New Groups

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Adi Da

• The Cult My Parents Forced Me Into Was A Hippie Sex Scam (06-13-2017)

Al-Qaeda

• Inside Saudi Arabia's rehab centre for jihadists (05-31-2017)

Aum Sect - Shoko Asahara

• VX survivor recalls brush with Aum assassin in ’95 (05-26-2017)

Bikram Yoga

• Bikram Choudhury: Judge issues arrest warrant against yoga founder (05-26-2017)

City Harvest Church

• Kong Hee, City Harvest leaders permanently barred from managing charities: MCCY (05-26-2017)

Clergy Abuse

• Chandler man files sex abuse lawsuit against Catholic archbishop in Guam (06-21-2017)
• New clergy abuse lawsuit against now defrocked priest Cepeda (06-02-2017)

Exclusive Brethren

• 'I grew up in a cult' (06-13-2017)

Followers of Christ

• Oregon ‘faith-healing’ parents charged with murder after infant dies (06-12-2017)

General Information

• This Secret Catholic Exorcist Cult in Brazil Is Making a Deal with the Devil (06-19-2017)
• What life is like in the mysterious and powerful religious sect founded in Plymouth (06-19-2017)
• Leaving School to Join Sect: Stanford safety's mother alleges mind control (06-12-2017)

Hate Groups and Extremists

• The four reasons people commit hate crimes (06-05-2017)

ISIS/the Islamic State

• Islamist extremism: Germany invests millions to prevent radicalization (06-16-2017)
• The Internet's complex role in radicalization For Islamic State, the Internet is an important means of propaganda and recruitment. (06-12-2017)
• London attack: How are UK extremists radicalised? (06-12-2017)
• What happens when you join the Islamic State — then change your mind (06-02-2017)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Jehovah's Witness agrees not to show son religious cartoons because of risk of 'emotional damage' (06-12-2017)
• Man who almost died after refusing blood transfusion hits out at 'harmful' Jehovah’s Witness teachings (05-26-2017)
• Jeffrey Gershon to buy Jehovah’s Witnesses site in Dumbo for $60M: sources (05-26-2017)

Ku Klux Klan

• Ku Klux Klan remains active in 33 states but is 'small and fractured' (06-23-2017)

Malvo, Lee Boyd

• Federal judge tosses out life sentences for DC sniper Malvo (05-31-2017)

Messianic Jews

• Messianic Jewish Publisher Sparks Ultra-Orthodox Anger at Israeli Book Week (06-20-2017)

Mormon Church

• Mormon girl, 12, is stopped from speaking as she explains why she is gay to church (06-19-2017)
• Gays 'outed' when new Tory MP was key figure in Mormon church (06-19-2017)
• 39 years later, priesthood ban is history, but racism within Mormon ranks isn’t, black members say (06-12-2017)
• LDS millennials are more Democratic, diverse than older Mormons, survey shows (05-29-2017)

Neo Nazis

• Hundreds of wanted 'neo-Nazis' at large in Germany (06-06-2017)
• Five-year neo-Nazi trial collapses as judge retires (06-02-2017)

North Korea

• Follow my leader: How Kim Jong Un builds his personality cult (06-12-2017)

NXIVM

• The Knife of Aristotle Isn't Just a Fake "Fake News" Site—It's a Cult (06-01-2017)

Polygamist Groups

• Polygamous leader hit with new felony charge after capture (06-23-2017)
• FLDS church leader Lyle Jeffs in jail a year after fleeing federal custody (06-16-2017)
• Fugitive FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs is in default in child labor case (06-14-2017)
• Mormon church — the one that doesn’t practice polygamy — is becoming a fixture in a polygamous town (06-05-2017)

Psychics

• Police issue warning following complaints of fraudulent psychic readers (06-16-2017)
• Psychic scammed grad student out of $2.5K to lift family curse: suit (06-14-2017)
• Tarpon Springs psychic charged with defrauding veteran, widow out of $155,000 Times staff (05-26-2017)

Ray, James Arthur

• Like It Never Even Happened (05-25-2017)

River Road Fellowship

• Victor Barnard: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know (06-13-2017)

Satanism

• Texas Daycare Operators Found "Actually Innocent" of Satanic Child Abuse After 25 Years (06-23-2017)
• A Satanist on why everything you think you know about his religion is wrong (06-02-2017)

Scientology

• Third of five detained members of Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg arrested (06-12-2017)
• Church of Scientology accused of $4.8mn illegal profit in Russia’s St. Petersburg (06-12-2017)
• FSB searches Church of Scientology’s St. Petersburg office in extremism probe — source (06-12-2017)
• Scientologists are 'rearming' in Copenhagen: researcher (06-06-2017)
• Scientology church moves in; condo developer moves on (06-05-2017)
• Clearwater in negotiations with Scientology for land swap (06-02-2017)
• Church of Scientology “disconnects” with Coral Gables location for $6M (06-01-2017)
• Scientology moves into new location in the centre of Copenhagen (05-31-2017)
• 50 objections against planning application for Scientology HQ (05-26-2017)

Shifu Sunkriti

• Mumbai: Shifu Sunkruti cult leader Kulkarni booked for cheating (06-23-2017)
• ‘Sex and drugs cult’: Bombay high court gives cops more time to investigate (06-12-2017)

Trinity Broadcasting Network

• Trinity Broadcasting Network on hook for entire $2 million judgment awarded to Jan Crouch’s granddaughter, judge says (06-15-2017)
• Molestation scandal is latest setback to once-mighty Trinity Broadcasting Network (06-13-2017)
• Jury awards televangelist's granddaughter $2 million in Trinity Broadcasting molestation scandal (06-13-2017)
• Granddaughter who alleged rape cover-up is awarded $2 million in Trinity Broadcasting Network lawsuit (06-12-2017)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• Thousands of anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Jews protest in Brooklyn against IDF conscription (06-12-2017)
• 'You Will Lose Your Entire Family': Inside The Struggle To Come Out In Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (06-02-2017)

Universal Medicine

• Doctor found guilty over referrals (06-03-2017)
• Doctor rebuked over 'spiritual healing' group touting 'esoteric breast massage' (06-03-2017)
• Universal Medicine affiliated doctor reprimanded (06-03-2017)

Word of Faith Fellowship

• Mistrial in Word of Faith abuse trial due to jury tampering (06-12-2017)
• Man charged with harassing jury in trial of pastor accused of leading beating to expel ‘homosexual demons’ (06-12-2017)
• Prosecutor: Minister ‘directed’ beating of gay congregant (06-02-2017)
• 'Am I going to die?' Gay man testifies in church beating trial (06-02-2017)

World Mission Society Church of God

• Group reapplies to convert Pocono Dome into church (06-20-2017)

New Links

• Stanton Church of Christ, critical commentary

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