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Malaysia: 500+ children rescued from Islamic cult operating as a business group, children of ’employees’ were sexually abused and kept without education

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2024

The Al Arqam sect was started by an Islamic leader named Ashaari Mohamad. The government of Malaysia had banned the group back in 1994 calling them a heretical and deviant cult.

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‘Starve yourself to meet Jesus’: Christian cult leader in Kenya charged with murder of 191 children

ANI - 7 February, 2024

Mackenzie, who ran the Good News International Church, is accused of leading a doomsday cult where he instructed his mass followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could reach heaven.

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France: Romanian yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru, 40 others arrested in sexual exploitation charges, the ‘porno-yoga’ promoter aimed to have sex with 1,000 virgins

OpIndia Staff - 30 November, 2023

41 people including Romanian yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru arrested after tantric yoga group accused of sex abuse in France.

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Aravindan Balakrishnan and his Maoist cult in London: The sordid tale of exploitation, abuse and brainwashing

Jinit Jain - 6 September, 2021

Katy Davies, daughter of Balakrishnan, recently spoke about her harrowing experience inside the cult headed by her biological father Aravindan Balakrishnan.