The Cult Education Institute

10/19/2026

https://www.reuters.com/world/kenyan-starvation-cult-leader-found-guilty-murder-190-children-one-adult-2026-10-19/

A Kenyan court on Monday found starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of 190 children and one adult in one of the world's worst cult-related disasters in recent history.

10/19/2026

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/10/19/5M3N4SB56BC23LETL4IAAGKA24/

Court Grants Bail to Unification Church Leader Han Hak-ja Residence Restricted to Hospital, 200 Million Won Deposit, No Contact With Case Figures

10/19/2026

https://news.sbs.co.kr/amp/news.amp?news_id=N1008804860

10/19/2026

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-19/elizabeth-struhs-inquest/107282646

A coroners court has heard details of Kerrie Struhs's meeting with a probation officer less than a month before her daughter Elizabeth died of untreated diabetes in 2022.

10/19/2026

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1537185/kenyan-cult-leader-faces-verdict-over-shakahola.html

A Mombasa court will deliver a long-awaited verdict on Monday in the trial of a self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher and his associates, accused of murdering 191 people, mostly children, in an infamous starvation cult .

10/19/2026

https://m.ajupress.com/amp/20261019143151838

SEOUL, October 19 (AJP) - Cult leader Jung Myug-seok was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Monday for sexually assaulting and molesting female followers.The Daejeon District Court found the 81-year-old founder of religious sect Jesus Morning Star (JMS) guilty of sexually assaulting and molesting 16...

10/18/2026

https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20261018-shakahola-families-still-searching-for-their-dead-as-judgment-nears

A court in Mombasa, Kenya, will on Monday deliver a long-awaited verdict in the Shakahola sect murder trial. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed pastor, is accused of forcing church members, including…

10/18/2026

https://www.cleveland19.com/2026/10/17/deadly-devotion-kirtland-cult-murders-full-documentary/

More than three decades after the murder of the Avery family by Jeffrey Lundgren, the people touched by the case are still carrying what happened.

10/17/2026

VIDEOs of brainwashed congregants kneeling as they present tithes to their pastor spark a buzz - Churches should be regulated

10/17/2026

https://www.aol.com/articles/anne-gollert-hills-family-helped-211700000.html

Anne Gollert Hill spent 20 years in Scientology before walking away with almost nothing and turning to her family for help.