What Abdul Karim didn’t realise was that the group was part of a local chapter of the Hasan Anak Rimau cult, one of many in the country that deviate from mainstream Islamic teachings.

The idea builds on Murad Mahmudov’s viral “Memecoin Supercycle” thesis that likens memecoin communities to cults. Goodalexander told his 74,000 followers that AI-created memes are ...

The 'prophet' who founded a sect called The Message hailed this Arizona trailer park as an ideal community in the 1960s.

Those followers have included a series of men who used Branham’s teachings to form destructive cults. The back wall of the tabernacle’s pulpit featured a portrait of Jesus Christ on one side ...

It's scary to think about, but you might fall for a cult. Just ask "One Tree Hill" actress Bethany Joy Lenz. Lenz spent 10 years in a religious cult she calls the "Big House Family" – something ...

"One Tree Hill" star Bethany Joy Lenz is still grappling with leaving the cult that controlled her life for a decade. "There’s something really powerful in putting things out in the open and ...

When the cult French film "La Haine" came out 30 years ago, it sent shockwaves through the world of French cinema. The movie has now been adapted for a musical; our reporters went to La Seine ...

A figure whose nickname happens to be, appropriately enough, “Blessed.” Somehow, he has emerged as a kind of cult figure. A champion, the holder of the BMF title, a real life “warrior,” as ...

Here's who tried to warn her about it Bethany Joy Lenz, 43, has opened up about her decade spent deeply entrenched in a Christian cult while also starring on One Tree Hill in her memoir Dinner For ...

It hasn’t been easy, but Bethany Joy Lenz has managed to reestablish her connection with faith after a decade in a religious cult. In the book, Lenz, who was raised Christian, detailed what she ...

In college, my daughter went off the rails. She joined a cult that didn’t believe in modern medicine and stopped taking her depression medication. Everything went wrong. She refused to see her ...

Yoshihiro Inoue Inoue joined the cult as a high school student and was a close aide to its leader. He was held responsible for the deaths of 15 people in a number of crimes committed by Aum ...