Tag: Cults

Fifty-six years after its founding, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a reformation.

The leader of a US religious cult was “outraged” when a one-year-old boy did not say “Amen” before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.

Jaycee Dugard, kidnapped when she was just eleven, was recently found 18 years later.  This article discusses why kidnapped children such as Jaycee don’t rebel or run away from their captors.  Interestingly, there are many parallels between how kidnappers control and condition their prisoners and how religious cults do it.

The author decries mis-characterization of crimes such as murder and child sexual abuse as unrelated to religion when committed by churches.

Mother to Testify Against Alleged Cult and to Go Free if Son Rises From Dead

The leader of a Kama Sutra ‘sex cult’ has been arrested in Indonesia after giving sermons in his underpants.