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Amish

• The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They're Hiding a Horrifying Secret (01-20-2020)

Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye

• 'Only saved people can love Trump,' says televangelist Jim Bakker (01-10-2020)

Christian Fundamentalists

• White evangelicals distinct on abortion, LGBT policy, poll shows (01-20-2020)

Clergy Abuse

• French priest recounts how he abused boy scouts over decades (01-16-2020)

Exclusive Brethren

• Exclusive Brethren cult leader's millionaire son accused of assault (01-22-2020)
• Man's escape from 'cult' that stopped members from keeping pets or speaking to family (01-13-2020)

Exorcism and Spiritual Warfare

• Seven people killed by 'exorcism sect who beat victims with Bibles' (01-20-2020)

Falun Gong

• Behind the blitz: Falun Gong practitioners spend millions on Shen Yun ads. How do they do it? (01-13-2020)

General Information

• The psychology and physiology of propaganda: A study of the radicalization of women (01-25-2020)
• Cult leader and members indicted for murder, abuse of followers (01-22-2020)
• 'I was sexually abused by a shaman at an ayahuasca retreat' (01-20-2020)
• Pregnant woman and six children tortured and killed by a religious cult in Panama, authorities say (01-20-2020)
• Cult 'anointed by God' kills 7 in Panama Jungle (01-20-2020)
• Aharon Ramati named as rabbi arrested for alleged enslavement of women (01-16-2020)
• Haredi cult victim: Rabbi used women to groom us (01-16-2020)
• Jerusalem police arrest suspected cult leader who kept dozens of women, children (01-16-2020)
• Fears of a cult takeover roil a tiny town in northern Maine (01-13-2020)
• Case of 2 missing kids grows to include deaths, cult rumors (01-13-2020)
• My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru (01-10-2020)
• 'Doomsday cult' mom of missing kids believes she's a god: court docs (01-10-2020)
• Expert: Mother of missing children and her new husband are part of a cult (01-06-2020)
• International cult expert believes parents of missing Rexburg children are dangerous (01-06-2020)
• Doomsday cult leader whose new stepchildren are missing claimed he had visions predicting the death of his first wife, whose body has now been exhumed for toxicology tests after she was initially believed to have died of natural causes (01-06-2020)
• Family of Lori Daybell details doomsday mom's descent into 'cult' after her kids go missing (01-06-2020)
• Leaving Stony Brook to Follow a Sheik (01-02-2020)
• Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage (01-02-2020)
• Briton who was recruited aged 14 into a 'cult' that worships North Korean dictators has been kicked out at 23 after a bust-up with its leader (12-26-2019)

Hate Groups and Extremists

• Islamists get longer jail terms than far-right extremists (01-20-2020)
• Inside the secretive Black Hebrew Israelite sect of Harlem, linked to Monsey stabber (01-06-2020)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe? (01-16-2020)
• LASG, Jehovah's Witnesses clash over blood transfusion for baby (01-10-2020)
• 'I felt incredibly lost' in Dublin after leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses (01-10-2020)
• 'You have this conflict inside of you': Inside the tortured mind of devout Jehovah's Witness and AFL superstar Alex Rance - as he retires at the peak of his career and splits from his wife (12-30-2019)

Ku Klux Klan

• Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke to pay $5K to man hurt at Virginia rally (01-25-2020)

Mormon Church

• Mormons And The Tax Law (01-02-2020)
• I Was Supposed To Become A Mormon Missionary. I Became A TikTok-Famous Drag Star Instead. (12-26-2019)

Neo Nazis

• New Hampshire neo-Nazi indicted for threatening messages (01-25-2020)
• Inside the neo-Nazi hate group 'The Base,' which is the center of an FBI investigation (01-25-2020)
• Germany bans Combat 18 as police raid neo-Nazi group (01-24-2020)

NXIVM

• Judge postpones sentencing for Nxivm accountant Kathy Russell indefinitely (01-23-2020)
• Raniere loses battle to keep NXIVM 'tech' (01-20-2020)
• NXIVM's Raniere loses bid to have victims names disclosed at sentencing (01-16-2020)

Polygamist Groups

• Seth Jeffs development of Pike Lake Road property comes to a halt (01-13-2020)

Psychics

• Authorities: Mother-daughter duo claimed to be psychic, used snake eggs to convince people of curses (01-22-2020)
• Mom-daughter psychics sentenced for bilking Boynton area woman out of $1.4 million (01-20-2020)
• When a Psychic Reading Costs You $740,000 (01-10-2020)
• Psychic Charged Over $70,000 Fee For Exorcising 10-Year-Old's 'Demon' Possession (01-06-2020)
• How Did a Houston Med Student Fall for a Major Psychic Scam? (12-30-2019)

Scientology

• Man who died in downtown St. Paul was held down by Church of Scientology employees after attempted robbery, police say (01-23-2020)
• Scientology leader to Clearwater: No new plans for downtown properties (01-10-2020)
• How Nicole Kidman Almost Got Tom Cruise to Leave Scientology (12-30-2019)

TV and Radio Preachers

• Died: Jack Van Impe, Televangelist Who Saw Signs of End Times (01-22-2020)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• Transgender woman ends bid to see her ultra-Orthodox Jewish children (01-22-2020)

Van Dorsten, Gerrit

• Dutch man who kept children captive wanted to ward off 'bad spirits' with beatings, prosecutors claim (01-24-2020)

White Supremacists

• What is The Base? FBI arrest of alleged white supremacists puts focus on extremist group (01-20-2020)