What’s the line between a religion and a cult? It involves money, no doubt. And control over who you can see and what you can say. And a narcissistic leader too. But the line still can get fuzzy ...

While the World Mission Society Church of God has strongly rejected that label, a number of former congregants say the ...

The harrowing story of followers of a Malindi-based Pastor starving themselves to death in order to 'meet their maker' has caught the country by storm. Pastor Paul Mackenzie, the founder of Good News ...

Brooke Walker grew up in an Arizona church community. Families, side by side, in communion with God and each other. But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years, ...

Religious cults don’t always wear black robes or tell you to get chicken blood. In a country plagued by poverty and hardship, promises of instant miracles and supernatural wealth are a powerful lure.

If it looks like a cult and quacks like a ...

I had been a member of the Children of God for two decades, but was growing disillusioned with its controlling behaviour and worrying sexual practices. Then I heard Michael Stipe’s lyrics and was set ...