Jehovah's Witness who died giving birth understood risk of refusing blood,...
Éloïse Dupuis, 26, died of hemorrhage Oct. 12 while giving birth by C-sectionBy Stephen Smith, CBC News Oct 20, 2016 Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette says he has proof a 26-year-old Jehovah's...
View ArticleThe disturbing links between an anti-Semitic sect, an S&M orgy and a sinister...
By RICHARD PENDLEBURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL20 October 2016 When Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke died in Rome in October 2013 his funeral caused a riot. The former SS captain had been extradited from...
View ArticleThe Women Fighting Back Against the Christian Cult that Forbids Birth Control
Dylan BrethourViceOctober 22, 2016What is Quiverfull? For an outsider, they are a difficult group to pin down: there's no single denomination and no leader. Even the term "Quiverfull" is contentious,...
View ArticleFLDS leader likens food stamp donation to PTA bake sale in religious freedom...
OCTOBER 21, 2016BEN WINSLOWFox13SALT LAKE CITY — In a new court filing, a leader of the Fundamentalist LDS Church accused of food stamp fraud said prohibiting him from accepting donations to the...
View ArticleRemaining four defendants in Word of Life case plead guilty
October 21, 2016SEAN I. MILLSRome SentinelThe four final defendants in the Word of Life Church homicide pleaded guilty this morning to their roles in the murder of Lucas Leonard and the attack on his...
View ArticleMarijuana amendment faces biggest foe in GOP heavyweight, anti-drug crusader
Michael AuslenTimes/HeraldTallahassee BureauOctober 21, 2016TALLAHASSEE — To friends and political allies, Mel Sembler is a real estate developer with integrity.A former ambassador and shopping center...
View ArticleExorcist priest and soldier arrested for sex abuse in Italy
The Local21 October 2016A Sicilian priest and a soldier have been arrested for sexual abuse, which they carried out under the guise of spiritual 'healing', local media reported on Friday.The pair, both...
View ArticleCentral Investigator Arrests Homeopathy Council Chief For Taking Rs 20 Lakh...
Indo-Asian News ServiceOctober 22, 2016New Delhi: The CBI today arrested Central Council of Homeopathy President Ramjee Singh and another person on charges of accepting Rs 20 lakh in bribe to give a...
View ArticleWord of Life church pastor pleads guilty to manslaughter.
Utica Observer DispatchOct 21, 2016 By ALISSA SCOTTUTICA — After the final four Word of Life Christian Church defendants appeared in Oneida County Court on Friday, all those charged in the brutal...
View ArticleJehovah's Witnesses defend pushing for bloodless surgeries
Quebec coroner looking into death of 27-year-old Éloïse Dupuis, who refused blood transfusionBy Stephen Smith, CBC News Oct 22, 2016 Hospital visits by Jehovah's Witness elders, aimed at defending the...
View ArticleHermes Far Eastern Shining: Call for probe into cult-like secret society
Danielle GusmaroliThe Daily TelegraphOctober 23, 2016A CULT-like group nestled in the hills near Byron Bay which attracts members by “love bombing” them and sells a wide array of spiritual products...
View ArticleJehovah’s Witnesses fold in Port Dover
Monte SonnenbergSimcoe ReformerOctober 21, 2016The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on Blue Line Road in Port Dover is for sale. The remaining members of the congregation were dispersed to...
View ArticlePastor pleads guilty to manslaughter after church’s ‘counseling session’...
Travis M. AndrewsHamilton SpectatorOctober 24, 2016In the eyes of the World of Life Christian Church, 19-year-old Lucas Leonard and his 17-year-old brother Christopher had sinned. One of Lucas' sins...
View ArticleAfter new mom's death, Jehovah's Witnesses take heat
Linda HervieuxFoxOctober 24, 2016Jehovah's Witnesses are defending their ban on blood transfusions after the death of a new mom in Quebec this month. Family members of Eloise Dupuis, 27, say she was...
View ArticleVirginia pastor and wife indicted for $1.2 million fraud targeting congregation
JAY KORFFABC7OCTOBER 24, 2016ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ABC7) - Terry Wayne Millender, 52, the senior pastor at Victorious Life Church in Alexandria, along with his 56-year-old wife Brenda and 55-year-old...
View ArticleBikram Philadelphia rebrands as Hot Yoga Philadelphia
JENNIFER LOGUE MetroOCTOBER 24, 2016The name change separates the yoga from its controversial founder.Bikram Philadelphia was the first studio to bring the Bikram style of yoga to Philadelphia in 1999....
View ArticleConference to train Utah attorneys on polygamy and the law
Nate CarlisleOctober 24, 2016The Salt Lake TribuneUtah attorneys can learn how to litigate civil and criminal cases that involve polygamy at a training seminar next month.The seminar is 9 a.m. to 4...
View ArticleSheriffs Want Mormon Sect's Police Dismantled
JAMIE ROSS Courthouse News ServiceOctober 25, 2016PHOENIX (CN) — The marshal's office dominated by a fundamentalist Mormon sect in twin towns on the Arizona-Utah border routinely hides children...
View ArticleFrom sex to murder: Dark face of Indonesian cults
Callistasia Anggun Wijaya and Dandy KoswaraputraThe Jakarta PostJakarta | Tue, October 25, 2016 Some people seem hardly able to differentiate between spiritualism and shamanism, given the fact that...
View ArticleTrial begins for three people facing child removal charges
· by Trevor Crawley - Cranbrook Daily Townsman· Oct 24, 2016 · A trial for three people associated with the polygamous community of Bountiful facing alleged child-related charges...
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