Tag: Magnificat Meal Movement

In this issue: cult leader Debra Burslem, of the Magnificat Meal Movement, has fled Australia for the island nation of Vanuata. An Australian current affairs program tracked her down and confronted the ‘prophetess’ with claims that she has misused funds provided by her followers.

Plus: Does evangelist Reinhard Bonnke perform miracles?

Also: next month marks the 20th anniversary of doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo’s sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

And and in-depth look at the apocalyptic theology that fuels ISIS and other Muslim radicals around the world.

Many more religion news items…

The organisations believed headed by cult followers included the Helidon Sports and Recreation Association, Tabletop Junior Arts and Craft Club, Southeast Queensland Junior Astronomers and the Helidon Celtic Historical Society. Some are on a website, registered to cult follower Clare Birchley.

The self-proclaimed visionary who told followers she was receiving messages from the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, attracted up to 400 followers after she moved to Toowoomba in 1992 from Melbourne.

HELIDON – cult leader Debra Geileskey has been allegedly travelling on a false passport claiming to be a diplomat from a fictitious country called Caledonia Australis. The sect leader, who attracted followers by claiming to receive messages from the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, allegedly had postage stamps issued from the fictitious country and used them to successfully send mail to the US. Academic Mike Garde, who has been studying Geileskey’s Magnificat Meal Movement for a PhD, claims Geileskey has also been caught running a gold investment scam. As well she had allegedly presented promissory notes amounting to more than

A wealthy US couple has launched legal action against alleged Magnificat Meal Movement “cult” leader Debra Geileskey for refusing to repay a $600,000 property loan. Claire and Dr Antoine Mansour also claim they intend to sue Ms Geileskey for millions of dollars over claims they had been involved in the production of a pornographic movie. MMM fell into controversy in the late 1990s when Ms Geileskey claimed to have received personal messages from the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. At its height, the cult attracted more than 400 people to monthly, first Saturday devotions at a former convent next door

A nephew of Charles Haughey, who shocked friends by moving to Australia to join a controversial cult, has returned home to Ireland to live. Niall Haughey and his family left Ireland behind in March 2003 to pledge their lives to the bizarre enclosed religious group Magnificat Meal Movement (MMM), whose members are told the outside world is evil. Mr Haughey is the son of the former Taoiseach’s brother Sean Haughey, a city and county manager who retired in 1989. After 10 months with the cult – which has a number of Irish members due to its base in Catholicism –

The Courier Mail (Australia), July 16, 2003 http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/ Amanda Gearing Federal police are searching for a four-year-old girl after a dawn raid yesterday on a rural retreat owned by Helidon cult leader Debra Geileskey failed to locate the child. Several carloads of federal police swooped on the cult leader’s property which also is home to several cult members who are living in two houses, a church, a converted stable and a shed on the property. A spokesman said the police were called in to enforce a custody order issued by the Family Court to recover the child. Police set up