: | 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…
: | 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…
: | 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…
: | Rova | Duncan Garner | From Centrepoint to Gloriavale, some of our most notorious cults will be in the spotlight at ‘Decult’ – Australasia’s first cult awareness conference. It is taking place in Christchurch later this year – the brainchild of investigative journalist and author Anke Richter. Experts and…
: | The Press | Philip Mathews | Janja Lalich lives in northern California, across the bay from San Francisco. An ideal spot, you might think, for a specialist on cults. This is where some of the worst flourished. There was Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and, further down the coast, Charles Manson’s Family and…
: | The Press | Phillip Matthews | Is New Zealand a little bit culty? That question will be asked at the International Cultic Studies Association conference in Barcelona, Spain, next month. That may not be how New Zealand likes to see itself on the world stage. Yet it indicates how…
: | Scoop Business | Plains FM 96.9 | Cult Chat has won Best Community Access Programme for 2024 at the NZ Radio and Podcast Awards announced in Auckland last night (6 June 2024). Christchurch-based co-host Dr. Caroline Ansley runs the Centrepoint Restoration Project and along with Lindy Jacomb from Olive Leaf Network…
: | Sunday Star Times | Joanne Naish | Donations for a documentary on Australasia’s first cult awareness conference in Christchurch this year have reached more than half of the directors’ target in just two days. Christchurch film-makers Robyn Jordaan and Caleb MacDonald are crowdfunding to create a documentary about the Decult…
: | Newshub| | RNZ | Amy Williams | Warning: This story discusses details of sexual abuse A New Zealand woman who as a child was sexually abused by a member of a secretive sect under investigation by the FBI says the religious group’s leaders spent three years trying to get the man…
: | RNZ | Amy Williams | Former members of a secretive sect under investigation by the FBI for historical child sexual abuse warn it is a highly controlling and insular group with many unwritten rules. The religious group has about 2500 members and 60 ministers in New Zealand, meets in…
