Judge orders baby to be given blood transfusion
The leaders of the Watchtower Society -- the legal organization behind the Jehovah's Witnesses -- claim to speak for God. In reality, they keep changing their minds on what he allegedly told them --...
View ArticleMan who says he is Jesus brings his controversial message back to Houston
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda claims to be Jesus. And the Anti-Christ. And the ruler of a soon-to-be-established worldwide government. Nevertheless, lots of people believe his claims and join his...
View ArticleControversy continues to brew over Twelve Tribes sect cafe
The practices of messianic Christian sect The Twelve Tribes continue to divide opinion in the Blue Mountains, Australia, with an ex-member and a potential new member throwing another log into the fire...
View ArticleExclusive Brethren sect claims it is being villified
The Exclusive Brethren -- a cult of Christianity -- has accused Australian Greens leader Bob Brown of vilifying its church and members. Senator Brown yesterday urged the Upper House to conduct a...
View ArticleExtremist street preacher Michael Woroniecki still at it
Woroniecki and his wife gained national attention six years ago when it was divulged they counseled Andrea Yates, the Texan who confessed to drowning her five children in a bathtub. She was judged not...
View ArticleRomney’s LDS faith makes him a ‘cult’ member, Texas pastor says
Mormonism's use of the term 'Christian' is false and misleading, in the same way that slapping the term 'ROLEX' onto a fake watch is deceptive. Pointing this out has nothing to do with religious...
View ArticleHolocaust survivors to Mormons: Stop baptisms of dead Jews
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly...
View ArticleLaw student gets house arrest for role in cult rescue abduction
A law student who participated in a brazen daylight kidnapping was sentenced to 15 months house arrest yesterday after admitting to a bizarre plot to rescue a woman whose family feared she was being...
View ArticleMan sees subtle victory in fight against Jehovah’s Witnesses
The father of a girl who died after refusing blood transfusions, on the basis of un-biblical teachings by the Jehovah's Witnesses -- continues to battle the cult in court. Some legal scholars...
View ArticleThe Mormon Church is a cult of Christianity
Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Monday disavowed a claim by her former pastor that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a cult, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports. Angle's...
View ArticleJeremiah Duggan did not commit suicide, coroner rules
The coroner also ruled that the fact that Jeremiah Duggan had revealed himself to be Jewish while attending a conference of the extreme Larouche organisation may have had a bearing on how he died....
View ArticleCult leader Lia Eden wants UFO to pick up her followers
Cult leader Lia Eden claims that a UFO piloted by the archangel Gabriel wants to pick up her followers. She has therefore requested that Indonesia's President and Jakarata's Governor grant the UFO...
View ArticlePolygamous FLDS cult erects wall around meetinghouse
The insular Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) is building a "fortress-type" wall around its meeting house in Colorado City, Arizona. Observers believe the wall is being...
View ArticleAnti-gay bakery owners must pay $135.000 to lesbian couple
The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon have been ordered to pay $135.000 to a lesbian couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for. Aaron and Melissa Klein said their refusal to bake for the...
View ArticleInternational Cultic Studies Association: Upcoming Events
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about psychological manipulation and abuse in cultic or high-demand groups, alternative movements, and other...
View ArticleBrazilian Evangelicals set up a ‘sin free’ alternative to Facebook
The people behind Facegloria -- said to be a sin-free alternative to Facebook -- want to take on Facebook, Twitter, and the world. Aimed initially at Brazil's booming 'Evangelical' movement, the...
View ArticleReligion News, Wednesday July 15, 2015
Scientology quacks urged veto of Texas mental health bill. Watch how dozens of Yazidi women and children escape from the clutches of ISIS barbarians. Why a Wheaton chaplaincy staffer quit the...
View ArticleEscaping Polygamy — and Scientology
'Sister Wives' sugarcoats polygamy. 'Escaping Polygamy' shows what the lifestyle is really like. Come to think of it, that's also what Alex Gibney did in his Emmy-nominated documentary, "Going Clear,'...
View ArticleAre you old enough to remember Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
In 1981 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh spent $5.75 million on a remote piece of property in Oregon and invested millions more to build Rajneeshpuram as a spiritual retreat for thousands of his red-frocked...
View ArticleNobody joins a cult, but it is easy to get radicalized
Today: stories about the Palmarian Catholic Church, how easily people get radicalised, and what IS jihadists have in mind for Europe’s cities. Also: tongue-in-cheek, How do Operating Thetans get in...
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