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Archives 2000 July - December



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    2000

  • December 28, 2000 Atkins Denied Parole Again, Associated Press via Yahoo! News (News on former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins.)
  • December 16, 2000 Former members of Oregon cult plead guilty to wiretapping charges, Associated Press via Oregon Live (News on Rajneeshee/Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.)
  • December 13, 2000 Sect member fed son secretly, lawyer said Boston Globe (News from Attleboro.)
  • December 7, 2000 Members of Muslim Cult Sentenced Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • December 7, 2000 Kenya Haunted By Strange Sect, Panafrican News Agency via allAfrica.com (Includes news on the "Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God")
  • December 4, 2000 A nightmare life left by a cult's dream of love, asahi.com
  • November 27, 2000 On TV 20/20 Downtown reports on acts of violence and abuse in boarding schools run by the Hare Krishna movement.
  • November 26, 2000 The sect, The Boston Globe (News from Attleboro.)
  • November 21, 2000 "Cults on Campus" On TV The Boston affiliate of the WB network, channel 56
  • November 19, 2000 Legal opinions vary on sect case, The Boston Globe (News from Attleboro.)
  • November 18, 2000 Today In History, (News on Jonestown, Guyana.)
  • November 18, 2000 Mass. cult attorney may defend 2nd client from sect Boston Herald
  • November 15, 2000 On TV On the Inside: Doomsday Cults Discovery Channel (Experience the psychological manipulation used to attract members of doomsday cults like Waco, Heaven's Gate and Jonestown.)
  • November 15, 2000 Attleboro sect members held on bail, The Boston Globe
  • November 14, 2000 Honohana must foot 100 million yen in damages, Japan Times (News on Honohana Sampogyo.)
    November 13, 2000 Foot-reading cult ordered to pay for fraud, Ananova (News on Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo.)
  • November 13, 2000 Sect Members Face Murder Charges, The Associated Press via CBS News (News on Jacques Robidoux.)
  • November 13, 2000 Japanese Cult Ordered To Pay $926K, Associated Press via Yahoo! News (News on Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo.)
  • November 8, 2000 Students Caught In College Cults, WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida

    College campuses across the U.S. have become targets of a variety of cults...


  • November 8, 2000 Event - "Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves" - Lesley News, Lesley University (Steven Hassan, one of the country's most well-known cult counselors, will speak and sign copies of his new book at Lesley...)
  • November 7, 2000 The Way International reaches settlement with couple, Wapakoneta Daily News
  • November 3, 2000 Religious cults active on campus, Miami Hurricane, University of Miami (...To combat the activity of cults, Lortie, along with the Dean of Students Office, the Department of Student Life, and the Division of Student Affairs issued a new warning poster that is now posted throughout campus. The poster reads, "'Cane Alert: CULT groups are actively recruiting on college campuses now."...)
  • October 28, 2000 Parents fear local man, woman joined cult, The Garden Island (Group nicknamed 'garbage eaters' active across U.S.)
  • October 27, 2000 Speaker Explains Visual Deception, The Daily Tar Heel, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • October 27, 2000 DSS keeps custody of cultists' 4 children, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro, Massachusetts.)
  • October 27, 2000 Judge sets hearing on return of infant to couple in sect, The Boston Globe (News from Attleboro, Massachusetts.)
  • October 26, 2000 DA claims strong case vs. cult, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro, Massachusetts.)
  • October 25, 2000 Cops find cult kids' burial site, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro, Massachusetts.)
  • October 24, 2000 Honohana cultists admit to fraud, The Japan Times
  • October 24, 2000 Helping Uncover A Sect Crime, CBS News (News on David Corneau and Jacques Robidoux from Massachusetts.)
  • October 23, 2000 Easy Targets, Steamtunnels via the Wayback Machine (How Cults Recruit on Campus.)
  • October 20, 2000 Cults on campus Dr. Laura, via TVEyes.com via the Wayback Machine
  • October 19, 2000 Drive-thru Deliverance, Phoenix New Times (News on Landmark Education/est/the Forum.) (The news item above mentioned the Cult Awareness Network. Read the following article for more information on the Cult Awareness Network.) December 19, 1996 Group that once criticized Scientologists now owned by one, CNN.com)
  • October 18, 2000 Hearing slated on cult baby's future, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro.)
  • October 16, 2000 Buses roll into Washington as Million Family March begins, Associated Press via CNN.com (Farrakhan said he knew people would question his alliance with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church is a major sponsor of the march...)
  • October 15, 2000 Church Calls March Partnership A Step to Multiracial Movement, Washington Post (Leaders of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church say their partnership with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam has produced a...)
  • October 14, 2000 Uproar after Moonies buy town, BBC (The Unification Church of the Reverend Sung Myung Moon...)
  • October 14, 2000 Foot-cult followers file damages lawsuit, The Japan Times (News on Honohana Sanpogyo and Hogen Fukunaga.)
  • October 13, 2000 Million Family March set for Monday USA TODAY (...Unification Church members will be riding chartered planes and buses to attend the march along with Nation of Islam members...)
  • October 12, 2000 Fraud trial of cult leader Fukunaga, 9 others begins - TOKYO Kyodo News (News on Hogen Fukunaga and Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo.)
  • October 11, 2000 March Plans Pick Up Pace, Washington Post (Throughout the District, people are involved in preparations for the march, called for by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and supported by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church.)
  • October 1, 2000 The gurus who fell from grace, The Age, Melbourne, Australia (News on David and Jennifer Trow )
  • October 2000 Cults, Student Xpress (...While there are exceptions, cults tend to look for intelligent people who are well educated and/or well read, curious, idealistic and unafraid of being classified as different...cults target people of all ages, not only teenagers...)
  • September 25, 2000 On TV Texas Stand-off, JOHN QUINONES, 20/20 Downtown, ABCNEWS (News on John Joe Gray/Photo.)
  • September 20, 2000 Former Way president stripped of clergy title, Wapakoneta Daily News via the Wayback Machine (News on The Way International.)
  • September 17, 2000 On TV On the Inside: Doomsday Cults Discovery Channel
  • September 14, 2000 SJC nixes suit aimed at freeing cult mom, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro)
  • September 12, 2000 The battle over bio-terror, Salon.com (Aum Shinrikyo, Rajneesh and Osama bin Laden in the news.)
  • September 12, 2000 Group Founded by Sun Myung Moon Preaches Sexual Abstinence in China, The New York Times (Free registration required.) (News on the Unification Church and the International Educational Foundation.)
  • September 11-18, 2000 Curtailing cults in Canada..., Issues & Experts, Simon Fraser University (...cult experts...Barry Beyerstein...joins Vancouver social worker Julia Biersteker and medical ethicist Alister Browne of UBC and Langara College in a panel discussion on cults and the need to curtail their activities...)
  • September 8, 2000 SJC to rule on cult mother case: Pregnant pause may bring prison birth, Boston Herald (News from Attleboro)
  • August 31, 2000 Gun siege as liberty cult defies US laws, The Times (News on John Joe Gray)
  • August 30, 2000 Waiting game in shadow of Waco, The Washington Post via MSNBC.COM (News on John Joe Gray)
  • August 28, 2000 How To Identify A Cult, Christian Courier (The International Church of Christ was mentioned.)
  • August 13, 2000 Switzerland to open first public information centre on cults, BBC via IndustryWatch (Includes news on the Solar Temple)
  • August 3, 1999 On campus, join carefully, Christian Science Monitor (Includes information on the International Churches of Christ and Heaven's Gate.)
  • August 2000 A '60s Hippie Cult Kid On Coping In 2000, Glamour magazine (Includes news on Synanon)
  • July 30, 2000 Parents Day shows links of Moon's church to GOP, Mobile Register (News on Unification Church)
  • July 26, 2000 Clinton calls Waco 'terrible mistake' The Seattle Times
  • July 25, 2000 Group Calls For Abstinence, 'Pure Love' Youths on Summer Tour Marching, Performing The Columbus Dispatch (News on Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and Pure Love Alliance)
  • July 21, 2000 Chicago Schools Bar Sexual Abstinence Advocacy Group, Washington Post (News on Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and Pure Love Alliance.)
  • July 20, 2000 Teens rally to promote abstinence, Chicago Sun-Times (News on Unification Church and Pure Love Alliance)
  • July 14, 2000 Schools warned over cults, BBC
  • July 13, 2000 Schools hit `cult' sex-ed class Chicago Sun-Times (News on Unification Church and Pure Love Alliance)
  • July 11, 2000 Deprogramming the faithful, BBC