Jack Chick, fundamentalist Christian cartoonist, dies at 92
Los Angeles TimesAssociated PressOctober 24, 2016Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality and the beliefs of...
View ArticleIn a First, a Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to $2.1 Million Child Sex Abuse Settlement
THE FORWARDLarry Cohler-EssesOctober 24, 2016An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior...
View ArticlePastor pleads guilty to manslaughter, assault after church's 'counseling...
Washington PostBy Travis M. Andrews October 24, 2016In the eyes of the Word of Life Christian Church, 19-year-old Lucas Leonard and his 17-year-old brother Christopher had sinned. One of Lucas’s sins...
View ArticleSpecial team may probe ‘diversion’ of funds from Osho foundation
Kanchan ChaudhariHindustan TimesOctober 26, 2016A special team is likely to be formed to probe the allegation pertaining siphoning of funds from Osho Foundation to private accounts of a few individuals...
View ArticleExpert Wants Mormon Sect's Police Dissolved
By JAMIE ROSSCourthouse News ServiceOctober 26, 2016 PHOENIX (CN) — Disbanding a police department along the Arizona-Utah border may further alienate members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect there,...
View ArticleJehovah's Witnesses, other sects flock to Hudson Valley town
Adrienne Sanderslohud.comOctober 26, 2016SHAWANGUNK - This Ulster County town, with a ridge of quartz mountains rising 2,000 feet, is a mecca for rock climbers. In recent years, religious groups have...
View ArticleAgape Ministries's worth grows to more than $9 million while tax debt...
Exclusive - Chief Court Reporter Sean Fewster, The AdvertiserOctober 26, 2016 THE Agape doomsday cult’s pool of hidden assets has increased by $2.5 million to more than $9 million while its debt to...
View ArticleQuebec coroner investigating death of another Jehovah's Witness after childbirth
Mirlande Cadet, 46, died of suspected hemorrhage day after giving birth by C-sectionBy Stephen Smith, CBC News Oct 26, 2016 A Quebec coroner is investigating the death of a 46-year-old Jehovah's...
View ArticleThe president, her close friend and South Korean secrets
South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s approval rating has tumbled to a record low amid a high profile influence-peddling scandal implicating her long-time confidant Choi Soon-silAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE...
View ArticleGreeting the guru
By Becca Costello beccac@newsreview.comJuly 19, 2007Everyone wore white: the women on the escalator in loose-fitting pants and shawls, the men behind me in pressed shirts, and the volunteers holding...
View ArticleWatchdog investigates British charity's alleged cult connections
EXCLUSIVE: British charity is allegedly linked to cult whose leaders are wanted by Interpol.Tom PorterIBTOctober 27, 2016 Britain's charity watchdog is investigating whether a second-hand clothing...
View ArticlePseudo-Christian shamanistic cult alleged to have influence over President Park
SER MYO-JAKorea Joongang DailyOctober 28, 2016Opposition politicians have raised suspicion that a cult was behind President Park Geun-hye’s oddly intimate relationship with her longtime friend Choi...
View ArticleUnderstanding religious cults can be complicated
Ron Burks, Ph.D.TMH bloggerJuly 31, 2015The word “cult” conjures images that range from religious regimentation and extremism to dancers around open fires and sacrificing chickens in the backyard. The...
View ArticleVeteran Sports Journalist Adversely Confronted by ‘Hot Yoga’ Guru Bikram...
SUNITA SOHRABJIIndia-WestOctober 27, 2016Veteran sports journalist Andrea Kremer was antagonistically confronted by ‘hot yoga’ pioneer Bikram Choudhury while she interviewed him for a segment for HBO’s...
View ArticleRussian Supreme Court to review Aum Shinrikyo ban
October 27, 2016TASSThe court will check the legitimacy of the ban on the Japanese cult.Russia's Supreme Court is going to check the legitimacy of a ban on international organization Aum Shinrikyo in...
View ArticleAfter 50 years, Hare Krishna believers are no longer berobed white hippies...
Washington PostBy Julie Zauzmer October 27, 2016 MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — The Ramkumar family piled into their van early Saturday morning and drove five hours west from their home in the Washington suburbs...
View ArticleA Suicide Cult's Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website
MotherboardWritten by KALEIGH ROGERSSTAFF WRITEROctober 27, 2016 Marshall Applewhite, the founder of Heaven’s Gate, in a video warning people about Earth's imminent "recycling." Image: YouTubeThe mass...
View ArticleCharles Manson's right-hand man 'Tex' Watson denied parole
Watson helped plan and carry out the murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969 CBC The Associated PressOct 27, 2016 California parole officials recommended Thursday that Charles...
View ArticleWacky Church Under Fire Over 'Miracle Cure' for Autism
· ABC News· By CINDY GALLI· RANDY KREIDER· BRIAN ROSS Oct 26, 2016· A supposed “miracle cure” for autism is really a kind of industrial bleach, federal prosecutors...
View ArticleFear and loathing on the streets: the Soldiers of Odin and the rise of...
Far right groups are gaining a global foothold because they echo mainstream discourse which has shrunk the political horizon to issues of border paranoia, terror, and securityThe GuardianJason...
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