New Groups

• Grace Road Church (08-16-2019)

New Articles

Anti-Vax Movement

• As vaxccine opposition grows, survivors of measles, mumps and rubella warn of lifelong effects, including vision loss, deafness: 'How different my life would have been' (08-06-2019)

Bruderhof Communities

• Inside The Bruderhof (08-06-2019)
• Welcome to the village where there is no TV, divorce or debt - but also strict regulations (08-06-2019)
• Inside radical UK Christian sect where members need permission to begin dating (07-23-2019)

Chabad Lubavitch

• Rabbi Accused of Sexual Harassment Resigns After Second Woman Comes Forward (08-14-2019)

Christian Fundamentalists

• Why Netflix Decided to Spotlight a Little-Known Christian Sect - and How the Group Is Defending Itself (08-16-2019)
• Evangelical Writer Who Influenced Purity Culture Announces Separation From Wife (08-05-2019)

Clergy Abuse

• Filings detail clergy, school abuse in Niagara County (08-21-2019)
• Diocese of Harrisburg pays out $12 million to victims of clergy sex abuse (08-16-2019)
• Local fundamentalist Baptist preacher charged with child sex abuse (08-16-2019)
• Guam's ex-archbishop shielded culture of clergy sex abuse (08-13-2019)
• Archbishop Carlson releases list of clergy with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse (08-06-2019)
• An Evangelical Megachurch Is Sued for More Than $1 Million in Child Sexual Abuse Case (08-06-2019)

Elizabeth Smart Abduction

• Ed Smart, father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, comes out as gay (08-19-2019)

Falun Gong

• Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times (08-21-2019)

General Information

• The Cult of Trump (08-19-2019)
• Cult leader James 'Taipan' Salerno jailed for repeated sexual abuse of teenage girl (08-06-2019)
• How to rescue a loved one from a sect (07-23-2019)

Global Association of Culture and Peace

• Cult Leader Jung Myung-seok Released After Serving Full 10-Year Sentence (08-19-2019)

Grace Road Church

• South Korean Grace Road Church cult founder Shin Ok-ju gets six years in jail for torturing followers in Fiji (08-16-2019)

Hamilton-Byrne, Anne and The Family, Australia

• The Family: 'Raised in a doomsday cult, I entered the real world at 15' (08-21-2019)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Critics Decry Abuse, Cultishness as 40,000 Jehovah's Witnesses Gather in Phoenix (08-13-2019)

La Luz del Mundo

• Light of the World: Mexican church holds gathering amid sex crimes scanda (08-16-2019)

Lev Tahor

• Five men indicted in Jewish sect kidnapping case (08-13-2019)

Manson Family

• Manson's Female Followers Now Have Vastly Different Perspectives Of The Cult Leader (08-16-2019)
• Who Were The LaBiancas, And Why Did The Manson Family Target Them? (08-16-2019)
• Why Did The Manson Family Members Have Nicknames? (08-14-2019)

Mormon Church

• Son's Suicide Leads Dad to Take on Mormons (08-13-2019)

Neo Nazis

• Judge orders neo-Nazi website to pay black university graduate nearly £600,000 for racist 'troll storm' (08-16-2019)

NXIVM

• Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman pays feds $6M over role in Nxivm (08-16-2019)

Polygamist Groups

• Lawyer says FLDS leader Warren Jeffs has had mental breakdown (08-14-2019)
• Cult leader, Ron Lafferty, who killed two in Utah loses latest appeal, may soon face firing squad (08-14-2019)
• Members of polygamist group plead guilty to energy scam (08-05-2019)
• Feds move to seize homes and businesses from polygamous Kingston Group as fraud defendants plead guilty (07-23-2019)

Scientology

• CRUISE CONTROL: Tom Cruise moves his family into his luxury Scientology apartment block 'to stop them leaving cult like Katie Holmes' (08-20-2019)
• Scientology stalked, threatened women who accused actor Danny Masterson of assault, according to lawsuit (08-19-2019)
• Danny Masterson and Church of Scientology Sued Over Sex Assault 'Cover-Up' (08-16-2019)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• 'It's a miracle': Orthodox rabbi transitions to woman in harrowing journey (08-06-2019)

White Supremacists

• Shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums (08-13-2019)
• 3 members of white supremacist group sentenced for violence at rallies (07-23-2019)

World Mission Society Church of God

• Doomsday cult travels 5,000 miles to 'bombard UK students with calls and texts' (08-13-2019)

New Books

• Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a CultSusan Ashline (Pegasus Books; 1 edition August 6, 2019)Order

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