Word of Life Christian Church, Christian Brothers, Mormon Church, Shoko Asahara, Aum Shinrikyo, Legionaries of Christ, Radhe Maa, Patanjali Ayurved, China Buddhist Association, Alternative Medicine
"An October motion filed by the attorney of the church's Pastor Tiffanie Irwin - who is scheduled to be sentenced today - sought to exclude the testimony of Rick Ross at trial. But because Irwin pleaded guilty, it has rendered the discussion moot for now."
"The opinion of a self-proclaimed 'cult expert,' who appears to have only a high school diploma, has never been accepted in a New York court and is by its nature novel," Schultz wrote in his motion. He added that there is "no official discipline of cultic studies" and alleges that the witness is a "convicted felon and has a history of psychiatric treatment."
The Herald:
Brother Desmond "Neil" Richards thought he'd got away with crimes, but his victims fought back
"The Christian Brothers hid his abuse and kept moving him from school to school. His abuse of young boys continued so they sent him to Rome (in 2009) to hide him from the police and former victims,” the former East Gosford student said."
The Huffington Post: Should The Mormon Church Pay Taxes?
The Mormon Church was prosecuted, investigated for 18 months and found guilty on 13 counts of election fraud. The Mormon Church pleaded guilty to all charges and paid a hefty fine. The result, hundreds of subpoenaed documents that showed just how the Mormon Church operates in politics, including having 75 Salt Lake City based Church employees working on the campaign.
South China Morning Post: Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara was ‘criminal’ says member on death row
"Tomomasa Nakagawa, convicted for his role in producing sarin used in the deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995, said in the six-page article in the November edition of Japanese magazine Chemistry Today that Asahara transformed what was otherwise a religious group into one that produced chemical weapons and perpetrated murder."
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, ordained 36 legionaries of Christ to the priesthood in the Basilica of St. John Lateran last Saturday. Fr Eduardo Robles-Gil LC, General Director of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement, presented the candidates for priestly ordination.
"He was dressed as an eunuch. He was dressed in salwar. Initially he told that he had come from Kamakshya Temple and his name was Diana Mishra. He further asked me to search details about him on internet. I didn’t find anything on internet and fell to his evil design,”
Despite the roaring success of the past few years, the high-flying ayurvedic and herbal products brand has fallen foul of many of the country’s regulatory agencies.
On Dec. 15, a court in Uttarakhand slapped
Patanjali Ayurved with a fine of Rs11 lakh for “misbranding and putting up misleading advertisements.”
Washington Post: Excommunication, Buddhists, and temple control: An interesting new Supreme Court petition
The court allowed one of two presiding monks of the
China Buddhist Association (“CBA”), supported by a faction of at most 110 adherents, to unilaterally “excommunicate” 517 members, including the other presiding monk and a resident nun, and move to shutter the Manhattan Temple by vote of the rump faction. This procedure was unauthorized by the CBA bylaws or any other governing document.
Irish Independent: Irish cancer patients are turning to 'cult-like diets' without asking their doctors
"Unscientific diets for fighting cancer may be well-intentioned, say real medical experts, but their unproven claims do more harm to already vulnerable patients."
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