July 15, is focused on one single group: The Islamic community (“cemaat”) led by...
View ArticleSTUDENTS DISPLAY SPORTING SPIRIT
The HinduJuly 30, 2016 July 30 marked the fifth annual Sports Day of Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Polachery. Events including the 4 x 100 meters relay race, gymnastics, silambam and karate., were...
View ArticleHow Cyclist Juliana Buhring Learned to Keep Going After Surviving a Cult and...
HELEN RUMBELOWGlamourMAY 13, 2016The mountains of Praiano, Italy, tumble spectacularly into the Mediterranean Sea. If you look closely on any given day, you might see a tall tattooed woman jogging the...
View ArticleCall for Papers: ICSA Annual Conference
Theme: Cultic Dynamics and Radicalization Bordeaux, France June 29 — July 1, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 31, 2016. The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is conducting its 2017...
View ArticleSanteria Priestess Who Sacrificed Chickens Found Guilty of Animal Cruelty
Aug 4, 2016NBC4 WashingtonA Loudoun County woman has been found guilty of animal cruelty after she sacrificed roosters as a Santeria religious practice. Mercy Carrion, a Santeria priestess, said in...
View ArticleMark Driscoll Launches The Trinity Church
August 7, 2016Warren ThrockmortonPathosOur roving reporter Deana Holmes tells me that 162 cars were in the parking lot for today’s launch of The Trinity Church in Scottsdale AZ (170 for the second...
View ArticleThe Bachelor's Keira Maguire distances herself from paedophile father and...
· AUGUST 8 2016 · · The Sydney Morning HeraldAmy CroffeyThe Bachelor star Keira Maguire grew up in a "polygamist cult" headed up by her late father, Alistah Laishkochav, a convicted...
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