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September 2021

September 13, 2021

Wired to the Moonies: Trump addresses Korean cult on 9/11

MEMBERS of the loopy Unification Church, a cult known as the Moonies, were treated at...

May 2021

May 04, 2021

Cult leader not dead, simply ‘in stasis and out of communication’

AFTER police found the mummified remains of Amy Carlson, above, draped in Christmas lights they...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

Man accused of ‘shameless conduct’ by JW cult takes his own life

FEDERICO Gómez, above, was found dead in his Puerto Rico home after receiving a summons to...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

The Incarceration of the Christ: Russians arrest ‘Jesus’

SERGEI Torop, a former traffic police officer who amassed a cult following and lots of...

July 2020

July 02, 2020

Child sex abuse: JWs risk sanctions for not joining redress scheme

THE Jehovah's Witnesses in Australia have refused to sign up to the National Redress Scheme...

April 2020

April 02, 2020

French evangelical church set off a COVID-19 ‘atomic bomb’

AUTHORITIES say they have traced COVID-19 infections in France to the country's second largest evangelical...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

JWs, in complete denial over child sexual abuse, are to be sued

AS A consequence of its refusal to acknowledge child sexual abuse within its ranks, and...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Cult claims to have recruited 100,000 members in a year

APART from all my other activities, I write a weekly column for Euro Weekly News,...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

UK pastor accused of fiddling church funds loses his sacking appeal

Pastor Martin Phelps, above, formerly of the evangelical Rhema Church in Croydon, London, this week...

September 2019

September 10, 2019

Thatcher to give her views on Brexit … from beyond the grave

UPDATE (16/9/19) Unhappy Science: A complaint has been lodged with Patheos about this report. Taku...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Cult, founded by a geezer from ‘another galaxy’, causes grave concern

IN October 2016, an ABC News "20/20" investigation exposed the dangerous activities the Genesis II Church...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

Man reads ‘The God Delusion’, abandons faith & starts a Dawkins lab

Overcoming religion and superstitious beliefs in Uganda is a daunting task, made all the more...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Car crash Jehovah’s Witnesses: the bare naked truth emerges

When Canadian police arrived at the scene of a collision last year, they found five...

September 17, 2018

Sadistic cult leader under investigation in South Korea

A doomsday cult – the Grace Road Church headed by Shin Ok-ju, above – set...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Arrested: wife of Idaho pervert chose prayer over police action

Sarah Kester, 50, a member of the Followers of Christ Church, told police after her...

July 10, 2018

Deadly Oregon faith healing cult claims another victim

Travis Lee Mitchell, 22, and Sarah Elaine Mitchell, 25, were today sentenced to more than...

May 2018

May 16, 2018

Movie glorifying billionaire evangelist fails to fill cinemas

Nada a Perder (Nothing to Lose) is an authorised biopic of Edir Macedo, founder and...

May 15, 2018

Cult leader Hopeful Christian, a 'dirty old man', dies aged 92

The founder of a New Zealand cult who changed his name from Neville Cooper to Hopeful...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Sex slaves rescued from SA cult after shoot-out with police

South Africa's National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sithole, above, has confirmed that no fewer than...

February 11, 2018

Dangerous Danish cult recruits 'world famous' singer Lou Bega

The photo above shows Lou Bega, right, praying with Torben Sondergaard, leader of 'a really...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

Jehovah's Witnesses hit with a massive child abuse lawsuit

A $66 million class-action lawsuit has been launched against the the Jehovah's Witnesses leadership, claiming...

October 22, 2017

Scientology's new UK 'church' met with a hostile response

Protesters, many of them former members of the wealthy international cult, gathered in Birmingham at...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

US cult leader faces lawsuit over alleged slave labour

Royall Jenkins, above, 'spiritual' leader of an organisation called The Value Creators and a man who...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Guru's rape case: religious sects must be better controlled

In the wake of deadly riots this week in India by followers of celebrity godman...

August 25, 2017

New Mexico cult: four more 'aggressive' Christians arrested

Following the recent arrest of members of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps – including...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

Poles apart: religion and the real world

When I was growing up in a religious Polish family I found myself really close...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Scientologists charged with kidnapping in Tennessee

Marc Vallieres, inset above, the operator of several Church of Scientology 'facilities' in Tennessee, has...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Apostates need support. Help rescue them from religion.

HumanistGlobal.org – the new website of the Brighter Brains Institute that launched the world’s first...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Bus driver told boy that his lesbian moms would go to hell

Natalie Encarnacion, above, is demanding action against a Florida school bus driver who told her...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

From cult member to apatheist

Where do I start narrating my God apathy? My teenage years, or from way back...