Ex-child bride seeks to collect millions from Utah polygamist leader
BEN WINSLOWFox 13 Now MAY 15, 2017SALT LAKE CITY -- A former child bride stands to collect millions in her lawsuit against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.At a court hearing Monday, Elissa Wall's...
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Sharp rise in home-schooling for Montreal Hasidic children
English Montreal School Board will begin administering exams as part of agreement with parentsCBC News May 12, 2017 The number of Hasidic children in Montreal being educated at home has jumped...
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Experts to assist cops frame cult guru
Shifu SunkritiSAURABH M JOSHITHE ASIAN AGEMay 13, 2017The experts’ analysis may help the police in building a concrete case against Kulkarni.Mumbai: Mumbai police will take the help of handwriting...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: How do secular societies strike a balance between religious...
DAPHNE BRAMHAMMontreal gazetteMay 7, 2017Where religious freedom begins and ends is increasingly bedevilling secular, pluralistic societies, including ours.Despite constitutions and charters of rights,...
View ArticleGovernment officials warned colleagues the charity was a cult - to no avail
Matt SmithRevealMay 11, 2017Workers at the U.S. Embassy in Malawi sought to raise the alarm about an organization seeking U.S.-government funds that it labeled a cult. But a foreign aid official...
View ArticleScientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit in DTES concerns mental health...
Exhibit titled Psychiatry: Industry of Death tries to discredit science behind mental illnessJon HernandezCBC News May 10, 2017Vancouver's Corin Heinrichs was walking home from work when she saw a...
View ArticleTHE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SUN MYUNG MOON AND THE UNIFICATION MOVEMENTS IN...
Organized By: The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism (Laïcité) in partnership with Faculty of Comparative Study of Religion and Humanism (FVG) CESNUR CLIMAS (Bordeaux)THE LIFE AND LEGACY...
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'If You Leave, You'll Die'
A young American girl thought she was visiting Russia, but was kidnapped by radical Christians, then held for 15 years against her willYegor SkovorodaThe Moscow TimesMay 12, 2017 Reaching the...
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The creepy reason these Nikes are worth a fortune
Nathan JollyNEWS.com.au MAY 13, 2017THIRTY-NINE bodies, dressed in identical black uniforms, lay dead in a spacious San Diego mansion, as police combed the grisly scene.They were all members of the...
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ON THIS DAY IN 1926: THE SCANDALOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF PREACHER AIMEE SEMPLE...
Aimee Semple McPhersonThe Gospel CoalitionMay 18, 2017Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) was a flamboyant, controversial, immensely popular preacher who the International Church of the Foursquare...
View ArticleRUSSIA'S JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES BAN BACKED BY FLOURISHING SATANIC CHURCH IN MOSCOW
JASON LE MIERENewsweekMay 12, 2017Russia’s Supreme Court banned all activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country last month under its anti-extremism law. Yet at the same time, the Satanic Church of...
View ArticleHow are saints made? A primer on miracles, martyrs, virtues
NICOLE WINFIELDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSMay 11, 2017VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of “heroic virtues.” Miraculous cures.The Vatican’s complicated saint-making process has long...
View ArticleMan, 70, accuses Miami Gardens pastor of taking his dream home
Edward Fuller searched for attorney to fight pastor Eric Readon in courtJeff Weinsier - Investigative ReporterLocal 10May 18, 2017VIDEOMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Edward Fuller is one of several people who...
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Free Info SurveyComplete this one-minute survey, help ICSA help others, join ICSA's mailing list, and gain access to free e-books and other resources:Coping with Cult Involvement: A Handbook for...
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Indian woman cuts off genitals of rapist Hindu holy man
AljazeeraMay 20, 2017The woman, 23, says the 54-year-old Hindu religious teacher raped her for years and cut off his genitals in defence.An Indian woman cut off a Hindu religious teacher's genitals...
View ArticleBlood ailment fatal to cult leader Tony Alamo
Septicemia among infirmities noted in cult leader’s deathBill BowdenArkansas OnlineMay 20, 2017 .Evangelist and cult leader Tony Alamo died May 2 of blood poisoning, according to a document from the...
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Former 'students' claim core focus of Australian drug rehabilitation centre...
A Current Affair9news.com.auMay 19, 2017A former staff member at a controversial drug rehabilitation program claims the core focus of the treatment is Scientology conversion.A Current Affair has spoken...
View Article'Everybody was kicking me': Alleged beating by Canadian man at D.C. protest...
Stewart BellNational PostApril 10, 2017 TORONTO — Videos showing men in Jewish Defence League shirts beating a Palestinian-American college instructor in Washington, D.C., have led to renewed criticism...
View ArticleScientology retail plan is rare, as few churches back non-religious businesses
Tracey McManus, Times Staff WriterTampa Bay TimesMarch 18, 2017 CLEARWATER — Scientology has long set its practices apart from other tax-exempt religions by charging members for auditing sessions and...
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Polygamy chief to men: Stop being cowards, marry more wives
Polygamy Kenya President Raphael MageroRobert AmalembaStandard DigitalMay 22, 2017Following rampant cases of mpango wa kando (secret lovers) and parallel families menace among local men, Polygamy Kenya...
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