May 21, 2000 Steven Hassan will speak at California Institute of Technology - the author of the critically acclaimed Combatting Cult Mind Control and his most recent book is Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves.
May 16, 2000 Washington paper linked to Unification Church acquires UPI, CNN.com
May 15, 2000Mother overcomes odds to raise family, By Rachael Hanel, The Free Press (...Gail became a follower of Rama Behera...The cult was officially known as Followers of the Lord Jesus...)
May 15, 2000 Unification Church Arm Acquires UPI, Reuters
May 1, 2000 On TV Channel 4 News Los Angeles Tonight 11pm will include segment on cults.
April 30, 2000 Cults on rise, researchers agree, TRIBnet.com
April 26, 2000 NBC revives ``The '70s'' Reuters (CultsOnCampus.com does not recommend the kidnapping of anyone.)
April 26, 2000 Family foundation will examine 'cults' News Tribune
April 22, 2000 On TV FOX Cable News: Beyond the News: Joining a Cult, April 19 marked the seventh anniversary of the Waco tragedy. Thousands of people still join cults every year. Who are they and why do they do it?
Saturday 9:30 p.m. ET Repeated on Sunday at 1:30 a.m., 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. ET
On TV April 19, 2000 David Koresh: Preacher of Fire, AandE.com
April 11, 2000A twisted type of faith, Joey Engelberg, Daily Trojan Viewpoint, University of Southern California
(Posted April 10, 2000 to the CultsOnCampus.com Web site) Cults on Campus Poll by CPNet.com
April 5, 2000Experts point out dangers, warning signs of cult involvement, Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University
(Cult experts Ronald Loomis and Kyle Degge presented their informative lecture, "Cults: Fact or Fiction" to a packed Mountainlair Ballroom...The presentation was part of three-day seminar sponsored by The President’s Office for Social Justice.
Loomis didn’t waste any time answering the question he believed was at the forefront of the audience's mind.
"Most of you came here with one particular question—are there cults on this campus? Yes, there are."
According to Loomis, cults on the WVU campus include The International Church of Christ, The Way, the Roberts Group, The Edification Church and a Japanese Buddhist group.
Loomis was quick to mention that his intent was not to label these groups, but to educate people about them...)
April 5, 2000 Jonestown Survivors Remember, Associated Press
April 5, 2000There are cults among us, The Dominion Post (Includes information on the International Church of Christ/ICOC and The Roberts Group/Jim Roberts.)
BBC News (...Kristina Jones, who grew up in a cult, offers her impressions to BBC News Online...
...Groups who actively recruit are devious. They sell themselves well and appear highly attractive...
...David Berg, the founder of the Children of God - the group my parents joined - started out by feeding and helping the dropouts of society...
...The key lesson to draw from all of this is that it is vital for families of the cult recruits or potential recruits to provide them with love and support.) (Photo of Kristina Jones included.)
March 18, 2000When devotion means death, BBC (Includes News On Jonestown, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate and The Order of the Solar Temple) (Photos included.)
March 17-19, 2000 Leo J. Ryan Foundation to Hold Cult Education Conference in Stamford, SOURCE: Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation, Inc.
March 13, 2000A push becomes a shove, U.S.News & World Report (Colleges get uneasy about proselytizing...
...Still, experts say the label has nothing to do with radical beliefs and everything to do with behavior. Each of the estimated 3,000 cults in this country has a unique ideology, but they all share certain worrisome traits. Students are particularly easy prey...)
February 23, 2000 FBI Issues 'Routine' Terror-Threat Advisory, APBnews.com
February 21, 2000Cults a growing campus epidemic, by Kimberly A. Brehm,
Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College Chicago (...These are the college students that campus cults target. There is a rising epidemic of cults that recruit strictly from college campuses. These cults realize college students are experiencing feelings of total isolation from family and friends and are looking for a group to identify with and emulate...
There are two dominant campus cults existing in America today. One is known as the International Church of Christ (ICC) and the other is called the Maranatha Campus Ministries (MCM). While the two groups have opposing teachings of the Bible, they are very similar in the tactics used to control their members...)
February 28, 2000Cults on Campus, The Chronicle Mailbag, Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College Chicago
February 13, 2000 Rev. Moon Marries 20,000 People, Associated Press
February 4, 2000Enroth hosts cult slideshow, The Horizon, Westmont College (...Dr. Ronald Enroth of the Sociology Department, an expert on cults, led the presentation...)
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