Reality TV dad and tabloid staple Jon Gosselin could have another court date in his future, but for once he doesn’t have to face off with his estranged wife or the cable network that made him famous. No, Gosselin’s next courtroom rival is set to be none other than ex-gal pal and alleged former employee Kate Major.
A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death.
A Maryland woman who pleaded guilty to being part of a religious cult that starved her toddler son to death will soon be released from the Baltimore jail.
A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane. The mother made an extraordinary deal with prosecutors Monday that her guilty plea to child abuse resulting in death will be withdrawn if her 1-year-old son, Javon Thompson, comes back to life. Law experts and psychiatrists said there was no problem with the agreement because Ria Ramkissoon, 22, was mentally competent and freely entered into the deal, and extreme religious beliefs aren't deemed insane by law.
After denying Javon Thompson food and water for two days because he wouldn't say "Amen" after meals, the 1-year-old's caretakers waited for a divine sign that their message had been heard: a resurrection.
A handful of Russian doomsday cult members on Friday crawled out of the damp cave where they had holed up for months awaiting the end of the world after authorities removed two rotting corpses from their underground lair.
Fourteen more members of a Russian cult that has been holed up in a cave for months awaiting the end of the world emerged Tuesday after melting snows caused more of their hillside cave to collapse, officials said.
Mexican police were sent to a religious community with thousands of members to maintain order after its reclusive leader died amid a bitter power struggle over who would succeed him, authorities said Wednesday.
Doctors and rescuers were trying Friday to coax more than two dozen doomsday cult members into leaving their forest hideout near the Volga River, where they were awaiting the end of the world with the coming of spring.
A barn where a couple and their three children were bound, shot to death and buried by a cult leader nearly 20 years ago has been demolished to make room for a church.
The messianic Shiite cult that battled U.S. and Iraqi forces last weekend had been known to authorities for two years and was believed to have no links to other Shiite groups, an Interior Ministry official said Wednesday.
His portraits hang in homes across Venezuela. Loyal "Chavistas" cheer him on during folksy speeches that last up to seven hours and end up in print for sale on street corners. Admirers often say he embodies the spirit of Simon Bolivar, South America's 19th century independence hero.
THREE GENERATIONS of an aristocratic French family have "awoken" from the spell of an Oxford-based guru who is accused of spinning a lurid fantasy to rob them of their fortune.
The "3 faces of Eve" was a story based on real life events of a woman who had "dissociative identity disorder." She was called Eve in the story. Personality #1 was prim and proper and well behaved. Personality #2 was wild and lascivious.
If you think that primitive tribalism is something that exists only in isolated areas like Spin Ghar Afghanistan. This story is about a family in East Texas that has lived peacefully, but in open defiance of local, state and federal laws.
The danger Fox News poses to America is not that it is a biased or partisan arm of the Republican Party, as the Obama Administration contends.
Let's cut right to the chase: Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Casino Royale) has publicly, blisteringly, bridge-burningly split from the Church of Scientology after 35 quiet years as a member. True, he was nowhere near the religion's most f …
Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," as they repeatedly chant the president's name and celebrate his accomplishments.
if you watch the Ann Curry Interview you should remember the comments about the return of the 12 Iman, and the Mahdi. This is the link to a youtube video that gives insight into that comment.
PAPUA New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult who promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex.
Police in Papua New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult who promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they had sex in public.
There have been at least two seeds on Newsvine so far that quote Lyndon LaRouche's LPAC web site to support the venomous lie that health care reform would lead to euthanasia.
The Church of Scientology is launching a TV ad campaign in Tampa Bay this week.
"For many, sushi is a tasty way to break free from the tyranny of bland, generic American cuisine. But wait just a minute Ms. Sashimi! Before you have another bite, realize this: When you dine on sushi, you dine with the Reverend Moon!"
This article is a couple of years old, but still well worth reading, especially since there was an item from LaRouche's blog posted on this site a few days ago, and a number of people were taking it quite seriously.
The Satanist cult that has colonized mankind is meeting this week at Bohemian Grove 80 miles north of San Francisco. Over 2000 members – the political, corporate, cultural and military elite of the world — will be gathered for Satanic rituals, possibly including human ritu …
Social networking (Net 2.0) will not supersede what we call "Organized Religion" but it certainly re-organizes it and re-defines it. One of the major societal phenomena that are developing in our world of cyberspace is the creation and development of the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY.
The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds.
In an interview with "20/20's" John Stossel, Fox's' Glenn Beck talked about his alcoholism & conversion to Mormonism in order to have sex with his present wife, who is Mormon.
Scientology: A Sociological Perspective By Sarah Frances Round
Ray Kurtzweil envisions a good future in the melding of man and machine. He is described as leading a cult of Singularity followers. What do you think?
IT'S Easter, but judging from some of the photographs in the world's media this weekend, one could be forgiven for thinking hallowe'en had arrived a lot earlier than scheduled.
A woman who believes she was being stalked by a cult has been charged with stabbing her 2-year-old daughter 100 times with scissors.
A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane.
Members of One Mind Ministries drew little notice in the working-class Baltimore neighborhood where they lived in a nondescript brick rowhouse. But inside, prosecutors say, horrors were unfolding:
The faithful lined up, two to three deep at the bar, looking like Druids in electric-blue fleece. Tim Jester and Brian Griffiths, two young San Francisco guys in polo shirts, leaned against a railing, surveying the scene.
CLEARWATER — A mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, its Flag Service Organization and three parishioners, claiming they brought about her son's death by denying him access to his antidepression medication.