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Heaven and Hell: The Dark Truth Behind NZ’s Centrepoint & Gloriavale Cults
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Heaven and Hell: The Dark Truth Behind NZ’s Centrepoint & Gloriavale Cults

May 3, 2025: | Award Ceremony and More | Step inside two of New Zealand’s most notorious communities—Centrepoint and Gloriavale. This video explores the disturbing realities behind their promises of utopia, revealing stories of control, manipulation, and abuse from those who lived through it. Featuring survivor testimonies and documentary footage from Heaven and…
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The Dark Truth of Gloriavale: A New Zealand Cult
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The Dark Truth of Gloriavale: A New Zealand Cult

March 10, 2025: | Mystery Shack | Step inside one of the world’s most secretive and controversial religious communities—Gloriavale. Hidden deep in New Zealand’s remote wilderness, this isolated Christian sect has faced shocking allegations of control, manipulation, and abuse. But how did it all begin? And why do people stay? In this deep…
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New Zealand government’s shameful modern slavery shutdown
Articles, Cults and Sects

New Zealand government’s shameful modern slavery shutdown

November 21, 2024: | The Daily Blog | Ian Powell – Guest Blog | Slaves had existed in both ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. However, the word ‘slavery’ has a subsequent Latin origin, ‘sclava’, meaning “Slavonic captive in reference to the 9th-century slavery of Slavonic people. Over time it came to mean…
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From Cult to Hope: Experts and former members to speak in Timaru
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From Cult to Hope: Experts and former members to speak in Timaru

October 30, 2024: | Timaru Herald | Rachel Comer | Australasia’s first cult conference has had a spin-off for Timaru with an international expert and Gloriavale leavers to speak on the long-lasting impact of breaking free. From Cult To Hope, the first event of its kind in the region, will be held on…
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Gloriavale children harmed by decades of government inaction – leavers
Articles, Cults and Sects

Gloriavale children harmed by decades of government inaction – leavers

October 21, 2024: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | Gloriavale leavers and their advocates have condemned what they say is 30 years of inaction by bureaucrats and politicians, warning the Christian community’s 400 children remain at risk of harm. Speaking at the Decult conference in Christchurch on Sunday, lawyer Dennis Gates also called…
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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult
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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

October 10, 2024: | Banana Island Films | In this special episode of the Decult Takeover Series, I’m joined by Liz Gregory, the founder of the Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust, who plays a crucial role in helping survivors of the notorious Gloriavale Christian Community in New Zealand. Liz and her work are featured…
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Changing the c-word: Cult survivors on sensationalism and stigma
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Changing the c-word: Cult survivors on sensationalism and stigma

October 3, 2024: | RNZ | Anke Richter | Opinion – Cults are a hot topic – from Netflix to the High Court – but the stereotypes that come with them can hurt their victims. Survivor-focused reporting will be addressed at the upcoming Decult Conference in Christchurch. The Press recently ran the headline ‘Burger joint with cult-like following closes’. It took me…
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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult
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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

October 3, 2024: | Banana Island Films | Interviewee in the new film Escaping Utopia – and founder of Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust joined me in the Decult Takeover series for the ramp up to Decult Cult Awareness Conference in Christchurch New Zealand. Get your live stream tickets now for the Decult Cult…
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Sect minister who has admitted child sex abuse was allowed to continue home meetings
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Sect minister who has admitted child sex abuse was allowed to continue home meetings

September 25, 2024: | RNZ | Amy Easton | Members of an underground sect probed by the FBI want to know how a man with a reputation for being a sexual predator was allowed to continue with the group’s home meetings. The former minister of the cult – known as the Two by…
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New Zealand Uncovers Historic Abuse in Church-Run Institutions
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New Zealand Uncovers Historic Abuse in Church-Run Institutions

August 16, 2024: | Christianity Today | Isabel Ong | Survivors, advocates, and pastors call for “true repentance” among religious groups that ran schools and homes between 1950 and 1999. Over the next few years, Tagaloa began piecing together long-buried memories and came to recognize that she had been sexually abused between the ages of…
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