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Thursday November 12, 2009
Cults:
Cult-like groups are on the rise in New Zealand. Now the two-part Inside New Zealand: How To Spot A Cult documentary uncovers what really goes on inside these often controversial groups. The two-part documentary consists of ex-believers’ stories, and investigates the similarities they say exist between groups including the Exclusive Brethren, Scientology, Centrepoint, Gloriavale, Avatar and the International Church of Christ.
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Saturday October 10, 2009
Cults • Jehovah's Witnesses:
Raised as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brenda Lee now educates people about cult involvement in communities across the world. In free seminars, she addresses topics such as how to identify toxic organizations, the eight points of mind control and who is most at risk of joining a destructive group. [video]
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Monday November 17, 2008
Cults:
An opinion writer with a poor grasp of the facts claims that the term ‘cult’ has fallen into disuse.In doing so he merely apes the opinions of a handful of cult defenders, while ignoring the fact that the term ‘cult’ actually has precise sociological and theological meanings.
Used properly, these cult terminology is as valid today as it has ever been.
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Monday September 29, 2008
Cults • Hosanna Church • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
After the trial of Louis Lamonica, Richard Ofshe said he could have offered the jury insight into the nature of cults to help them understand what was happening at Hosanna. He said he could have told them there is no such thing as satanic cults that abuse children.
If the initial statements of the children and suspects indicate the abuse occurred as part of a satanic cult — something that has never happened — then the truth of everything alleged in that statement is questionable, Ofshe said.
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Thursday September 25, 2008
Cults • Santeria • Voodoo:
The account of a woman recovering from critical injuries she said were inflicted by members of an occult group may be difficult to unravel because it doesn’t match the typical methods used by such groups, an expert in cult activities said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police investigators released little new information about the case but cult experts and police documents raise some questions about the woman’s account.
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Thursday July 3, 2008
Cults:
Cult expert and exit counselor Allen Tate Wood has a series of brief but informative articles in The Faith Column of the New Statesman on the subject of cults.
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Saturday June 28, 2008
Cults:
Various scholars try, and fail, to answer the question asked in the headline.
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Cults • FLDS • ICSA • International Cultic Studies Association • Polygamy:
In the aftermath of the raid by Texas authorities into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints’ Yearning for Zion ranch, polygamous sects are an issue of discussion at the International Cultic Studies Association meeting this weekend at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the confernece top officials for the Utah and Arizona attorneys general were peppered with questions about prosecuting polygamous crimes.
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At the confernece top officials for the Utah and Arizona attorneys general were peppered with questions about prosecuting polygamous crimes.
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Monday April 21, 2008
Cults:
Reading about the child abuse in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Yearning for Zion community in Texas is painfully frustrating for cult specialists like me. Having worked with cultists and former cultists for more than 30 years, I am amazed and disheartened at the inability of authorities to learn from history.
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Monday April 14, 2008
Cults • Ex-Cult Support • FLDS • Polygamy:
They have escaped from a bizarre world of polygamous sex – but the girls of the West Texan sect may soon wish they could return to it, writes Tim Guest, who spent his own childhood in a notorious religious commune himself.
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Wednesday April 9, 2008
Cults • FLDS • Polygamy:
The children removed from Jeffs’ compound will likely suffer from terrifying phobias, says cult expert Steven Hassan. “In the mind of someone who has a phobia, they can’t imagine [living outside the compound] will have a positive result,” said Hassan. “They’ll develop phobias of losing their salvation or burning in hell.”
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Monday March 31, 2008
Cults:
Destructive cults make an appeal to social contributions, which turn out to be fronts for recruitment and fundraising, solely for increasing the wealth and prestige of the leader. Members surrender their possessions, money, time and lives to their leaders.
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Sunday February 24, 2008
Cults:
For many it is simply a sign of his charisma. But for a growing number of Barack Obama sceptics, there is something disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House – unnervingly akin to the hysteria of a cult, or the fervour of a religious revival.
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Friday February 22, 2008
Cults • France:
French chief of staff Emmanuelle Mignon has tried to correct some of the controversial quotes attributed to her on the subject of sects. In an interview with the publication VSD, she reportedly said that “sects were a non-problem in France”.
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Tuesday February 5, 2008
Cults • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a troubling mysticism is emerging in Russia, attracting up to 800,000 followers, experts say.
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Thursday January 31, 2008
Cults:
The CounterCultSearch.com search engine allows you to search for information about (religious) cults and related issues across 200+ websites and blogs dedicated to cult research, spiritual abuse, ex-cult counseling & support.
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Sunday December 16, 2007
Cults:
Their targets used to be university students, but today fringe religious groups are believed to be recruiting school-aged children.
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Wednesday November 28, 2007
Cults • Russia:
As the drama around the Russian sect awaiting the apocalypse in a cave in the country’s Penza Region continues to unfold, media reports of other isolated and extreme Christian groups have begun to emerge.
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Friday November 2, 2007
Cults:
Aided by the internet and other mass media, cults are flourishing, to the point where some experts estimate shinshuukyo — or new religions — number in the thousands, and count one in five Japanese among their ranks.
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
Cults • Judaism:
The sign that Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz held up Tuesday night at the Tannenbaum Chabad House read “Please keep off the the grass.”
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Friday October 12, 2007
Cults:
The list of problems plaguing college campuses is extensive: illegal drugs, alcohol abuse, sexual assault. But according to experts, there’s a lesser-known, but equally-present danger: cults.
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Tuesday October 2, 2007
Cults • Islam:
What makes an educated person from a good family join extremist groups and volunteer to become a suicide bomber? Al-Qa’ida expert, Abdel Bari Atwan and cult expert Steve Hassan explain.
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Monday July 23, 2007
Cults • Ukraine:
According to the Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop Anthony of Borispol, the most dangerous cults are the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the scientology, Hare Krishna, the White Lotus, and some charismatic groups including the Embassy of God.
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Sunday July 1, 2007
Cults:
A clergyman who has been helping people to leave cults for more than 20 years says it is important to know what such people have been searching for.
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Friday June 29, 2007
Cults:
Moldavian President Vladimir Voronin has refused to sign ‘The Law on Religious Cults and Their Component Structures’ and sent it ack to the parliament for revision, a source in the republic’s legislative body has informed Interfax.
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