A recent report from The New York Times has raised concerns about the alleged infiltration of Google by an organisation called the Fellowship of Friends that among other things follows the belief that most humans are in a state of “waking sleep.” This group, accused of exhibiting cult-like behaviour, reportedly holds significant influence within Google. Read more
77 people including 26 children have been rescued from a religious dungeon in Nigeria. They had been locked in and told to ‘wait for the return of Jesus’. Nigerian police in Ondo Town were stunned to find the hostages locked in the tiny cell beneath the Whole Bible Believers Church which they had reportedly been Read more
Kevin Lloyd, a 34-year-old former Google video producer, claimed in a lawsuit that he was fired last year because he complained about the influence of a religious sect. He alleged that as many as 12 Fellowship of Friends members and close relatives worked for the Google Developer Studio. Read more
Joachin Kouamé N’guessan, the pastor of the Patmos Dieudonné Church, who presents himself as Jesus, was arrested on March 31 in the popular commune of Yopougon in Côte d’Ivoire and placed under arrest warrant by the public prosecutor. Read more
Gwen Shamblin believed people could pray themselves thin. In 1999 she launched Remnant Fellowship, based on her diet teachings. Last year she and her husband, former Tarzan actor Joe Lara, as well as five other leaders within Remnant Fellowship, died in a plane crash. Now a docuseries, The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult Read more
On June 30 Braden Simmons attended an informal session with the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Eleven days later, two lawyers, a private investigator and a forensic expert showed up at Simmons’ Mangere Bridge home just before dawn. They had a court order to search every electronic device in his home. The Read more
Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, the subject of some of Louis’ most famous documentaries, will make a special appearance with Louis on stage in Auckland. Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church known for picketing funerals of U.S. service members. Since leaving the Read more
Huge crowds are gathered at the Nadi Magistrates Court in Fiji today after news broke a man had been charged in relation to the deaths of a family in the Nausori Highlands last month Police have charged a man who holds Permanent Residency status in New Zealand with five counts of murder and one of Read more
An event to be held in the ASB Theatre in Auckland has been advertised where it is claimed people will “receive the ‘Answers’ to the problems that just won’t go away plus the arrival of the Ark of the Covenant. Also, a bottle of anointing oil, blended with olive oil from the Holy Land will be given Read more
The University of Otago is encouraging students to come forward and report any inappropriate behaviour, on or off-campus, after reports, a religious group dubbed a cult is operating in North Dunedin. Read more