CultNEWS101 Articles: 2/23/2026
Patrick Ryan
Exploring the book and the history of the Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han, and their family organizations.Moon church leaders instructed thousands of Japanese members to join a Buddhist religion, Tenchi Seikyō. They then carried out the infamous ‘spiritual sales*’. This worked well in Japan, a Buddhist country. The Moon church members hid their real allegiance to Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han.
As Tyler Hendricks explained some years later, those ‘Buddhist members’ and the home members they recruited had to integrate into the Unification Church in special ceremonies when Tenchi Seikyō was mainly dissolved.
When the Tenchi Seikyō scam started, the Unification Church's terrible reputation in Japan was affecting fundraising results – and Moon wanted hundreds of millions of dollars."
"In early February 2026, Bulgaria was rocked by a grim discovery that would spiral into one of the country's most disturbing cases in recent memory. On February 2nd, authorities found three dead men inside the Petrohan mountain lodge: 49-year-old Ivaylo Ivanov, 45-year-old Decho Iliev, and 51-year-old Plamen Stattev. A week later, the horror deepened when three more bodies were discovered in an abandoned camper under Okolchitsa Peak: 51-year-old Ivaylo Kalushev, a world-renowned speleologist and self-proclaimed spiritual leader; 22-year-old Nikolay Zlatkov; and 15-year-old Alexander Makulev, found with his fingers intertwined on both hands. What initially appeared to be a tragic incident quickly unraveled into a complex web of alleged sexual abuse, cult-like practices, institutional failures, and political entanglements. At the center stands Kalushev, who led what investigators describe as a "closed society with elements of a sect" that operated between Bulgaria and Mexico, attracting vulnerable children and families seeking spiritual guidance - only to face accusations of manipulation, abuse, and systematic control that may have ultimately led to six deaths."
"...Members of the 764 satanic network target emotionally vulnerable underage children and then coerce them into a spectrum of self-abuse that includes cutting, eating their own hair, and even suicide. The U.S. Dept. of Justice has said cult members often have the victims record the self-abuse, and then the footage is "circulated among members to extort victims further and exert control over them."
St. Peter faces felony charges of sexual abuse of a child under 16 years of age. He remained under custody in Maryland and awaits extradition to Idaho after receiving a $100,000 bond.
Det. Noah Monroe of the Nampa Police Special Victims Unit said the case is a good reminder for parents to restrict and monitor their children's access to social media."
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