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Surviving Gloriavale: Former member Theophila Pratt on life inside closed community

March 4, 2025: | The Post | Theophila Pratt | When people find out Theophila Pratt was once a member of Gloriavale they often ask, why did you choose that life? In her new memoir, Unveiled, she explains that living in the isolated community was never a choice, and in this extract, how…

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Gloriavale Escapee Answers Questions from Instagram!

March 4, 2025: | Dom Harvey Podcast | 27 year old Theo Pratt spent the first 18 years of her life in the Gloriavale cult. When she left as a young adult, she turned her back on everything she’d ever known since birth. When I announced on Instagram that Theo was joining me…

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Unveiled: Theophila Pratt’s story of surviving Gloriavale

March 3, 2025: | RNZ | Nine to Noon | At age 18 Theophila Pratt was dropped at a bus stop in Greymouth – bound ultimately for a place called Auckland, that she’d heard of, but couldn’t place on a map. As her mother drove away, she told Theo the decision she’d just made…

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Gloriavale Survivor – Exposing Abuse & Cult in India, Consequences of Leaving

March 2, 2025: | The Dom Harvey Podcast | At just 18 years old, Theo Pratt made the terrifying decision to leave the Gloriavale cult and everything she’d ever known—her family, her home, her entire way of life- absolutely everything she had known since birth. She was dropped at a bus stop with…

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De-banking restrictions back on the table?

February 24, 2025: | Bell Gully | Tim Fitzgerald, Julian Brown & Tristan Hutchinson | Parliament is to consider a Bill that would prohibit banks from refusing to provide services to customers, or treating customers less favourably than would otherwise be the case, based on environmental, social, or governance considerations, including the industry…

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Duncan Webb: Labour MP for Christchurch Central

February 24, 2025: | Facebook | Today I popped down to Timaru to meet with the team at Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust. The work they do is extensive, broad and incredibly important. From supporting leavers into accommodation and work to supplying them with counselling, driving lessons and educational courses, the Trust works hard…

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“How Cults Control Women”, Recover From Coercive Control

February 22, 2025: | Recover from Coercive Control | Renee Spencer| Patriarchy is a powerful tool for control, and cults know it. In this video, we break down how patriarchal structures are weaponised in cults to suppress, manipulate, and control women-using the infamous Gloriavale community as a case study. Gloriavale, a reclusive Christian…

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Debanking in New Zealand: Lessons from Gloriavale

February 20, 2025: | MinterEllisonRuddWatts | Richard Gordon; Alex Church | In this episode, Litigation Partner, Richard Gordon talks to Senior Associate, Alex Church, about the outcome of a recent Court of Appeal case, Bank of New Zealand v The Christian Church Community Trust and others, commonly known as the Gloriavale case. Together they discuss the implications…

Articles, Gloriavale Film/Docuseries

Co-founder of ‘Real Handmaid’s Tale’ cult reveals disgusting reason he decided to quit the community

February 18, 2025: | Lad Bible | Michael Slavin | The new BBC documentary Escaping Utopia has detailed what it was like inside the Gloriavale cult Warning: The following article contains discussion of child sex abuse that some readers may find disturbing The co-founder of a cult described as the ‘real Handmaid’s Tale’ has…

Articles, Gloriavale Film/Docuseries

Forget The Handmaid’s Tale, this real-life Kiwi cult is even creepier

February 17, 2025: | Daily Mail | Christopher Stevens | Liz Gregory likes to call herself ‘the Devil’. A committed Christian, she has devoted her life to helping refugees from a cult, whose leaders regard her as the embodiment of Satan. With an infectious laugh, Liz holds up her fingers to her forehead…

Surviving Gloriavale: Former member Theophila Pratt on life inside closed community

Gloriavale Escapee Answers Questions from Instagram!

Unveiled: Theophila Pratt’s story of surviving Gloriavale

Gloriavale Survivor – Exposing Abuse & Cult in India, Consequences of Leaving

De-banking restrictions back on the table?

Duncan Webb: Labour MP for Christchurch Central

“How Cults Control Women”, Recover From Coercive Control

Debanking in New Zealand: Lessons from Gloriavale

Co-founder of ‘Real Handmaid’s Tale’ cult reveals disgusting reason he decided to quit the community

Forget The Handmaid’s Tale, this real-life Kiwi cult is even creepier

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