New Groups

• Shifu Sunkriti (04-24-2017)

New Articles

Agape Ministries

• Fugitive Agape cultist Rocco Leo fails to front court as ordered, $9 million lawsuit splits further as former parishioners lose faith (05-18-2017)

Alamo, Tony

• The strange life and demise of Tony Alamo (05-08-2017)
• Former followers react to Alamo's death (05-08-2017)
• Cult leader Tony Alamo, 82, dies; ex-members of ministry express feelings of freedom, relief (05-06-2017)

Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye

• The Second Coming Of Televangelist Jim Bakker (05-22-2017)

City Harvest Church

• City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee and 4 leaders surrender at State Courts to start jail terms (04-24-2017)

Clergy Abuse

• Lawsuit alleges sexual abuse at South Valley church (05-16-2017)
• 63rd victim alleges childhood clergy sex abuse by Guam priest (05-16-2017)
• Waterville priest removed from duties over allegations of sexual abuse 15 years ago in Connecticut (05-11-2017)
• In lawsuit, man says he and son were threatened. (05-11-2017)
• 11th priest accused in latest clergy sex abuse suit (05-03-2017)
• 7-year-old is youngest alleged clergy sex abuse victim (04-25-2017)

Exorcism and Spiritual Warfare

• Nicaraguan pastor jailed for burning woman to death in 'exorcism' (05-11-2017)

Family

• How to identify a cult: Six tips from an expert (05-03-2017)

General Information

• Deregistered Sydney pharmacist peddling faith based healing during ban (05-16-2017)
• The doomsday cult that disappeared: Mystery of 'off the planet' leader who vanished without a trace along with his partner, daughter and friend - as search for answers continues 10 years on (05-08-2017)

Global Association of Culture and Peace

• Kiwi women targeted by religious group hunting brides for convicted rapist (05-22-2017)

Hinn, Benny

• Correction: Benny Hinn Ministries Raided story (05-03-2017)

ISIS/the Islamic State

• Thousands of years of history wiped out by ISIS: Shocking new pictures show how the terror group has obliterated Syria's ancient treasures (05-16-2017)
• 'Jihad pills' found by Dutch and Italian police (05-11-2017)
• Inside a young Jersey Shore man's alleged path to ISIS (05-11-2017)
• DARK WEB ISIS ‘is building its own secret social media platform to rival Facebook where fanatics can recruit new jihadis and share vile beheading videos (05-06-2017)
• Luring youth away from radicalisation (05-03-2017)
• UP ATS plans ghar wapsi of youths from path of radicalisation (05-03-2017)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Prime Brooklyn Heights property purchased by David Bistricer's company (05-11-2017)
• Court ruling to weaken Jehovah’s Witnesses influence in Russia, cleric says (05-04-2017)
• Russia’s Supreme Court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist organization (04-24-2017)
• Top Russian Court Bans Jehovah's Witnesses, Claiming 'Extremist Activities' (04-24-2017)

Lev Tahor

• Court rules that extremist Haredi community is a cult (05-03-2017)

Mormon Church

• Mormon Church Cuts Ties With Boy Scouts’ Teen Programs (05-16-2017)
• The most Mormon country in the world? It’s Tonga (05-06-2017)
• Boy Scouts Files Show Why Child Molesters Weren’t Stopped (05-04-2017)
• 5 men file sex abuse lawsuit against Boy Scouts, Mormon church (05-03-2017)

Neo Nazis

• Hungarian Court Orders Arrest of Neo-Nazi Wanted by Germany (05-18-2017)
• Neo-Nazi arson gang targeting migrants raided by police in Italy (05-05-2017)

Polygamist Groups

• After a century, polygamists are leaving their home on the Utah-Arizona line (05-16-2017)
• Search begins for polygamist kids due money for harvest work (05-11-2017)
• Former plural wife in Utah seeks birth certificates for children born in secrecy in South Dakota (05-11-2017)
• Real life polygamy: Where sisters are sister-wives and sometimes even wife-and-wife (05-03-2017)
• Wife of accused Canadian polygamist testifies about life as a sister wife (05-03-2017)
• Alleged polygamist Winston Blackmore told police he didn’t know wife was 15 years old (05-03-2017)
• Former FLDS teen moves to Idaho Falls to find mom (05-03-2017)
• FLDS women forgotten: Healing from the inside out (04-24-2017)
• Polygamous Mormon Church Allowed to Keeps Its Police Force (04-24-2017)

Psychics

• Records detail how Mentor psychic preyed on clients' fears to take $1.4 million (05-18-2017)
• Woman claims she lost family heirlooms after visiting psychic (05-11-2017)
• ABC 7 Investigation: Self-proclaimed psychics bilk thousands from vulnerable clients (05-06-2017)
• Ohio 'psychic' sentenced to prison for stealing from clients (05-03-2017)

Scientology

• Rehabilitation centre ‘forces patients to sit in saunas for five hours and yell at objects' and is 'converting drug addicts to Scientology' (05-22-2017)
• Following parent outcry, the new school principal, who claims he vetted the church front group, intends to work with local law enforcement on substance abuse education. (05-16-2017)
• Scientology linked anti-psychiatry exhibit in DTES concerns mental health workers (05-11-2017)
• Tennessee Scientologist charged in kidnapping case (05-08-2017)
• Documents detail FBI investigation of Scientology that never resulted in charges (05-06-2017)
• Seeking to break legal logjam, judge asks for list of Scientologists to arbitrate church lawsuit (05-03-2017)
• Clearwater City Council votes 5-0 to buy downtown parcel coveted by the Church of Scientology (04-24-2017)
• Subject of Scientology film: Louis Theroux used 'morally bankrupt tactics' (04-24-2017)

Shifu Sunkriti

• Shifu Sunkriti leader Sunil Kulkarni forged signature of girl he lured into Mumbai cult to finalise deal (05-06-2017)
• 'Cult' founder's income source under cop lens (05-03-2017)
• Mumbai sex and drugs cult: Cops record statements of 2 sisters (05-03-2017)
• Mumbai cult: Sex clip leads crime branch team to Delhi, police to talk to ‘ensnared’ Malad sisters (04-26-2017)
• Drugs, sex to fashion channel: 10 things about Mumbai cult, its leader (04-25-2017)
• Mumbai cult leader, sex racket operator: Sunil Kulkarni remained in the shadows (04-25-2017)
• Mumbai cult, ‘a drugs and sex racket’, was a Facebook click away: Parents (04-25-2017)
• ‘Sex and drugs’ cult case: Petitioners’ daughters in Mumbai refuse to give statement (04-25-2017)
• Police to quiz ‘cult’ founder’s clients, check documents (04-24-2017)
• The Sunil Kulkarni Trail – Sex, Drugs & Fraud (04-24-2017)
• Shifu Sunkriti, a group that hypnotises and sexually assaults young girls in Mumbai: Founder Sunil Kulkarni denies allegations (04-24-2017)
• ‘It is not Shifu Sunkriti; Parents are at fault' (04-24-2017)
• Will register FIR against 'Shifu Sunkriti' founder: Mumbai police tells HC (04-24-2017)
• Mumbai cult leader arrested for entrapping women, sex racket suspected (04-24-2017)

Trinity Broadcasting Network

• Did TBN ministers Paul, Jan Crouch cover up 13-year-old granddaughter’s rape allegation? (05-06-2017)
• 2 Dayton-area TV stations sell spectrum to FCC for $47.3 million (04-26-2017)
• Stations Set to Reap $10 Billion as FCC Closes Auction of Broadcast Airwaves (04-25-2017)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• Author left Chasidic sect, family, for freedom (05-16-2017)

White Supremacists

• What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America (04-24-2017)

Word of Faith Fellowship

• Allegations of kidnapping, abuse at area church (05-08-2017)

World Mission Society Church of God

• Korean 'cult' recruiting in Dunedin (05-08-2017)

New Books

• The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir Anna LeBaron ( Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. March 21, 2017) Order

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