Social worker accused of hiding religious sect abuse resigns
Boston HeraldAssociated PressMarch 18, 2017CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A veteran social worker accused of coaching congregants and their children on what to say during a 2015 child abuse investigation of her...
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'She's headed home': Kayla Reid may be on her way back to Corner Brook
Mother Tammy Reid says Natureboy working with family to return her daughter to NewfoundlandCBC News March 21, 2017 The Corner Brook woman who's been in Costa Rica with what her family calls a "cult"...
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Who is Natureboy? 'Cult' leader says Kayla Reid can leave at any time
Eligio Bishop, left, is an admitted "cult" leader in Costa Rica. Kayla Reid, right, has left Newfoundland to join him. (CBC (left), Eligio Bishop/Facebook (right))Eligio Bishop gives interview from...
View ArticleInfo-Cult helps families understand groups, such as one Kayla Reid immersed in
Diane CrockerThe Western StarMarch 20, 2017Dropping the cliché, “You’re in a cult,” is one of the key things Michael Kropveld encourages families to do when they seek help.Kropveld is the executive...
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Pope Francis Tells Priests to Have Exorcists on Call
Pope FrancisDEVIL INSIDEDevil make you do it? Pope Francis says call an Exorcist.BARBIE LATZA NADEAUDaily BeastMarch 19, 2017ROME—Sometimes it’s hard to know just where the Catholic Church stands when...
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Nine in 10 people would electrocute others if ordered, rerun of infamous...
The Milgram Experiment being conducted in the 1960sSarah Knapton, science editor Telegraph ScienceMarch 14, 2017A notorious experiment in the 1960s to find out if ordinary people were prepared to...
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Kayla Reid says she's 'doing the right thing' by leaving Costa Rica
Diane CrockerThe Western StarMarch 21, 2017Kayla Reid feels she is helping Eligio (Natureboy) Bishop by leaving Costa Rica.“I’m doing the right thing as of right now,” Reid told The Western Star on...
View ArticleWhy the airline 'electronics ban' may not be discrimination
Patrick ReillyChristian Science MonitorMARCH 21, 2017The United States and British governments'"electronics ban" prompted quick comparisons to the Trump administration’s much-criticized bans on travel...
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Two teenagers killed in Bayelsa cult clash
Austin EbipadeNigerian TribuneMarch 21, 2017The fight for supremacy between two rival cult groups claimed the lives of two teenagers in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on Saturday night.The clash,...
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Land trust board files lawsuit seeking to take control of polygamous sect’s...
The LSJ meetinghouse in Colorado City, the building ex-members say houses the FLDS church's surveillance camera operation.NATE CARLISLEThe Salt Lake TribuneMarch 21 2017The land trust that owns much of...
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Hunting for monsters, truth
Nearly 1,000 feet long, Flinderation Tunnel awaits anyone brave enough to enterMegan ConstableDayton City PaperMarch 21, 2017The unexplainable was a “lifelong passion” for Tony Urban, who started out...
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RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witness activity largely halted
Victoria ArnoldForum 18March 21, 2017Russia has summarily suspended most Jehovah's Witness activities. UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai told Forum 18: "The Russian government is claiming that the...
View ArticleI grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left
Megan Phelps-RoperTEDTalksMarch 6, 2017What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing ... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most...
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The curious case of a hidden abbot and a besieged temple
Police and supporters of the temple have been engaged in a lengthy stand-off in the outskirts of BangkokJonathan Head BBC News, BangkokMarch 22, 2017Over the past month what is often cited as the...
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Man charged with child abuse is son of black supremacist cult leader serving...
Rameses Richardson, 19, appears in court in Jersey City today, March 17, 2017, on charges he burned and beat a 5-year-old boy in his care.Michaelangelo ConteThe Jersey Journal March 22, 2017 JERSEY...
View ArticleScientology: What exactly is it?
Dan Gilgoff and Tricia EscobedoCNNMarch 22, 2017Editor`s Note: Religious scholar Reza Aslan explores Scientology on the next episode of "Believer,"Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. This article first...
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The Story Behind Lavish Chinese Dance Shen Yun
KEN PICARDSeven DaysMARCH 22, 2017Have you heard that Shen Yun, the internationally acclaimed Chinese dance extravaganza, will perform two shows this weekend at Burlington's Flynn Center for the...
View ArticleEditorial: Clearwater officials should not surrender to Church of Scientology
Tampa Bay TimeMarch 23, 2017 Clearwater City Council members meekly capitulated last week to Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, answering his summons to private meetings at Scientology's...
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What the Heaven's Gate suicides say about American culture
The former leader of Heaven’s Gate, Marshall ApplewhiteBen Zeller,Associate Professor of Religion, Lake Forest CollegeThe Conversation March 24, 2017Disclosure statementBen Zeller does not work for,...
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When the Rajneeshee sex cult turned Fremantle orange
Brendan FosterWAtodayMARCH 24 2017 Former Rajneeshee member Avi says being part of the religious movement in Fremantle in the early 1980s was like going to a theme park every day but with bucket loads...
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