ByAaron Katersky February 21, 2023, 1:20 PM Mormon Church to pay $5 million to settle accusations of covering up portfolio The church and its investment company, Ensign Peak Advisers, will share the cost of the settlement. The Mormon Church agreed Tuesday to pay $5 million to settle charges involving disclosure failures and misstated regulatory filings. […]
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In 2012, several individuals in New Jersey began a nonprofit organization, NJ Safe & Sound, to advocate for legislation to protect families in cases of undue influence and predatory alienation. Their own personal experiences with predatory alienation led them to their advocacy efforts. As a result of the advocacy efforts of NJ Safe and Sound, […]
On November 18, 1978, a total of 918 individuals died in Jonestown Guyana, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning. They were directed to do so by Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple, a cult that moved there from San-Francisco. Although this is not the only time tragedy has resulted from persons allowing themselves […]
The Sunday morning session of the 2021 “Powerful By Faith” Regional Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses contains a symposium entitled: “Imitate Women of Strong Faith”. The sixth talk in the series by governing body helper Leonard Myers (The Phoenician Woman) contained a video discouraging witnesses from exercising critical thinking by presenting a scene of a newly […]
by Mark Barnard I was ordained as a minister by a lesser known Christian denomination. Because it is not well known, people occasionally mistook it for a cult! At those uncomfortable moments, I assured them that it is more than 100 years old, founded on a vision for missions and anchored on the authority of God’s […]
Distrust of Material Not Provided by the Organization The Watchtower society often admonishes its members to encourage persons they meet in their witnessing work that belong to another religion to compare what their church teaches to what the Bible says. They even offer specific literature to help guide them in the process and help them […]
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The following is a review of an article printed in the February 1994 issue of The Watchtower. Exactly one year earlier, the news reported on the tragedy in Waco Texas that left 86 dead at the end of a standoff between law enforcement and the religious movement founded by David Koresh called the Branch Dividians. […]