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The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (or MSIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit religious corporation, incorporated in California on June 25, 1971. Before incorporation, the group was founded in California in 1968 by John-Roger (formerly Roger Delano Hinkins).
The Order of Christ Sophia (OCS) is an organization that was founded in 1999, went through a major reorganization in 2012 and was disbanded in 2017. The OCS described itself as a holy order and spiritual school that offers training in the doctrines of Christian mysticism . [ 1 ]
Krishna Venta (1911–1958), born Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco, founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley, California in the late 1940s. In 1948 he stated that he was Christ, the new messiah and claimed to have led a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet Neophrates.
The mother of three “Soldiers of Christ” members, who were arrested in Duluth, Georgia after a decomposed body was found in the trunk of a car, has also been charged with murder. Mihee Lee, 54 ...
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.
Officials with the International Churches of Christ and International Christian Church declined to comment on the allegations. Church leaders concealed sexual abuse of young children, lawsuits ...
A growing number of them--as well as some academics--call it a cult that entraps its mostly well-educated members with a false promise of spiritual evolution." [ 1 ] In 2006, an attendee at a Fellowship of Friends prospective student meeting wrote a report of his experience and posted it on a WordPress site. [ 11 ]
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti.