California
In New York, cult expert Marcia Rudin got more calls than she could possibly answer, forcing her to turn away anxious parents whose children had slipped deep into mysterious sects.
March 29, 1997
World & Nation
China’s parliament passed a law today banning cults--aimed at the Falun Gong spiritual movement--and called on the legal system to “smash them rigorously,” the official New China News Agency reported.
Oct. 30, 1999
A court here Tuesday outlawed all activities of the Aum Supreme Truth sect suspected in last month’s deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo subways, dealing the group’s huge Russian organization a crushing blow.
April 19, 1995
Yoshinobu Aoyama, the suave lawyer for the doomsday Aum Supreme Truth sect, whose frequent television appearances made his name a household word in Japan, was arrested Wednesday.
May 4, 1995
They removed their followers from the influences of home and family.
April 22, 2000
In what could be a major step toward solving the March poison-gas terror attack in the subways here, police Tuesday for the first time named a leader of the Aum Supreme Truth cult as a possible suspect.
May 10, 1995
A Westlake Village man who died three months ago after winning a $1.5-million judgment against a Calabasas-based religious sect was honored Saturday by a national anti-cult group.
Nov. 2, 1986
Ringed by hundreds of armed law enforcement officials, machine-gun wielding members of a messianic religious sect released six children from their fortified compound Monday, but the concession did little to ease the state of siege that has set in since four federal agents and two cult members were killed in a chaotic firefight on Sunday.
March 2, 1993
Members of a religious sect who believed they were “anointed by God” allegedly killed seven people and tortured more in a remote indigenous community of Panama.
Jan. 18, 2020
Archives
* In “A Nation of Cults: The Great American Tradition” (Opinion, April 6) Sean Wilentz confuses the formation of religious sects, such as Shakers, Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, with cults.
April 22, 1997