CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/25/2025
Patrick Ryan
"Han Hak-ja, leader of the Unification Church allegedly connected with the delivery of luxury gifts to ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee in exchange for favors, will voluntarily appear for questioning by a special counsel team this week after not heeding earlier summons, her attorneys said Sunday.
Special counsel Min Joong-ki's team said earlier Sunday that Han, whom it had summoned for questioning Monday, said through her legal representatives that she won't be able to appear that day due to health reasons. It was the third time Han, believed to be in her early 80s, had not heeded the team's summons."
"Scientists have discovered specialized IC-encoder neurons that make the brain “see” illusions, such as squares or triangles that aren’t truly there. These neurons receive top-down instructions from higher brain areas and then fill in missing contours in the visual cortex, actively constructing what we perceive.
Experiments showed that stimulating these neurons alone could reproduce the same brain activity as seeing an illusion. The findings transform our understanding of vision as an active process, with implications for perception disorders and how reality is constructed in the brain."
"The pedophile “apostle’’ of a Mexico-based megachurch would force kiddie victims to commit incest in front of him — and have them wear masks so they wouldn’t realize it, a Manhattan federal indictment says.
Naasón Joaquín García, 56, and five of his top lieutenants at La Luz del Mundo were indicted by the feds earlier this month on charges of sex trafficking, child pornography and racketeering in a horrific sweeping case involving victims from New York to the UK to South Africa.
The indictment recently unsealed in Manhattan federal court echoes some of the previous accusations against García, who is already in prison on sex charges."
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