Growing Up in a Cult, I Never Understood Family. Then I Became a Father TIME BY MIKEL JOLLETT MAY 19, 2020 Mikel Jollett is the author of Hollywood Park and frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Event. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us...
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The Secret Database of Jehovah’s Witness Child Abusers
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have refused three times in court to turn over a database containing the names of every known child abuser in their American congregations. Daily Beast Tarpley Hitt Feb. 09, 2020 On April 1, 2014, a high-ranking member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses named Richard Ashe was answering deposition...
Childhood Trauma Creates Addiction
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Jehovah’s Witness jailed after child sex abuse was covered up by church elders
23rd August 2013 A JEHOVAH’S Witness whose sex abuse of a child was hushed up by the church has been jailed for 13 years. Paedophile Gordon Leighton confessed to sexually abusing a child when he was confronted by church elders at Lambton Kingdom Hall in Washington. But for three years they...
No more religious exemptions: Montreal is taxing churches
CTV Montreal Published Monday, May 15, 2017 8:54PM EDT Churches in Montreal are becoming concerned about hosting community groups after being hit with bills for municipal taxes. Joel Coppetiers, the Minister at the Cote des Neiges Presbyterian church, was shocked when his institution first received a municipal tax bill in...
Russia widens Jehovah’s Witnesses crackdown with new jailings
National post MOSCOW — Russia has widened a crackdown against Jehovah’s Witnesses, jailing six adherents of the Christian denomination for extremism in a move rights activists said was unjust and flouted religious freedom. A regional court in Saratov jailed six Jehovah’s Witnesses on Thursday for up to three-and-a-half years, a...
Reddit User Continues Fight for Anonymity Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Organization
A Reddit user’s fight to remain anonymous will continue at a hearing in San Francisco federal court Thursday in a case that lawyers for the Jehovah’s Witnesses say presents a straightforward copyright infringement issue and a civil liberties group calls a sweeping attack on online free speech. Watch Tower Bible...
Escaping cult life: ‘That’s an invisible scar that never goes away’
RNZ July 9, 2019 By Anke Richter, guest writer Opinion – Journalist Anke Richter had an unexpected brush with Hollywood at a cult conference in the UK – and also found that learning early on about manipulation and coercion should be as important as sex education. Before the doors open to the...
Asking the Right Questions w/ Mike Kropveld
Rachel Bernstein – IndoctriNation : A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control. Asking the Right Questions w/ Mike Kropveld –...
TV Program – Documenting Hate: New American Nazis – Only available in Canada
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis investigates white supremacist groups in America — in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. The investigation documents the group’s terrorist objectives examines how civilian and military authorities have responded, and shows how the group has gained strength in...