A Christian doomsday cult in Kenya targeted children to die first in its final days, starving them to death before the adults followed through with the same plan. Police are investigating what ...

It's been 29 years since 39 cult members killed themselves in the largest mass suicide ever in the United States. The Heaven's Gate cult suicide came as a result of years of systemic brainwashing and ...

He didn’t know what it was or where it was coming from, but it was a feeling Frank Lyford knew he couldn’t just ignore. A somewhat foreign sensation, it struck towards the end of the summer of 1993, ...

A look back at the mass suicide that left 39 members of a cult dead in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion more than 25 years ago.

New York is poised to join an unholy alliance of US states that let doctors help people kill themselves. It’s done under the guise of humanitarian empathy, but in practice it merely cheapens and ...

For many trapped inside an authoritarian cult, members are dissuaded from seeking out qualified professionals for anxiety, depression, or mental health issues. Groups with high control typically ...

In 1997, a group of 39 cult members died in a mass suicide The "Heaven's Gate" cult was one that spanned decades and, at its center, a wide-eyed cult leader named Marshall Applewhite An April 1997 ...