Has China really stopped obtaining organs from executed prisoners?
PBS News HourMay 29, 2017 VIDEOWILLIAM BRANGHAM: Decades ago, China began a practice that human rights advocates and medical ethicists condemned: taking organs, such as kidneys and livers, from...
View ArticleSovereign Citizens Sentenced
FBIMay 9, 2017‘Stole’ Vacant Homes and Filed False Claims to Intimidate OfficialsFor more than three years, a Pennsylvania group claiming to be sovereign citizens—and therefore not subject to U.S....
View ArticlePromoter of Blacklisted Festival Says His Event Was ... Blacklisted
ARTEMIS THOMAS-HANSARDL.A. WeeklyMAY 26, 2017Promoter Nick Janicki says that when he first proposed his Blacklisted festival to the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation late last...
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Hot yoga guru in hot water over sexual assault allegations, lawsuit payments...
Bikram ChoudhurySamantha SchmidtNational PostMay 26, 2017 For many of the guru’s millions of followers worldwide, Bikram Choudhury’s signature “hot yoga,” performed in sweltering, sweaty rooms, is a...
View ArticleTen Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Jehovah's Witness
REBECCA BADENViceMay 31 2017"On the same day, one guy spat in our cart and another man said people like us should be gassed."This article originally appeared on VICE Germany.Melanie is a 34-year-old...
View ArticleThe Church of Scientology wanted a vacant lot. So did the city of Clearwater,...
Les NeuhausLos Angeles TimesMay 30, 2017When the Church of Scientology secretly purchased the dilapidated 11-story Fort Harrison Hotel in this western Florida city in 1975, locals didn’t know what to...
View ArticleClearwater in negotiations with Scientology for land swap
Tracey McManusTampa Bay TimesJune 1, 2017 CLEARWATER — Two months after the Church of Scientology lost out to the city on buying a crucial downtown property it needed for its campus, church leaders are...
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Leah Remini alleges further Scientology abuses for show's upcoming second season
Leah Remini, Mike RinderChris JancelewiczEntertainment Global NewsMay 31, 2017 Leah Remini, who exposed many alleged abuses by The Church of Scientology in the first season of her A&E documentary...
View ArticleBRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE DEFENSE OF MORMON POLYGAMY
PETER FEUERHERDJSTOR DailyJUNE 1, 2017Brigham Young, born June 1, 1801 in Vermont, made his mark as the American Moses who led his people, the Church of Latter Day Saints popularly known as Mormons, to...
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John Hoyt's Journey from Male Supermodel to Cult Member
John HoytThe Main Line native discusses his shockingly unconventional path.MICHAEL BRADLEY Mainline TodayMay 30, 2017The golden hair has thinned and those vivid blue eyes have dimmed a shade or two,...
View ArticlePersecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia intensifies and targets children
Lauren MarkoeReligion News ServiceJune 1, 2017(RNS) Teachers have humiliated Jehovah’s Witness children in front of their classmates. Arsonists have burned Witnesses’ homes. Security forces have raided...
View ArticleObituary: Arthur Alexander Dole, Jr.
From ICSA:Arthur Alexander Dole, Jr., pacifist, scholar, and independent thinker, died peacefully at home on May 16, 2017. Art’s intelligence, humor and passion for nonviolence defined his long and...
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History of CultNEWS101.com
We began archiving hardcopy cult-related articles in the early eighties; in the mid-eighties we started our electronic archive (now 50K+ articles) and email news distribution.The news distribution has...
View ArticleWomen in Cults - Radio program
The ConversationBBC NewsLISTEN TO PROGRAMPrayers and preparation for the apocalypse - two women share with Kim Chakanetsa their experiences of life in strict religious communities they would call...
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In Bucks County, monsters are real: John L. Micek
JOHN L. MICEKPennLiveJune 2, 2017DOYLESTOWN -- The Stoltzfus family believed Lee Kaplan was a prophet of Jesus Christ and a dream interpreter. They loved him and respected him.DOYLESTOWN -- When you...
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Inside the real-life Handmaid's Tale cult where women are barred from having...
Handmaid's TaleThree women who lived in religious cults like "Quiverfull" - where men are dominant and women treated as subservient - have written about experiences eerily similar to the dystopian...
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Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Families
Editors: Lorna Goldberg, William Goldberg, Rosanne Henry, Michael Langone“Decades of valuable and useful research and treatment experience are contained in these essays. Nothing comparable exists in...
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How a tiny town in Iowa became 'Silicorn Valley'
John GreenfieldChicago ReaderMay 31, 2017The club car of Amtrak's California Zephyr was full of Amish families happily and loudly playing Uno as the train rolled west toward the Mississippi. I was...
View ArticleBefore the digital age, how religious groups increased the numbers in their...
Bruce T. MorrillThe ConversationJune 12, 2017 Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies, Professor of Theological Studies, Vanderbilt UniversityDisclosure statementBruce Morrill is a Roman Catholic...
View ArticleAnti-Zionist Hasidic Jews Shake the Room at Brooklyn's Barclays Center
Protesting Israel’s efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army, Satmar Jews aim to show they're behind their brethren across the oceanDebra Nussbaum CohenHaaretzJune 12, 2017 BROOKLYN —...
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