New Groups

• Teal Swan (03-26-2018)

New Articles

Aum Sect - Shoko Asahara

• Cult leader’s daughters call for him not to be executed (03-26-2018)
• Cult prevention group seeks stay of execution for ‘brainwashed’ former Aum Shinrikyo members (03-23-2018)
• Japan cult spinoffs persist two decades after sarin attack (03-23-2018)

Avatar

• Avatar: Scientology-style sect causes concern in Netherlands (04-06-2018)
• Personal development sect Avatar ‘infiltrates’ Dutch schools: media (04-05-2018)

Boko Haram

• Child bride survivors of Boko Haram share their horrific stories and urge lawmakers to rescue others (03-26-2018)
• One Month After Abduction, Boko Haram Brings Home More Than 100 Dapchi Girls (03-23-2018)

Children of God/The Family

• Investigation: Police probe Children of God sex cult as survivor breaks silence on childhood torment and abuse (03-23-2018)

Church of Wells

• 'People were so surprised we got him back' | Family describes son's experience in presumed Texas cult (04-06-2018)

Clergy Abuse

• Vatican Arrests Monsignor on Suspicion of Possessing Child Pornography (04-11-2018)
• LIST: Erie Catholic Diocese Priests, Laypersons Credibly Accused of Sexual Abuse (04-11-2018)
• Another former local priest accused of abuse, this time by a "John Doe" (04-07-2018)
• Fundamentalist Baptist pastor arrested on charges he failed to report child abuse (04-06-2018)
• Second Niagara County priest ID'd as abuser (04-05-2018)
• Dunkirk priest on leave amid investigation into abuse complaint (04-05-2018)
• First clergy abuse settlement approved in Minnesota (03-26-2018)
• Several Priests Accused Of Sexual Abuse Served In Local Churches (03-23-2018)
• Another Capuchin priest named for first time in clergy sex abuse suit (03-23-2018)
• Buffalo Diocese paid $1.5 million to settle priest sex abuse lawsuit (03-23-2018)
• Law firm releases list of 27 NY priests accused of sexually abusing minors (03-23-2018)
• Three more Buffalo priests publicly accused of sexual abuse (03-23-2018)
• Lawyers: 13 Buffalo Priests Accused of Sexual Offenses Against Minors (03-23-2018)
• $10M lawsuit alleges sexual abuse by priest (03-23-2018)

Exorcism and Spiritual Warfare

• Pastor who starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison (03-26-2018)

Faith Tabernacle Congregation

• Parents who believed in faith healing convicted for 2-year-old daughter’s death from pneumonia (03-26-2018)

General Information

• 'How bogus faith healer tore my family apart and took our money' (04-06-2018)
• ‘Far Cry 5’ Story Consultant Mia Donovan on the Dangers Posed by Real-World Cults (04-05-2018)
• Bizarre rules of Italian macrobiotic 'cult' revealed by victims (03-26-2018)
• Connecticut school board settles lawsuit over alleged cult activity (03-26-2018)
• Inside Filipino 'cult' that hacks members with machetes to give them 'bulletproof powers' (03-23-2018)
• Cops Bust 'Psycho Sect' That Pushed Strict Macrobiotic Diet (03-23-2018)

Irish Travelers

• Elderly couple latest victims of 'Irish gypsy scam after handing over $30,000 for roof works to fake tradesmen' - as police prepare to press charges amid reports the group have fled the country (03-23-2018)

ISIS/the Islamic State

• Teacher who groomed army of children for Isis attacks in London jailed for life (04-05-2018)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Jehovah's Witness parents' legal win means child with cancer can skip blood transfusions (04-06-2018)
• Sex abuse survivors allege coverup by Jehovah's Witnesses for failing to report assaults (03-26-2018)
• Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses break silence on shunning: 'My mother treats me like I'm dead' (03-23-2018)
• Abuse victim plea for Jehovah's Witness inquiry (03-23-2018)

Manson Family

• Former Charles Manson cult member Dianne Lake describes the horror of being raped, beaten with leg chairs and isolated by convicted murderer (03-23-2018)
• Charles Manson Grandson Wins Legal Battle Over Cult Leader's Body (03-23-2018)

Mormon Church

• Amid quiet life in Chandler, explosive sexual-assault allegations hit Mormon leader (03-26-2018)
• 2nd alleged sexual assault victim of ex-Mormon leader (03-26-2018)

Neo Nazis

• Swiss neo-Nazi who attacked Orthodox Jewish man sentenced to prison (03-23-2018)

NXIVM

• AG suspends probe of NXIVM nonprofit (04-13-2018)
• Neighbor speaks to CBS6 about NXIVM 'Party House' (04-11-2018)
• The Dark Cult With Billionaires, Stars And Sex Slavery Allegations (04-11-2018)
• NXIVM members subpoenaed in criminal probe (04-07-2018)
• NXIVM 'sex lair' in Halfmoon targeted in FBI raid (04-07-2018)
• Secretive group’s leader charged with sex-trafficking (04-07-2018)
• Feds Catch Fugitive Sex Slave Cult Leader Backed by Bronfman Heiresses (04-07-2018)
• Feds say self-help guru coerced followers into sex, had them branded with a cauterizing pen (04-07-2018)
• NXIVM leader Keith Raniere to face sex slave charges in Brooklyn (04-07-2018)
• 'NXIVM' leader accused of keeping women slaves as part of cult appears in Texas court on sex trafficking charges (04-07-2018)
• Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg hopes to be reunited with estranged daughter who joined cult where 'leader branded female followers' as he is arrested and charged with sex trafficking (04-07-2018)
• Feds raid home of NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman (04-07-2018)
• Self-help guru 'stripped naked victims and branded them with his initials' (04-06-2018)
• Nxivm Female sex "slaves" allegedly branded with secretive group leader's initials (04-06-2018)
• Charges Filed Against Leader of Secretive Group Where Women Were Branded (04-06-2018)
• Leader of ‘slave’ cult that branded women with his initials hit with sex trafficking charges (04-06-2018)
• NXIVM leader Keith Raniere charged with sex trafficking (04-06-2018)
• Cult leader arrested for allegedly branding women, keeping them as ‘slaves’ (04-06-2018)
• NXIVM leader Keith Raniere set for arraignment for alleged sex slave network (04-05-2018)
• Attorney general probes nonprofit associated with NXIVM (03-27-2018)

Osho/Rajneesh

• Reporter reveals ‘luckiest break’ in investigation of cult behind Netflix’s Wild Wild Country (04-11-2018)
• Before Oregon, The Wild Wild Country Cult Lived in a Castle Outside of New York City (04-11-2018)
• Everything to Know About the ‘Cult’ That Took Over a Tiny Oregon Town, Featured in Netflix’s Wild Wild Country (04-07-2018)
• My Mom Left Me for the ‘Wild Wild Country’ Cult (04-06-2018)
• ‘Wild Wild Country’: Most Shocking Reveals From the Sex Cult’s FBI Informant (04-06-2018)
• ‘Wild Wild Country’: A Rajneeshee Cult Insider on the Horrors the Netflix Series Left Out (04-06-2018)
• How an Indian cult guru famed for promoting naked meditation and group sex took over an entire US town with a mixture of deceit, fraud and the country's worst-ever bioterror attack (03-23-2018)

Overcomers Ministry

• Inside the sex cult where rapper Craig Mack died: Run by porn-obsessed paedophile (04-05-2018)

Polygamist Groups

• Polygamist sect’s ranch sits empty 10 years after raid (04-11-2018)
• The Raid on YFZ Ranch, Ten Years Later (04-11-2018)
• Polygamous Town Contractor Must Pay $200K Child-Labor Case (03-23-2018)

Psychics

• Center Twp. woman charged with theft, fortunetelling (04-11-2018)

Scientology

• Autism campaigner Fiona O’Leary abused online as a ‘hatemonger’ of Scientology (04-11-2018)
• The Troubling Connections between Scientology and the Nation of Islam (04-06-2018)
• FSB officers raid St. Petersburg Church of Scientology (04-05-2018)
• Church of Scientology moving forward with renovations on historic building on Grand Boulevard (04-05-2018)
• Scientology's Billion-Dollar Battle For Religious Tax Exemption (03-23-2018)
• 'I had my first nightmare in years': Man who watched Scientology Network for 24 HOURS reviews the shows he saw, revealing channel is full of 'agonizingly boring' and 'offensive' content (03-23-2018)
• Donations ease deficit for Church of Scientology (03-23-2018)

Teal Swan

• Spiritual guru or dangerous cult leader? (03-26-2018)
• Meet the glamorous American cult leader nicknamed the Gucci Guru who claims she's part alien and destined for world domination as followers flock to her Costa Rican jungle hideout (03-26-2018)

Trinity Broadcasting Network

• Hodges to continue LYN work despite TBN closure (04-11-2018)

Twelve Tribes/Messianic Communities

• EU Court Backs Kids’ Removal From Religious Communes (03-26-2018)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• Israel blocks ad urging women to keep their seats around Orthodox men (04-06-2018)

Waco Davidians

• Former Waco cult member opens up about escaping David Koresh in new documentary (04-11-2018)
• At Bible Study With David Koresh’s Last Followers (04-06-2018)
• The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco (04-06-2018)

White Supremacists

• Agents find ‘explosives laboratory’ and white supremacist literature at Wisconsin flat (04-07-2018)

Word of Faith Fellowship

• Former Word of Faith members claim they were coached as children on lying to DSS (04-11-2018)
• Former Brazilian Word of Faith member speaks out (03-23-2018)

New Books

• Promise of ParadiseSatya Bharti (Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.; 1 edition January 1, 2010) Order

  (04-06-2018)

• Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I learned from Life in a Religious CultSinasta Colucci (Independently published February 18, 2018) Order

  (03-26-2018)