Source: The Guardian Jeevan Vasagar July 5, 2000 The Twelve Tribes sect was banned from attending this year’s Reading Festival after the Guardian revealed that the cult was using rock events to distribute anti-Semitic literature. The festival organiser, Mean Fiddler, yesterday turned down an application from Twelve Tribes to bring its mobile cafe, The Common…
Source: The Guardian-4 July 2000 Christian fundamentalists are taking advantage of open air music gatherings to spread anti-semitic messages A Christian fundamentalist religious movement which describes Jews as “murderers” is using rock festivals, including Glastonbury and Reading, to recruit young people.Twelve Tribes, whose 24-hour cafe, The Common Ground, was a popular meeting point at this…
Source: The Burlington (Vermont) Free Press From The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 18, 2000 By Nancy Bazilchuk ISLAND POND — John Dodge, 23, looked a little out of place at the Twelve Tribes church’s community gathering Saturday. An Island Pond native, he grew up calling the church members “Moonies,” threw pennies on the roofs…
Interview with ex TT member Cheryl Lewczyk and her mother Shirley Source: Twelve Tribes-ex.com The Buffalo News Gene Warner May 21, 2000 Cheryl Lewczyk was hooked. She was showered with attention, made to feel special and beautiful. In her mid-30s, she found a group of people who said they would love and take care of…
Fascist These are some of the oppressive rules of the Twelve Tribes Community (cult). 1.Members can not think for them selves. In the cult members must blindly follow what the leaders (‘shepherds”) say. 2. I asked an elder once if they ever agree to disagree but love each …
Humanity Presse February 26, 2000 No one knows how many minors live in this community of Sus, France. Since the investigation, the social workers intervene for a few of the children. On April 4, 1997, Raphael Ginhoux died at the age of 19 months in the Angous farm near the Pyrenees. The child weighed 10…
The Boston Globe Jordana Hatt 8/25/99 Lakeville – A nursing home that sits empty and ramshackle in farm country about 50 miles south of Boston is slated to open next summer as the nations first residential home for people who have left or escaped religious mind-control groups.The New England Institute of Religious Research, which says…
Byline: Chris Griffiths Special Report The Sunday Mail, August 22, 1999, pages 14, 15 Brisbane, Qld, Australia A BIZARRE bible cult, which advocates beating children before they are old enough to walk, is recruiting in Queensland. Sources say it plans to set up at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast. Twelve Tribes Mission, also called…
In 1987 my parents had been in a cult called “the Twelve Tribes” for two years. My mom gave birth to me without the assistance of any doctors, anesthetics, nurses, or hospital beds. It is forbidden to go to hospitals or have a normal life in our cult. Yoneq, our leader, had made these things…
The Greene County News November 12, 1998 Mark Spoor Coxsackie – Mike Reichmann looks like any average 57 year old man. With his red checkered tie positioned expertly in a double Windsor knot over a perfectly tucked blue shirt and light khakis, you’d think his life was as normal as Joe Q. Public. But Reichmann…