Archive for February, 2012
Jury awards $16.5 million in lawsuit over false memories
A jury in State College, PA awarded $ 16.5 million Thursday to a woman who said she was drugged with carbon dioxide and manipulated to believe she was raped by family members at the hands of a former psychologist.
During the trial Julian Metter maintained the woman did suffer abuse in her [...]
Rumors of Imminent Execution of Iranian Pastor Unconfirmed
Lawyers for an Iranian pastor awaiting a final decision on his death sentence have not received communication from authorities that their client will be executed, despite reports that his death is imminent.
Rumors of an imminent execution of Yousef Nadarkhani — who is a pastor in a movement considered to be theologically a cult [...]
Anne Frank posthumously baptized in Mormon ritual
Mormons operating independently of the Mormon Church — and in direct contradiction to the church’s edicts on the subject — have posthumously baptized Anne Frank in a Mormon ritual referred to as ‘Baptism for the Dead.’
In response the LDS Church has issued its strongest response yet to the violation of its agreement [...]
Dog skeletons, witchcraft books found in home
Two people are in custody after police found more than a half dozen dismembered dogs in a home in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
The police also found items related to witchcraft and the occult.
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Couple charged in son’s faith healing death free on bail
A Creswell, Oregon couple charged with second-degree manslaughter in the ‘faith healing’ death of their teenaged son pleaded not guilty in court Monday.
The couple belongs to the General Assembly and the Church of the First Born — a church with a long history of controversial death related to its unbiblical teachings regarding [...]
Second Woman Claims Clinic Gave Her ‘False Memories’ of Satanic Rituals
A second woman has filed a malpractice lawsuit against a St. Louis, MO treatment center, claiming she was hypnotized into thinking her eating disorder was rooted in “repressed memories” of cult involvement.
Leslie Thompson, 26, filed the suit late yesterday against the Castlewood Treatment Center and her former therapist, psychologist Mark Schwartz.
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Mormon church apologizes for baptisms of Simon Wiesenthal’s parents
The Mormon Church has apologised for posthumously baptizing the parents of Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
But the controversy over its un-biblical practice of posthumous proxy baptisms the dead continues.
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Islamic love guru ‘Mama Widad’ urges women to enjoy sex
Wearing a full-length black niqab — with only her brown eyes showing through narrow slits — Widad Lootah does not look like a sexual activist.
Yet this conservative Muslim is one of the best known — and most outspoken — marriage counselors in the United Arab Emirates.
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Dead children of faith healing pastor and his wife had been beaten, starved
Police in South Korea arrested a pastor and his wife Saturday after three of their four children were found dead.
The couple has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and starving their children to death
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Former FLDS spokesman sues jailed cult leader Warren Jeffs
The former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs says in a new lawsuit that sect leaders arranged a nighttime burglary that gutted his business after he was excommunicated for refusing to falsify sect records on Jeffs’ marriages to underage girls.
Willie Jessop, a onetime Jeffs bodyguard and sect spokesman, is seeking [...]