New Groups

• Ray, Lawerence (aka Larry Ray) (09-10-2021)

New Articles

Anti-Vax Movement

• A brief history of the anti-vaccination movement and where it all started (09-20-2021)

Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye

• How televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker became an unlikely ally in the AIDS crisis (09-20-2021)
• Televangelist Jim Bakker agrees to refund Arkansans who bought 'cure-all' products he peddled (09-13-2021)

Brainwashing

• From QAnon to anti-vaccination scholar Andy Norman says we face a scourge of mind parasites (09-28-2021)

Children of God/The Family

• Children of God cult survivor claims founder marriged girl 3 in sick ceremony (09-28-2021)

Christian Fundamentalists

• The Evangelical Who Got Fired for Promoting Vaccines (09-07-2021)
• How the Pandemic Radicalized Evangelicals (08-31-2021)

Church of Almighty God

• Chinese cult owns large portion of land in North Chungcheong (09-08-2021)
• Chinese cult owns large portion of land in North Chungcheong (09-08-2021)

Clergy Abuse

• Sexual abuse by clergy (09-20-2021)
• Religious groups in UK failing children over sex abuse, report says (09-03-2021)
• Camden diocese faces wave of clergy sex-abuse claims (09-02-2021)
• NY Jewish institutions hit with 150 child sex abuse lawsuits since 2019 (09-02-2021)

Daybell, Chad and Lori Vallow

• Chad Daybell's children claim he was "fooled in the worst, most deadly way possible" by Lori Vallow (09-03-2021)

Falun Gong

• Epoch Times newspaper rising force in conservative media buys Middletown office building (09-24-2021)
• Climate denial newspaper flourishes on Facebook (08-31-2021)

General Information

• He held me hostage with no gun but with his words:The phone scam gaslighting therapists (09-28-2021)
• Edmonton de-radicalization program still sorting through tough questions two years after launch (09-28-2021)
• HOLY HELL Inside cult for beautiful people where monster guru raped disciples who compare him to Hitler in new doc (09-24-2021)
• Why MLMs Like LuLaRoe Are Disturbingly Similar to Cults (09-20-2021)
• 'RHOSLC' star Mary Cosby is running a cult, ex-church memb (09-20-2021)
• Teen convicted in 2014 ‘Slender Man’ stabbing to be released from mental health facility on Monday (09-13-2021)
• The researchers conducted five studies to investigate whether conspiracy theories were appealing because they had entertainment value. (09-13-2021)
• In India to learn Vedanta, US citizen distances himself from family; Bombay HC refuses parents' plea to evaluate his mental state (09-03-2021)

Gloriavale/Neville Cooper

• Gloriavale police investigation: At least 60 people involved in 'harmful sexual behaviour' (09-20-2021)

ISIS/the Islamic State

• Ex Islamic State member says he was 'naive' and brainwashed by religious extremism - but reading the Koran helped him steer away from the terrorist group (09-20-2021)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (09-14-2021)
• These Sydney women left a 'cult like' religion — this is what they learned (09-07-2021)

Kelly, R.

• R. Kelly convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in New York (09-28-2021)
• A Month Into R. Kelly's Trial Here's What It's Been Like In The Courtroom (09-27-2021)
• Cult experts explain why R. Kelly's accusers would stay in his orbit despite harrowing abuse allegations (09-02-2021)

Love Has Won

• Saguache County DA dismisses charges against four Love Has Won cult members (09-20-2021)
• LOVE HAS LOST (09-08-2021)

Mormon Church

• Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Mormon Church Use of Donations (09-20-2021)

NXIVM

• Sex cult defendant Allison Mack becomes Dublin's latest celebrity prisoner (09-20-2021)
• NXIVM's Nancy Salzman sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison (09-09-2021)
• Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman slapped with 3 years in prison (09-09-2021)
• Nxivm’s Second-in-Command Helped Build a Culture of Abuse, Survivors Say (09-08-2021)

Odyssey Study Group, OSG, Fourth Way School

• Two ex-members of secretive NYC cult say they paid $400 a month to serve as assistants cooks and drivers for actress and founder who lived life of luxury at the Plaza Hotel (09-25-2021)
• Manhattan cult duped women into paying fee working for free: lawsuit (09-25-2021)
• Plaza Denizen Ran Secret Cult Masquerading As Study Group:Suit (09-24-2021)

QAnon

• Evangelical Pastors Are Secretly Spreading the Gospel of QAnon on YouTube (09-09-2021)

Ray, Lawerence (aka Larry Ray)

• I went to Sarah Lawrence and unwittingly joined a dangerous sex cult (09-27-2021)
• "Nobody joins a cult. They join a group of friends": What went down in the "Sarah Lawrence cult" (09-10-2021)

Scientology

• Russia moves to ban undesirable Church of Scientology groups (09-27-2021)
• Russia Bans Church of Scientology With Undesirable Tag (09-25-2021)
• David Duchovny recalls strange Scientology recruiting effort, slams its tax-exempt status (08-31-2021)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• Public supports govt religious reforms, liberalization - survey (09-02-2021)

Unification Church

• Trump gives virtual speech to event linked to controversial religious ‘cult’ on 9/11 anniversary (09-14-2021)
• Donald Trump spoke at a 9/11 'Moonies' conference organized by the widow of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, praising the controversial Unification Church (09-13-2021)
• Lengthy Lawsuit Exposes Rifts Within Unification Church (09-09-2021)

Weigh Down

• New Trailer for HBO Max Docuseries The Way Down Explores Cult of Late Diet Guru Gwen Shamblin (09-27-2021)