Oxford Capacity Analysis: the personality quiz that promises to make you happy
BYYO ZUSHINew StatesmanFebruary 17, 2017I took the Scientologists' favourite personality quiz, so you don't have to. “You are a unique individual with your own personality traits,” the leaflet for the...
View ArticlePhoto archive includes shots of 1944 polygamy trial, 1953 Short Creek raid
July 26, 1953, during the state of Arizona's raid on the Short Creek polygamous community.Nate CarlisleSalt Lake TribuneFebruary 17, 2017You may have read the story earlier this week about the trove of...
View ArticleLDS doctrine leaves potential for 'eternal polygamy'
Brian PasseySt. George Daily SpectrumFebruary 16, 2017Will there be polygamy in heaven?The official doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today still teaches that the principle of...
View Article'If I'm such a liar, why haven't they sued my ass?'
Debbie Schippnews.com.au@debbieschippFEBRUARY 17, 2017SCIENTOLOGY says she’s a bitter ex-member, lying about a religion that no longer wanted her; who hangs with “deadbeats, admitted liars,...
View ArticleAfter Mysterious Ritual Killings, Two Zambians Burned Alive in Witch Hunt
Foreign PolicyBY SIOBHÁN O'GRADYAPRIL 20, 2016 Since March, the mutilated corpses of at least six Zambians have been found in and around the capital of Lusaka, their ears, hearts, and genitals missing...
View ArticleThe Temple of the Jedi Order - Is it a religious charity? Depends on where...
Miller Thomson LLPTroy McEachrenLexologyFebruary 2, 2017While many of us are familiar with the term “Jedi” from the much loved Star Wars films, we are less familiar with the nontheistic religious...
View ArticleThe Counter Extremism Project (CEP)
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, international policy organization formed to combat the growing threat from extremist...
View ArticleWhat is on the Moon?
The purpose of the Amrine groupI know a man who was blessed by SMM to women who is now in the Amrine group. The purpose of the Amrine group is to “save” the True family. They have made it their goal in...
View ArticleRIDC - Research Institute on Destructive Cults
Articles & papers by Masoud BanisadrEnglish/Farsihttp://www.ridc.info/
View ArticleTHE CONTINUING GROWTH OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM, AND HOW TO COUNTER IT
CREST Security Review (Issue 2, pp. 26-27)LINDA WOODHEADLANCASTER UNIVERSITYWhile many people have observed that religion is in decline in some parts of the world, less have noticed that the nature of...
View ArticleOur reporter infiltrated the “Happy Science” religion…accidentally, when in...
Master Blasterrocketnews24.comFebruary 17. 2017Serendipity has given RocketNews24 an inside look at the controversial religion currently making headlines: Happy Science.Although founded in 1986, the...
View ArticleCCMO marshal denies claims of unlawful conduct
Kevin Jenkins , kevin@thespectrum.comThe SpectrumFebruary 18, 2017The attorneys representing Hildale and Colorado City in a lawsuit that seeks to disband the marshals policing Southern Utah’s stateline...
View ArticleKansas crowd applauds Cardinal Burke's stump speech
Cardinal Raymond Burke, Feb. 10 at St. James Academy in Lenexa, Kan. (NCR photo/George Goss)Dennis CodayNational Catholic ReporterFebruary 17, 2017ANALYSIS LENEXA, KAN. It was a stump speech. A speech...
View ArticleSheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to 1993 World Trade Center attack, has died
February 18, 2017 FoxNews.comReuters: Terrorist behind 1993 WTC bombing dies in prison Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind firebrand Islamist cleric behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has...
View ArticleOpus Dei’s New Head: ‘A First-Class Mind’
Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz BrañaEdward PentinNational Catholic RegisterFebruary 16, 2017Opus Dei’s New Head: ‘A First-Class Mind’Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz Braña is a founding professor of Rome’s Santa Croce...
View ArticleAN OPUS DEI ANGLE
Buenos Aires HeraldFebruary 17, 2017Your viewThere’s one important aspect I’d like to point out regarding your excellent editorial “Wrongfooting rights” and article on page 8 referred to President...
View ArticleArab feminists fear Israel’s anti-polygamy plan is opening volley in a war of...
Bedouins from the town of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev, southern Israel, seen in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 20, 2013. While condemning polygamy, some activists claim justice minister’s...
View ArticleSupreme Court directs Maharashtra government to appoint CEO of Shree Sai Baba...
The Supreme Court has directed the Maharashtra government to appoint an IAS officer as the chief executive officer of Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust ahead of its centenary year celebrations at...
View ArticleDeconstructing Pagan religions
DEBORAH GREYDNAFebruary 18, 2017Considered a derogatory term until the early 20th century, many aspects of paganism shared similarities with most traditional Indian religions that were later brought...
View ArticlePolygamy: The Next Frontier
ROD DREHERThe American ConservativeFebruary 18, 2017 Here’s the jacket copy for a forthcoming book from the University Press of New England: Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier of Family...
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