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The Cult Information Centre was founded in 1987 by Ian Haworth, [8] [9] [10] who had previously been involved with the Council on Mind Abuse, and gained charitable status in the United Kingdom in 1992.
The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an anti-cult organization founded by deprogrammer Ted Patrick [1] that provided information on groups it considered "cults", as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers. [2] [3] [4] It operated (initially under the name “Citizens’ Freedom Foundation”) from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s in the ...
Jan Groenveld (1945 – 22 October 2002) was an Australian Christian countercult activist. She was a member of the Latter-day Saints Church and the Jehovah's Witnesses. [1] [2] She spent fifteen years in these and other organisations before leaving them in 1975 and resolving to make more information about what she saw as "cults" available to the general public.
The Family Survival Trust evolved from FAIR (Family, Action, Information, Rescue), Britain's first anti-cult group. [2] [3] FAIR was founded in 1976 by MP Paul Rose, as a support group for friends and relatives of "cult" members, [2] with an early focus on the Unification Church, although in the years following this focus expanded to include other new religious movements (NRMs) or what it ...
Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Patrick, Jr. (born 1930) is an American deprogrammer and author. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of deprogramming." [1] [2]In the 1970s, Patrick and other anti-cult activists founded the Citizens' Freedom Foundation (which later became known as the Cult Awareness Network) and began offering what they called "deprogramming" services to people who wanted a ...
The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist [1] and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries" [2]) and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.
Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of ...
Ian Haworth (born c. 1947) is an English anti-cultist.Originally from Lancashire, England, he moved to and lived in Toronto, Canada, in late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. [1] [2] He returned to England in 1987 and founded the Cult Information Centre, an anti-cult organization.