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Abusive Controlling Relationships

• This Is the Difference Between Normal Fighting and Verbal Abuse (06-04-2018)
• This Is How Physical Abusers Manipulate Their Targets (05-28-2018)

Alamo, Tony

• 'He got off on you screaming and crying': Two former child brides who were forced to marry pedophile cult leader Tony Alamo tell their harrowing stories a year after his death in prison (06-11-2018)
• Terrorized as Teens, Two Former Child Brides of an Apocalyptic Cult Speak Out: 'We're Free' (05-31-2018)

Anti-Abortion Extremists

• Woman who shot Wichita abortion doctor, bombed clinics in 1990s released from prison (06-14-2018)

Boko Haram

• What is Boko Haram, the militant group terrorizing Nigeria? (06-22-2018)

Christian Fundamentalists

• Gay Christians 'being forced out' by evangelical churches (06-11-2018)
• Poll: 51% of white evangelicals support business' refusal of service to LGBT customers (06-11-2018)
• Study: Infant Mortality Rates Higher in Christian Fundamentalist Communities (05-31-2018)

Clergy Abuse

• Diocese of Rochester has paid $1.6 million to 20 sex abuse victims (06-11-2018)
• St. Paul archdiocese to pay $210M to clergy abuse victims (06-04-2018)
• Australian Archbishop Found Guilty In Cover-Up Of Child Sex Abuse (05-24-2018)

General Information

• The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company (06-21-2018)
• North Sumatra cult leader kills three, including baby (06-07-2018)
• Woman forced into labor by cult is awarded $8M in default judgment (06-06-2018)
• More than $8M awarded to victim of cult in trafficking case (05-28-2018)
• Cult leader Samuel Shaffer gets 26 years to life in prison (05-28-2018)

ISIS/the Islamic State

• Indonesia Sentences ISIS Recruiter to Death (06-22-2018)
• The radicalisation of Safaa Boular: A teenager's journey to terror (06-06-2018)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Jehovah's Witness expelled from Calgary congregation can't take his case to a judge: Supreme Court (06-01-2018)
• Hull woman thrown out of Jehovah's Witnesses - and now family and friends can't speak to her (05-28-2018)

Jonestown

• Jonestown cult ended in mass suicide of 909 as Jim Jones' devoted followers drank cyanide-laced "Kool Aid" (06-14-2018)
• Mock Suicide Drills, Child Labor and Armed Guards: Inside Jonestown in the Days Before Mass Poisoning (06-13-2018)
• Jonestown survivor recalls cult's mass suicide: 'This was murder' (06-11-2018)

Mormon Church

• MormonLeaks: LDS Church connected to at least $32B in U.S. stock market (06-01-2018)

NXIVM

• Upstate NY 'cult' NXIVM suspends operations after sex trafficking arrests (06-14-2018)
• NXIVM: Judge denies bail for founder of alleged sex cult tied to Allison Mack (06-13-2018)
• Prosecutors ask judge to keep NXIVM founder Raniere locked up (06-11-2018)
• NXIVM founder Keith Raniere seeks bail, calls Justice Department 'morality police' (06-07-2018)
• The 'Sex Cult' That Preached Empowerment (05-31-2018)
• Foreclosure Complaint Reveals NXIVM Sex Cult Rituals In Upstate New York (05-28-2018)
• NXIVM: Creating a cult leader (05-25-2018)
• Alleged sex cult recruiter Allison Mack the 'Tom Cruise of Nxivm' (05-25-2018)
• 'Cruel and Punitive': Allison Mack Allegedly Told Nxivm Women 'They Were Worth Nothing,' Report Says (05-24-2018)

Polygamist Groups

• From Polygamy to Democracy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Town (06-18-2018)
• Polygamous town under scrutiny picks outsider as chief (05-28-2018)
• Religious sect near Custer hid births from state (05-28-2018)
• In the town where polygamist Warren Jeffs used to live, graduation day is another sign of change (05-28-2018)

Psychics

• Psychic charged with fraud and money-laundering offenses (06-01-2018)

Scientology

• Church of Scientology staffer in Quebec City earned $70 for nearly 39 hours of work, document shows (06-14-2018)
• Scientology Founder's Risque Letters to Encinitas Pal Up for Auction at Christie's (06-14-2018)

TV and Radio Preachers

• Jet-set Jesus: televangelist to donate old private jet when he gets new $54m one (06-04-2018)
• A televangelist wants his followers to pay for a $54 million private jet. It's his fourth plane. (05-31-2018)

Twelve Tribes/Messianic Communities

• New York Officials Launch Investigation After Inside Edition Exposed Child Labor in Commune (06-11-2018)
• How Inside Edition Producer Went Undercover to Expose Suspected Child Labor at New York Commune (06-11-2018)
• Their beliefs have attracted attention from authorities globally. On this cold night, we went inside the home of the controversial sect. (06-11-2018)
• 'I was brainwashed': former member of Australia's mysterious Twelve Tribes Cult says she became obsessed with Satan after joining the sect in the Blue Mountains where they run a cafe (06-11-2018)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• When Living Your Truth Can Mean Losing Your Children (05-28-2018)

Unification Church

• Locked and Loaded for the Lord (05-28-2018)

Word of Faith Fellowship

• Former WOFF members talk federal investigation (06-01-2018)
• Father, son plead guilty to fraud involving secretive sect (05-28-2018)

Word of Life Christian Church

• Word of Life Church's Path From Bible Group to Lethal Sect (06-20-2018)