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Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his associates face charges of murder, torture, and terrorism in Kenya.

Police in Kenya on Monday reported they have recovered at least 58 bodies from forest land occupied by the Good News International Church, a cult whose members believed they could ascend to Heaven by starving themselves.

An Arizona polygamist has been accused of having 20 wives, including his own daughter and several underage girls, with one as young as nine.

A former Google contractor claims that he was fired by the woke internet giant after reporting that at least 12 members of an obscure religious sect within Google have an inappropriate level of influence over the workplace. The religious group in question, the Fellowship of Friends, is considered a cult by many.

Rep. Gallagher blasted Fauci after he attacked Republican politicians and referred to himself as science’s lone representative, accusing the renowned doctor of acting as “leader of a quasi-religious cult” while calling for his resignation.

China watchdog organization Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday that Chinese security forces conducted a massive crackdown against the Church of Almighty God (CAG) in the northern province of Shanxi over the past two weeks. State security officials said over a thousand arrests were made in the interest of “maintaining social order” during the Chinese Communist Party’s centennial celebration.

A New York Times op-ed published on Tuesday warned that a surge in crime in Democrat-run cities, in large part due to defunding police campaigns

The Atlantic claimed that Republicans —  like the last Soviet-era holdouts in the Kremlin — are “growing more aggressive and paranoid” as the “dying” Republican Party is described as “more of a danger to the United States than to the world.”

Jamie Raskin claimed Trump remains a “threat to the American public” and is likely to “destroy the Republican Party” due to “his authoritarianism and his determination to remain a cult leader.”

The interview was titled “‘So Many Great, Educated, Functional People Were Brainwashed’: Can Trump’s Cult of Followers Be Deprogrammed?”

A court in Istanbul sentenced Turkish sex cult leader Adnan Oktar to more than 1,075 years in prison on Monday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders inaugurated a new “anti-Cult Disneyland” in eastern China last week as part of a campaign targeting religious minorities, Bitter Winter reported Monday.

Police in southwestern China this summer sentenced a Christian teenager to three years in prison for practicing her faith, human rights magazine Bitter Winter revealed on Tuesday.

Some South Korean officials on Monday asked for murder charges to be brought against Lee Man-hee, founder and leader of a religious sect called the Shincheonji Church, and 11 of his top followers because they spread the Wuhan coronavirus across the country and interfered with efforts to track infected persons. The government believes up to 60% of South Korea’s 4,335 coronavirus cases can be traced to the Shincheonji Church.

Federal informant Lawrence Ray, the father of a Sarah Lawrence College student, was arrested by the FBI Tuesday on charges including sex trafficking.

CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter on Sunday provided a platform to Steven Hassan — an author and self-proclaimed expert on “cults” — allowing him to go unchallenged when he claimed President Donald Trump is the leader of a “destructive cult.”

Former Facebook employees compared the company to a “cult,” in interviews with CNBC, with one declaring, “Even if you are fucking miserable, you need to act like you love this place.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden told Democrats at Cal State Fullerton on Thursday that supporters of President Donald Trump have a “cultish devotion” to their leader, choosing “party over country” in supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh.