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...
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...
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...
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...
Rachel Bernstein – IndoctriNation : A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control. Asking the Right Questions w/ Mike Kropveld –...
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...
US attorney: “Keith Raniere’s crime spree has ended” By Veronica Rocha, Meg Wagner, Mike Hayes and Elise Hammond, CNN June 19, 2019 Richard Donoghue, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, thanked the judge and jury for “carefully considering evidence” in the trial of Keith Raniere. “Keith Raniere’s crime spree...
By Alexandra Stein, South Bank University Sex cult leader Keith Raniere, has been convicted in New York of charges including racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography. For 20 years, Raniere was the leader of Nxivm (pronounced nexium), which claimed to be a self-help group and to have thousands of followers....
Police executed a search warrant last week at the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kraainem just outside Brussels, the VRT reports. The news was confirmed by the federal prosecutor’s office. It has been revealed that an investigating magistrate has been carrying out an enquiry into the movement since January,...
John Cunningham entered a Narconon rehab facility spreading the gospel of Scientology. Then he ended up dead. Arecent $11 million jury verdict in California has found an L. Ron Hubbard-inspired rehabilitation center’s “negligence” to be a “substantial factor” in the death of a man who sought treatment at the facility....
