Scientology, UK, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, Jamaica, Neo Nazis, Jehovah's Witnesses, Podcast
"The Church of Scientology is facing calls to use or sell three historic buildings in the UK after buying them for more than £6m and leaving them undeveloped for more than decade.
An Australia-incorporated arm of the church – founded by American sci-fi author L Ron Hubbard and followed by celebrities including Tom Cruise and John Travolta – owns more than a dozen properties in the UK, including several purchased by Hubbard at Saint Hill in East Grinstead, West Sussex.
They are among 95,300 property titles which are identified as being owned by foreign entities – from car parks and industrial estates to luxury homes."
"Andre Ruddock, who has been implicated in the murder of a woman during a deadly church ritual in St James last year, is to return to court on March 4 when details of his forensic psychiatric evaluation are reportedly to be disclosed to the court.
Ruddock, a member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James, appeared remotely in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston on Thursday when the case was mentioned.
The 32-year-old man is charged with the murder of Tanika Gardener, who was employed to Appliance Traders Limited (ATL).
One of Ruddock's attorneys indicated to presiding judge, Justice Ann-Marie Lawrence-Grainger, that while he is now in receipt of the evaluation that was ordered by the court, he needed more time to examine the report.
The more detailed evaluation is said to contain, among other things, the accused man's state of mind at the time of the controversial incident at the Montego Bay-based church in October.
Prosecutors told the judge that in relation to the case file, a ballistic report and a post-mortem report remain outstanding."
"A gruesome murder scene at the Freeman family's suburban Pennsylvania home led investigators to a dark, hate-filled subculture — and a horrifying conclusion about the parents' two eldest sons.
In interviews with the Freemans' extended family, they discovered that there was trouble at home with the two teen boys. Both parents had met in the local congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and brought their sons up in their faith, but the two older boys had begun rejecting it in junior high when they were bullied for their differences. By 1991 — and the ages of 13 and 12 — Bryan and David had begun experimenting with drugs and alcohol, leading their parents to send them to a rehabilitation facility by 1993.
That, the extended family told police, is where Bryan and David Freeman met their first neo-Nazi skinhead and became enamored of the violent ideology and personal freedom they felt violence could bring them.
(Notably, Jehovah's Witnesses were among the non-Jewish groups severely persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust; estimates are that there were 30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany before the Nazis came to power, and about 10,000 were convicted of and jailed for practicing their faith, with another 10,000 renouncing it. Across the Nazi-controlled territories, an estimated 3,000 Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to Nazi concentration camps and the Nazis executed about 1,700 Jehovah's Witnesses during their time in power.)
"In 10th grade, there's a very dramatic change where the Freeman brothers started dressing like neo-Nazis, wearing Doc Marten boots, Army fatigue pants," their classmate Joe Pochron told "Killer Siblings."
The brothers apparently openly wore swastika armbands, Nazi-style medals and, eventually, neo-Nazi tattoos. Bryan Freeman had the word "Berzerker" (a neo-Nazi band) tattooed along his then-hairline and a skull and bones swastika on his neck; David Freeman got "Sieg Heil" along his then-hairline.
The boys were also growing: By the time of the murders, both were over six feet tall and well over 200 pounds. The family told police they'd already come to blows with their father, Dennis, and both Erik and Brenda were afraid of them. Kids at the high school recounted other incidents, including an altercation with the driver's education teacher and one with the school principal the Friday before the murders in which Bryan referred to the man by an anti-Semitic slur and threatened him with violence, the AP reported."
Butterflies and Bravery: Voice of an Angel, Heart of a Warrior
"Susan Cagle was catapulted into fame after being discovered singing in the subway. In the next few years she would go on to release two albums, sing at the Video Music Awards, take part in an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show and even appear in an independent film. But what was happening inside her head and heart? Join us as we hear her story, her heart aches and heart breaks, laughter along the way and what's in store for her next."
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