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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/27/2020 May 27, 2020
Ravi Zacharias, Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation, Jehovah's Witnesses, Faith Healing, Covid-19 CNN: Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist, dies at 74"Ravi Zacharias, who spent his life defending Christianity through books and lectures, has died. He was 74.Zacharias had been battling sarcoma and died at his home in Atlanta on Tuesday, Zacharias International Ministries said.He was a leading figure among […]
Church of Scientology hands out 50,000 coronavirus pamphlets resembling New Zealand government advice May 27, 2020
The 50,000 booklets bearing a yellow-and-white colour scheme contain a QR code that links the reader to Church of Scientology websiteThe pamphlets look like official advice circulated by New Zealand government but the church said any similarities were ‘pure coincidence’South China Morning PostCompiled by SCMP’s Asia deskMay 27, 2020Shops in New Zealand’s largest city have […]
History of the '90s podcast: Doomsday cults May 27, 2020
GlobalNews.caMay 27, 2020 On the next few episodes of History of the ’90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks at the doomsday cults and their rise to infamy in the years leading up to the new millennium.During the 1990s, the world began to seem more dangerous, with war, environmental destruction and social breakdown becoming part of the […]
Lev Tahor Cult School Principal Indicted In Jerusalem For Child Abuse May 27, 2020
Yeshiva World NewsMay 26, 2020 On Tuesday, in the Jerusalem District Court, an indictment was filed against Elazar Rompler for child abuse. Rompler served as a school principal in Canada for the Lev Tahor cult and is charged with mentally and physically abusing at least two children, ages 8 and 9 respectively between the years […]
'The Prophet And The Space Aliens': Thessaloniki Review May 24, 2020
TIM GRIERSON, SENIOR US CRITICScreen InternationalMay 21, 2020Yoav Shamir delivers a thoughtful documentary about a guru who believes in UFOs’THE PROPHET AND THE SPACE ALIENS’Dir/scr: Yoav Shamir. Israel/Austria/South Africa/Canada. 2020. 86mins.A study of religion and true believers, The Prophet And The Space Aliens takes a thoughtful approach to what could potentially be a satiric premise, […]
Clare Bronfman, citing pandemic, asks for delay in NXIVM sentencing May 24, 2020
Seagram's heiress hopes her family can attend court proceedingRobert GavinAlbany Times UnionMay 21, 2020NEW YORK — Seagrams’ heiress and longtime NXIVM executive Clare Bronfman has asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to adjourn her June 25 sentencing in Brooklyn in part because the COVID-19 pandemic will keep her family from attending.Bronfman, 41, who provided longtime […]
Prosecutors Raid Facilities Belonging to Shincheonji Sect in COVID-19 Probe May 24, 2020
KBS WORLD Radio NewsMay 22, 2020 Prosecutors in South Korea raided facilities nationwide belonging to the Shincheonji religious sect, of which mass gatherings are suspected of having caused a COVID-19 outbreak in the southeastern city of Daegu and surrounding regions.Some 100 prosecutors and investigators from the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office began the search and seizure […]
Self-styled ‘godman’ Daati Maharaj booked for holding religious event in south Delhi temple May 24, 2020
The event was attended by over 30 people, most of whom were not even wearing masks. Daati Maharaj is also an accused in a case of rape and unnatural sex.ANANYA BHARDWAJThe PrintMay 23, 2020New Delhi: The Delhi Police Saturday registered a case against a self-styled godman, Daati Maharaj, and his accomplices for allegedly holding a […]
Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to intervene when someone needs help May 24, 2020
This Podcast Will Save The World: Episode 5: CultsMay 23, 2020Interview with 1BR writer/director David MarmorCult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to intervene when someone needs help.https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-2sh2e-dd7bf6
For This Russian Messianic Cult, Coronavirus Isolation Is a 'Blessing' May 22, 2020
As the pandemic sows fear and uncertainty, some are looking to a Siberian mystic for answers.Pjotr SauerThe Moscow TimesMay 21, 2020In the depths of the Siberian taiga a group of around a hundred people in white robes stand around a statue of an angel topped with a cross inside a circle. They sing and clasp […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/22/2020 May 22, 2020
Covid-19, Hasidic, Russia, Religious Freedom, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, Synanon NY Times: Hasidic School With 60 Children Is Closed for Violating Virus Ban"The buses arrived early Monday to drop off dozens of children at a Hasidic school in Brooklyn.Neighbors watched with alarm as the children, few of them wearing masks, filed into the building, crowded into […]
Coronavirus: How do I recognize a conspiracy theory? May 22, 2020
DWMay 19, 2020Conspiracy theories are coming in hard and fast during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of them even sound plausible. So it's important to know: what makes a conspiracy theory? And why are they so popular?We are in the midst of a crisis. Not only a health and economic crisis, but also a psychological one. […]
Thought Reform Criteria in Multilevel Marketing - Hey Hun You Woke Up May 21, 2020
The Recovering HunbotMay 14, 2020"Today Spike and I discuss with Jon, Lifton's thought reform criteria and how it relates to multilevel marketing.MLM like any other high control group uses thought reform tactics that erode your critical thinking. Examining the criteria Lifton outlines helps to examine the destructive nature of multilevel marketing."
Growing Up in a Cult, I Never Understood Family. Then I Became a Father May 20, 2020
MIKEL JOLLETTTIMEMAY 19, 2020 Mikel Jollett is the author of Hollywood Park and frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Event.We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us […]
Clearwater council struggles to address Scientology's impact on downtown May 20, 2020
Council member Mark Bunker said the city should ask the FBI to investigate the church. None of his colleagues agreed.Tracey McManusTampa Bay TimesMay 18, 2020CLEARWATER — The new City Council on Monday conducted its first public discussion on an issue voters raised as a top concern in the recent election: The Church of Scientology’s impact […]
Russia: 39 Trials With 87 Defendants May 20, 2020
Victoria ArnoldF18NewsEurasia ReviewMay 20, 2020For 87 Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial in 39 cases for “continuing the activities of a banned extremist organisation”, court proceedings can be lengthy. As well as the strong possibility of conviction, bringing with it a criminal record and a heavy fine or prison sentence, prosecution and trial can have wider consequences, […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/20/2020 May 20, 2020
Multi-Level and Network Marketing, Mind Control, Conspiracy Theories, Televangelist Jim Bakker, Eliezer Berland, ultra-Orthodox, Shuvu BonimKomo News: FTC warning to Multi-Level and Network Marketing companies: Cool it on the claims" ... The FTC is going after multi-level marketers that use the coronavirus pandemic in their pitches to sell products or recruit new people."Two concerns that you have to […]
Hasidic School With 60 Children Is Closed for Violating Virus Ban May 20, 2020
After receiving a complaint, the police descended on the building in Brooklyn and discovered the students. Few were wearing masks.Liam Stack and Nate SchweberNew York TimesMay 18, 2020 Updated May 19, 2020,The buses arrived early Monday to drop off dozens of children at a Hasidic school in Brooklyn.Neighbors watched with alarm as the children, few of them […]
Some Catholics seek to counter Galileo May 19, 2020
Manya A. BrachearChicago TribuneJuly 4, 2011Some people believe the world literally revolves around them. It's a belief born not of selfishness but faith.A small group of conservative Roman Catholics is pointing to a dozen biblical verses and the Church's original teaching as proof that the Earth is the center of the universe, the view that […]