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Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps

• Mom in New Mexico Christian Sect Sentenced in Son's Death (03-14-2020)

Aum Sect - Shoko Asahara

• 25 years after Tokyo subway attack, Aum is a shadow of its former self (03-26-2020)
• 1995 Sarin Attack Survivor Asakawa Dies (03-20-2020)

Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye

• Missouri sues televangelist for selling fake coronavirus cure (03-20-2020)
• Televangelist Jim Bakker sued for selling fake coronavirus cure (03-14-2020)
• Televangelist Gets NY Cease-and-Desist Over Misleading COVID-19 Cure Claim (03-09-2020)

Bruderhof Communities

• Bruderhof: My dark past growing up in a rural English commune (03-14-2020)

Christian Fundamentalists

• Evangelical pastor mocks 'pansies,' won't close church for coronavirus (03-19-2020)
• White evangelicals in the United States, the core of President Donald Trump's political base, have far more positive views of his personal conduct and character than other U.S. adults. (03-14-2020)

Clergy Abuse

• Ungodly abuse: The lasting torment of the New Tribes missionary kids (03-23-2020)
• Former priest in northern Virginia charged with sexual abuse (03-18-2020)
• 5-year sentence for French priest who abused boy scouts (03-17-2020)

Falun Gong

• Inside the Shadowy World of Shen Yun and Its Secret Pro-Trump Ties (03-14-2020)

Falwell, Jerry

• Coronavirus: Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr. welcomes students back amid pandemic (03-26-2020)

General Information

• Scripps Research Debunks Conspiracy Theories: New Coronavirus Evolved Naturally (03-23-2020)
• Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of selling phony coronavirus cures (03-14-2020)
• Cult member describes Daybell Vallow religious views (03-14-2020)
• Man who inspired cult fears in Aroostook County arrested in Madawaska (03-14-2020)
• Case of Kansas cult killer and rapist Daniel Perez, AKA Lou Castro, featured on TV (03-09-2020)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Judge says person who criticized Jehovah's Witnesses online may remain anonymous (03-05-2020)

Mormon Church

• Mormon Church Investment Fund Had Nearly $38 Billion (03-14-2020)

Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

• Uganda's Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700 followers (03-18-2020)

Neo Nazis

• Calderdale woman who entered Miss Hitler contest found guilty of belonging to Neo-Nazi terrorist group (03-23-2020)
• German police raid neo-Nazi Reichsbürger movement nationwide (03-20-2020)
• Sweep of arrests hits US neo-Nazi group connected to five murders (03-09-2020)
• Neo-Nazis target editor of Jewish publication (03-06-2020)

People's Mujahedeen

• Defectors tell of torture and forced sterilization in militant Iranian group (03-24-2020)

Psychics

• Psychic's Curse Removal A Scam, Police Say (03-14-2020)
• Former Greenwich 'psychic' sentenced in Westchester (N.Y.) court (03-05-2020)

Satanism

• Satanic Panic (03-16-2020)

Scientology

• Clearwater businessmen part of Scientology-tied downtown purchases seek $500,000 grant (03-20-2020)
• Clearwater City Council Seat 2: Scientology critic Bunker earns historic win, awaits coronavirus test results (03-19-2020)

Shinchonji Church, founder Man-Hee Lee

• In bad faith? (03-16-2020)
• Appeal of coronavirus-hit cult raises tough questions for South Korea (03-09-2020)
• How one man's epiphany on a Seoul mountain in 1955 laid the foundation for many religious sects in South Korea (03-09-2020)

Twelve Tribes/Messianic Communities

• Grim discovery as police digging up headquarters of Twelve Tribes religious sect 'find the remains of at least one baby in a coffin-like box' (03-11-2020)
• Headquarters of secretive religious sect 'Twelve Tribes' is raided by police as investigators dig for the bodies of stillborn babies at two of its properties (03-09-2020)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Groups

• In Israel's Coronavirus Crisis, ultra-Orthodox Torn Between Rabbis, Government Orders (03-23-2020)

Unification Church

• There's a temple modeled after the Taj Mahal hidden in Southern California's mountains (03-05-2020)

Without Walls International Church

• Trump's Spiritual Adviser Paula White Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Bankroll Her Church (03-20-2020)