What's New
Additions in the Last 30 Days
This file updated 01/20/2020
Note: A Red date indicates material that has been added or updated in the last 7 days.
New Groups
New Articles
Anti-Vax Movement
Aryan Brotherhood
- What It's Like to Leave White Nationalism (12-24-2019)
Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye
Christian Fundamentalists
- White evangelicals distinct on abortion, LGBT policy, poll shows (01-20-2020)
- Rainbow crossing: conversion therapy by another name? (12-24-2019)
- Inside the purity movement and its effect on evangelical women (12-24-2019)
Clergy Abuse
- French priest recounts how he abused boy scouts over decades (01-16-2020)
- Cries of abuse in Catholic Church start to be heard in Japan (12-24-2019)
- NY Giants chaplain subject of latest sex abuse lawsuit against Newark Archdiocese (12-24-2019)
- Retired Columbus Priest Accused Of Sexual Abuse Of Minors (12-24-2019)
Etherians
Exclusive Brethren
Falun Gong
- Behind the blitz: Falun Gong practitioners spend millions on Shen Yun ads. How do they do it? (01-13-2020)
General Information
- Aharon Ramati named as rabbi arrested for alleged enslavement of women (01-16-2020)
- Haredi cult victim: Rabbi used women to groom us (01-16-2020)
- Jerusalem police arrest suspected cult leader who kept dozens of women, children (01-16-2020)
- Fears of a cult takeover roil a tiny town in northern Maine (01-13-2020)
- Case of 2 missing kids grows to include deaths, cult rumors (01-13-2020)
- My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru (01-10-2020)
- 'Doomsday cult' mom of missing kids believes she's a god: court docs (01-10-2020)
- Expert: Mother of missing children and her new husband are part of a cult (01-06-2020)
- International cult expert believes parents of missing Rexburg children are dangerous (01-06-2020)
- Doomsday cult leader whose new stepchildren are missing claimed he had visions predicting the death of his first wife, whose body has now been exhumed for toxicology tests after she was initially believed to have died of natural causes (01-06-2020)
- Family of Lori Daybell details doomsday mom's descent into 'cult' after her kids go missing (01-06-2020)
- Leaving Stony Brook to Follow a Sheik (01-02-2020)
- Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage (01-02-2020)
- Briton who was recruited aged 14 into a 'cult' that worships North Korean dictators has been kicked out at 23 after a bust-up with its leader (12-26-2019)
- What Exactly Is MITT? Fans Are Warning 'Teen Mom 2' Star Leah Messer About the Alleged Cult (12-23-2019)
Hate Groups and Extremists
Irish Travelers
Jehovah's Witnesses
- What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe? (01-16-2020)
- LASG, Jehovah's Witnesses clash over blood transfusion for baby (01-10-2020)
- 'I felt incredibly lost' in Dublin after leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses (01-10-2020)
- 'You have this conflict inside of you': Inside the tortured mind of devout Jehovah's Witness and AFL superstar Alex Rance - as he retires at the peak of his career and splits from his wife (12-30-2019)
John of God
- Celebrity faith healer 'John of God' is jailed for 19 years in Brazil for raping four women (12-24-2019)
Mormon Church
- Mormons And The Tax Law (01-02-2020)
- I Was Supposed To Become A Mormon Missionary. I Became A TikTok-Famous Drag Star Instead. (12-26-2019)
- Mormons pulling 400,000 youths out of struggling Boy Scouts (12-24-2019)
- Whistleblower claims that LDS Church stockpiled $100 billion in charitable donations, dodged taxes (12-24-2019)
- 'Absolutely Not a Choice.' Elizabeth Smart's Father on Coming Out as Gay, Leaving Mormon Church (12-24-2019)
NXIVM
- NXIVM's Raniere loses bid to have victims names disclosed at sentencing (01-16-2020)
- Frank Parlato: crusading investigative reporter or fraudster? (12-23-2019)
Polygamist Groups
Psychics
- When a Psychic Reading Costs You $740,000 (01-10-2020)
- Psychic Charged Over $70,000 Fee For Exorcising 10-Year-Old's 'Demon' Possession (01-06-2020)
- How Did a Houston Med Student Fall for a Major Psychic Scam? (12-30-2019)
- California psychic promised to 'bless' money, ran off with $100K: cops (12-24-2019)
Scientology
- Scientology leader to Clearwater: No new plans for downtown properties (01-10-2020)
- How Nicole Kidman Almost Got Tom Cruise to Leave Scientology (12-30-2019)
- How Scientology is playing in a critical Clearwater election (12-24-2019)
- Cork autism campaigner was verbally abused by Scientology employee, court findsCork autism campaigner was verbally abused by Scientology employee, court finds (12-23-2019)
- 'Searched for weapons?': Church of Scientology upsets neighbours with new security measures (12-23-2019)
- Scientology hypes downtown auditorium but still lacks a building permit (12-23-2019)
Sterling Institute of Relationship
- The marriage guru (12-24-2019)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups