Cult
Jerusalem court sends senior Lev Tahor cult leader Elazar Rumpler to prison in child abuse case
Elazar Rumpler, a Lev Tahor haredi cult leader, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a total of NIS 22,000 in fines and compensation for assaulting a 10-year-old child.
Colombian authorities, Interpol rescue 17 minors from ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect
Kenya exhumes 32 bodies as outcry grows over starvation cult deaths
Claims to be Christ reincarnated: Russian 'Siberian Jesus' jailed
Last three defendants in Lev Tahor cult abduction case sentenced to over ten years in in prison
Lev Tahor is a secretive group and little is known about its inner workings, and adheres to extreme interpretation of Jewish law that shields members from the outside world.
The IDF can wipe out terrorists but what of Hamas terrorist ideology? - opinion
The belief systems of cults are robust, even when contradicted by reality.
Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths
The head of the Good News International Church, ordered his followers in southeastern Kenya to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.
Kenya doomsday cult leader jailed for unlicensed film production
Authorities accuse Paul Mackenzie, head of the Good News International Church, of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
The Jews of Jonestown: Jewish members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple cult
How did a group of Jews end up thousands of miles from their homes, only to die in one of the most infamous events of the 20th century?
US arrests six 'Soldiers of Christ' after Korean woman's body found in car
The unnamed victim underwent starvation and beatings before her death.
Kenyan authorities should have prevented cult deaths, president says
Authorities accuse Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
Death toll in Kenyan starvation cult rises to 73 - police
Kenya's Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome, visiting the scene, said the death toll included 50 people found in mass graves as well as eight who were found alive and emaciated but later died.
Kenyan police exhume 21 bodies from suspected Christian cult graves
Police near the coastal town of Malindi started exhuming bodies on Friday and recovered seven bodies that day.
Kenyan police probe Christian cult after discovery of over a dozen graves
"Personally I have visited about 18 children's graves," Mikali told a local TV station. She did not say how she knew the graves contained the remains of children.
