Dec 9, 2016

CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/10/2016

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"More than 80 Catholic and Anglican Church priests and other representatives – including women - are alleged to have committed child sex crimes against Hunter children over decades, newly released data analysis and evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse."


"The Swiss Bishops Conference (SBK) said it had created a reparations fund worth 500,000 Swiss francs ($495,000, 462,000 euros) to be used to pay sex abuse victims who no longer have the right to seek redress in court"


"A new compensation process set up by the Archdiocese of New York, potentially the most extensive effort of its kind to date. Some 46 people have filed claims in under two months, and the total could at least triple.

The program lets people take claims, often too old for court, to a noted outside mediator while keeping painful details private."


"You get penalized for asking questions and for looking." In fact, it was a rudely rebuffed question at Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes that started her exit from Scientology, she explained."



"The program, which is expected to begin in early 2017, aims to assuage government concerns — and derail proposed new federal legislation — over social media content that is seen as increasingly driving terrorist recruitment and radicalization, while also balancing free-speech issues."


"ISIS has resorted to recruiting toothless, gray-bearded geriatrics to carry out their sick jihadist executions, according to a new report.

Over the weekend, the Islamic State released an online video showing the bizarre group of grandpas blowing away a line of prisoners with their rifles."


"FOR the sixth week in a row, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Seoul.

The angry citizens chanted “Step down! Step down! You must step down!” while marching towards the presidential Blue House in massive numbers.

They’re angry over a political scandal that threatens to end the rule of South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye."


"Former white nationalist and author of “My Life After Hate” Arno Michaelis discusses with Sheinelle Jones if the KKK and alt-right is encouraged by Trump’s campaign rhetoric and if it is possible to be a “former” white supremacist."




"Brandon and Gail Blackmore, who are separated as "celestial" husband and wife, each face a charge related to a 13-year-old girl who church records show in 2004 married Warren Jeffs, the now-imprisoned prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."



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