Yoko Ono, The Walk, Religious Extremism, 2X2
" ... Kyoko Ono is speaking out over a traumatic time in her life.
After she was kidnapped at seven years old by her dad, Anthony Cox, her mom Yoko Ono and her step-father John Lennon moved to New York City in hopes of locating her. However, it wasn't until she was 30 years old that she picked up the phone and called her mother, now 92.
However, she had no idea about the search that was underway for her, and instead, grew up in a cult.
Cox, who was Ono's second husband, kidnapped Kyoko during their custody battle when he violated a court order.
"It makes me sound heartless. But I was living on a farm in Iowa," Kyoko continued to the outlet. "We didn't own a TV. And a lot of people don't understand that there's a lifestyle like that."
"When people hear about my story, they don't understand what it was like before Facebook," Kyoko, 61, revealed to the Daily Mail. "There's my mom and John doing all these things to appeal to me."
By that time, Ono had remarried Lennon, the Beatles singer and guitarist who was assassinated in December 1980.
In 1971, Cox and his new wife Melinda Kendall took Kyoko to Spain, and enrolled her in a meditation preschool in Majorca. Ono found out about the move through her lawyers, in which she and Lennon immediately flew to Spain to pick up Kyoko from school.
They were then arrested in their hotel room for kidnapping."
The New Times: Religious extremism: When does faith turn into cult?
"Concerns over religious extremism and cult-like practices are increasing in Rwanda, and the region. For instance, in 2024, Rwandan authorities shut down over 100 church caves for failing to meet legal requirements, following reports of worshipers living in isolation under unsafe and manipulated conditions.
In Kenya, a doomsday cult led by Paul Mackenzie was linked to hundreds of deaths in 2023 most of whom showed signs of starvation, including children. In the same year, in Uganda, 80 followers of a religious cult were deported from Ethiopia after being lured into fasting for 40 days, with the belief that they would meet Jesus on the 41st day.
In 2018, Prophetess Olivia of Repohim Church in Sinza, an administrative ward in Ubungo District of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, was criticized after a video showed her instructing a congregant to scream during a deliverance session. The footage fuelled accusations of staged miracles and raised concerns about deceptive practices among some spiritual leaders.
If places of worship become sites of manipulation, isolation, and harm, who then protects the faithful from those who claim to lead them? In an interview with The New Times, Reverend Nathan Chiroma, the Principal of Africa College of Theology, in Kigali, explained how to recognize and address these harmful behaviours."
Generation Cult: Opening the 2X2s Floodgates with Mike
" ... Find out what happened when Mike and Abbi left the 2x2s, a secretive Christian sect that they grew up in. Leaving wasn't really the dramatic part of the story — but when they started a support group, an avalanche of accusations against the church spilled forward. Then the FBI got involved."
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