In the mid-1960s, Australian yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne founded the Family Cult and convinced her followers she was the ...

Bethany Joy Lenz, too, didn't realize she was in a religious cult. She was just hanging out with a group of like-minded friends who didn't judge her faith. The group ultimately cost her a major ...

Their unyielding allegiance, often immune to truth or ethics, has birthed not just a religious crisis but a constitutional reckoning. Trump’s Defiance of the Constitution—and the Church’s ...

The meaning of the word “cult” has changed quite a bit. It was originally used simply to describe small, fringe religious movements — groups that were offbeat and outside the mainstream ...

Recent rescue of worshippers in Migori opens wounds of 2023 Shakahola Forest ‘massacre’ during which 429 people died.

People wonder if Pope Leo will reform the group, which has been accused of abuse, financial wrongdoing and human trafficking.