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October-December 1998
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Cult Awareness Events, Meetings, & Announcements Events CULTINFO hosts cult awareness conference, co-sponsored by FACTNet CULTINFO is a new national cult awareness organization whose mission is to reduce the number of people who join destructive and cultic organizations, help people victimized by such groups, create public awareness regarding such groups, and foster open discussion of such groups. What: CULTINFO’s first national conference (see story on page 2) When: Friday to Sunday, February 12-14, 1999 over Presidents’ Day weekend Where: Stamford, CT Contact: CULTINFO at 203-338-9776 or PO Box 1180, Bridgeport, CT 06601 Meetings Focus meetings held monthly in Boston What: Focus is a support group for former cult members. Focus meetings for ex-members of cult groups only. When: 1st Wednesday of every month Where: Boston area Contact: Co-facilitators Mike and Nancy at 617-353-5269, option 2 Original Cult Awareness Network, Inc. opens web site The original Cult Awareness Network, Inc. has set up a web site at www.CAN-Inc.org to keep the public informed of its status and ongoing legal battles. Take some time to visit www.CAN-Inc.org. A&E Investigative Reports with Bill Kurtis presents The World Premiere: Inside Scientology What: A probe into the conflict surrounding the controversial Church of Scientology. Is Scientology guilty of threatening and driving its enemies into bankruptcy, or are the media and government harassing a legitimate religious organization? Also looks into the life of founder and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. When: 9 – 11 p.m. (EST), Monday December 14th, Tuesday December 15th, and Saturday December 19th (Check local listings). Where: A&E cable channel Internet radio program Cyberwoman interviews cult expert Janja Lalich What: A cyber-radio interview, accessible via the Internet numerous times over the next few weeks. Host Rebecca Anderson talks with cult expert Janja Lalich, co-author with Dr. Margaret Singer of Cults in Our Midst. The interview is primarily about cults and cultic relationships, geared toward the show’s primarily female audience When: Interview will be aired on three time slots, 1 a.m., 9 a.m., and 5 p.m., on these dates: Friday November 27th, Monday November 30th, Tuesday December 8th, Wednesday December 16th, and Friday January 1st. After that, it will be in the Cyberwoman archives of past shows. How: To hear the show, go to the web site http://www.imagineradio.com, then click Imagine Talk, then click Listen. New Russian anti-cult magazine Prozreniye makes debut The first issue of a new Russian magazine focused on cults was recently published. Prozreniye, or Seeing the Light, is devoted to providing education on cults, which are increasingly prevalent in Russia. The issue covers criminal activities of cults, cult advocates in Russia’s political elite, and the harms cults cause to individuals. The magazine’s publishers are the Moscow Patriarchate's publishing house and the St. Irenaeus of Lyons Center. The center is headed by cult expert Aleksandr Dvorkin, who also chairs the cultic studies department at St. Tikhon Orthodox Theological Institute. Dvorkin also wrote "Introduction to the study of Cults" (Vvedeniye v Sektovedeniye), a book exposing the dangers inherent in the teachings and activities of totalitarian cults. Twisted Scriptures book helping people read their way out of destructive churches, cults Exit counselor Mary Alice Chrnalogar’s book Twisted Scriptures appeared in bookstores last year. Since then she has received numerous letters of appreciation from people and estimates hundreds have left abusive groups after reading it. The book explains the characteristics of controlling and abusive groups. According to Chrnalogar, many cult members don't recognize the control their group wields until someone points it out to them. Twisted Scriptures seeks to point out such dangers in a non-controlling arena. The book and her expertise tend toward abusive Bible-based churches. To order the book, call Chrnalogar’s hotline at 423-629-0082. Cult awareness organizations: If you have an event, meeting, or announcement and you would like FACTNet to publicize it in the newsletter or on the web site, please let us know. Email manage@factnet.org or write to FACTNet, .-- This editorial/opinion/news alert has been provided or
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