CultNEWS101 Articles: 4/14/2026
Patrick Ryan
CHOSUNBIZ: Prosecutors drop Chun Jae-soo Unification Church bribery case over time bar
"Prosecutors and police on the 10th closed the case against Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Chun Jae-soo (former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries), who faced allegations of receiving money and valuables from the Unification Church, citing expiration of the statute of limitations or insufficient evidence, and concluded it as no right of indictment and no suspicion. Chun was confirmed the previous day (the 9th) as the Democratic Party of Korea's candidate for Busan mayor.
The joint investigation headquarters of prosecutors and police probing alleged collusion between state and religion (the Joint Investigation Headquarters on State–Religion Collusion Corruption, hereinafter the "headquarters") announced the results of its investigation that day into the case concerning "alleged acceptance of money and valuables by former and incumbent lawmakers." The headquarters was launched on Jan. 6 and has investigated related cases for three months."
AOL: Imprisoned Leader of Egyptian-Themed UFO-Obsessed Cult Seeks Compassionate Release
"The leader of a Black supremacist Egyptian-themed cult is seeking early release from federal prison, claiming in papers filed last month that he suffers from a recurring medical condition that causes parts of his body to swell.
Dwight "Malachi" York, a former writer and musician, founded the UFO-obsessed United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors in 1967. He was arrested on May 8, 2002, after authorities raided the cult’s Georgia “Tama-Re” compound, and was accused of molesting dozens of children.
York, now 80, was convicted of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes and financial crimes. He has been in prison since 2004, serving a 135-year sentence at the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
York's petition, filed February 13, claims he suffers from complications caused by hereditary angioedema, a rare condition that causes severe swelling that can kill if it affects the throat and constricts one's airway.
The filing claimed that the medical treatment York receives at the prison is substandard, at best."
NPR: What draws people into cults? A new book tracks the journeys of two followers
"In 2017, a gaunt, bespectacled, 71-year-old woman wearing a crisp white uniform with two stars on the shoulder was arrested in New Mexico. This was Deborah Green, nee Lila Carter, the leader and self-described general of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps (ACMTC) – a cult that had been operating with impunity for three decades, despite various attempts by former members to get law enforcement to shut it down.
"But Deborah looked so small, so frail – so old" when she was arrested, writes Harrison Hill in his new book, The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult. And yet this was the woman who with her rantings and ravings about God and hell had struck fear into the hearts of her followers.
Hill's book closely follows two characters – Maura Aluzas and Sarah Green – and their journeys into and out of ACMTC. It also explores the broader landscape of cults in the U.S. and how their logic and approach to religion have become less and less fringe over the years, to the point where ACMTC's messy doctrine seems, in a twisted way, to have been ahead of its time."
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