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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…

Articles, Videos

Zion & Gloriana’s Story: A Journey from Control to Christ

April 15, 2025: | Sanctuary | Dave Mann | What happens when faith collides with freedom? Dave Mann, from Shining Light Trust shares the emotional and spiritual journey of a couple who left Gloriavale—and found Christ anew. Their story, now a ‪@nzshinetv‬ documentary, is one of healing, forgiveness, and a deeper, freer walk…

Articles, Cults and Sects, Videos

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…

Articles, Videos

An Arranged Marriage! – Zion and Gloriana’s Gloriavale story

March 6, 2025: | Hope Project NZ | After 25 years in their arranged marriage at Gloriavale, while Zion and Gloriana still loved each other very much, they realised they could no longer agree with the vows they once made. Born into the reclusive Gloriavale community in New Zealand, Zion and Gloriana entered…

Articles, Videos

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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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…

Articles, Videos

“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…

Articles, Videos

Life as a teen after leaving Gloriavale

February 10, 2025: | TVNZ | “At about 10 years old, I imagined life outside Gloriavale would look sad and I wouldn’t have any friends … but that’s not true at all.” Angel Pilgrim was 13 years old when she left Gloriavale with her 12 siblings and parents. Now she’s 17, living in…

Articles, Royal Commission, Videos

Ex-Gloriavale member left feeling sick after leader’s public apology | Stuff.co.nz

January 19, 2025: | Stuff | A former member of Gloriavale says an apology from leader Howard Temple for historic sexual abuse in the community made him feel physically sick. Temple told Gloriavale members he was sorry for their pain and suffering and admitted past leaders didn’t keep them safe. The public apology…

Articles, Videos

Former Gloriavale members want compensation following court ruling

November 22, 2024: | 1News | Ryan Boswell | A former Gloriavale member wants to be paid for his years of work in the West Coast commune to end what he calls exploitative practices against residents. Hosea Courage spoke to 1News as the Employment Court made a new ruling that could pave the…

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

Zion & Gloriana’s Story: A Journey from Control to Christ

The Dark Truth of Gloriavale: A New Zealand Cult

An Arranged Marriage! – Zion and Gloriana’s Gloriavale story

Gloriavale Escapee Answers Questions from Instagram!

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

“How Cults Control Women”, Recover From Coercive Control

Life as a teen after leaving Gloriavale

Ex-Gloriavale member left feeling sick after leader’s public apology | Stuff.co.nz

Former Gloriavale members want compensation following court ruling

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