December 19, 1998
Television Program. Inside Scientology.
Investigative Reports, A&E
A probe into the conflict surrounding the controversial Church of Scientology.
December 14, 1998 "Shallowness mars A&E's investigation" BY MANUEL MENDOZA, Dallas Morning News (INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS: INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY)
November 22, 1998 Cops Say Doomsday Cult Is in Israel, Associated Press (About an organization called Concerned Christians.)
November 18, 1998 Remembering Jonestown, NewsChoice.com
November 14, 1998
Television Program. Jonestown: Mystery of a Massacre.
Investigative Reports, A&E Saturday, November 14, 1998 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern time
Using audio tapes, this documentary reveals that most of the 900 victims of the Jonestown mass "suicide" of 1978 were actually murdered--injected with cyanide against their will.
November 14, 1998 Cults Remain Even After Jonestown, Associated Press
November 12, 1998 Missing Cult Mystery In Denver, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather (About an organization led by Kim Miller.)
November 8, 1998 Television Program. Inside Heaven's Gate.
Investigative Reports, A&E Sunday, November 8, 1998 7-8pm and 11:00 PM - Midnight Pacific time
Probes into why 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide.
November 5, 1998Cults on Campus, Kansas State Collegian, Kansas State University (Includes information on the International Church of Christ.)
4-Nov-98 Cult Activity on College Campuses to Increase, Texas Christian University (Groups mentioned in this article include the International Churches of Christ, Unification Church and Scientology.)
October 23, 1998 First death sentence for Japan subway cult member, CNN Interactive (About Aum Shinri Kyo, Supreme Truth Sect)
(Posted October 20, 1998 to the NewsOnCults.com Web site.) In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family by Nansook Hong (Excerpt from Nansook Hong's book. Nansook Hong a former daughter-in-law of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the leader of the Unification Church.)
October 18, 1998The Tragedy of Jonestown: Jim Jones' Sons Revisit Site of Mass Suicide, ABCNEWS 20/20
October 5, 1998 "Seven Korean doomsday cult followers found dead" by CNN Interactive
September 28, 1998"Cult recruiting on campus, chaplain warns" by Erin Fitzpatrick, Peak, Simon Fraser University (About the Vancouver Church of Christ/International Churches of Christ)
September 23, 1998Residence Evil, Stony Brook Press, State University of New York at Stony Brook
September 10, 1998:"Campus warned of cults" by Jeanine Cardullo, On-Line Forty-Niner, California State University, Long Beach (Former Los Angeles Church of Christ member
Calvin Kwan is quoted.)
September 8, 1998Students warned about cults, Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University (News on "The Brethren")
August 29, 1998 Some Advice on Cults:
Before Joining a Cult, Be
Sure to Ask the Right
Questions. by Chris Lee, The Tech, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
August 24, 1998:"Under Their Thumb: High Pressure Groups on Our Campus" by Christopher Peters, Long Beach Union, California State University, Long Beach (The Los
Angeles Church of Christ is mentioned in this article.)
Winter 1998"Church Cult on Campus?" By Jackie Kochaphum, Escape, California State University, Hayward (About the ICC)
May 7, 1998 Kidnapped From A Cult Compiled by NewsNet5 (18 year old joins the Garbage Eaters.) (NewsOnCults.com does not recommend the kidnapping of anyone.)
April 09, 1998 Public Safety Warns Students about Religious Cult, University News, Saint Louis University (Available
on LEXIS-NEXIS.) (About a group know as the "Church" or "Brotherhood.")
April 1, 1998"Stay out of cults", Diamondback, University Of Maryland, College Park (...the Maryland
General Assembly is considering creating a task force to study cult activity at state institutions of higher education.)
Wednesday, March 25, 1998 PrimeTime Live ABCNEWS.com Inside a Secretive and Controversial Religious Cult (About the Brethren/Garbage Eaters/The Roberts Group) (�Universities are prime recruiting grounds�)
2/24/98:"Boston U. alumnus warns of cults" by Amber Hansman, The Daily Free Press, Boston University (The International Churches of Christ is mentioned in this article)
12/9/97:"Concerned About Campus Cults, Colleges Arm Students With Facts" by Justin Gillis and Caryle Murphy, The Washington Post, B01 (ICC information included)
12/4/97:"L.A. Church of Christ" by Reginald Greene, Letter to the editor, University Times, California State
University, Los Angeles (About the ICC)
9/1/97: Christianity Today: The Cost of Discipleship?: Despite allegations of abuse of authority, the International Churches of Christ expands rapidly.
May 6, 1997Other recent mass suicides, CBS 2 News (News on the Rev. Jim Jones Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.)
May 6, 1997Moonies - Part 2 NewsCenter4 (News on Unification Church/CARP Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle.)
May 5, 1997Moonies - Part 1 NewsCenter4 (News on Unification Church/Sun Myung Moon/Pure Love Alliance/CARP Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle.)
April 26, 1997The Cult Controversy by WashingtonPost.com (This special report brings together 50 years of Post photographs and news clips about some of the religious and other movements whose techniques have drawn criticism.)
International Churches of Christ Barred from Campuses
According to Newsweek the International Churches of Christ, "has been barred from recruiting on many campuses because, critics say, it blackmails those who try to leave the sect." (From "Living on the Religious Fringe," Newsweek, 4/7/97, 48B)
11/97:"My friends lured me into a cult" by Sarah Lieu, as told to Anita Bartholomew, YM, Young and Modern Magazine, 64-67 (Article about the International Churches of Christ.)
Video Cassette: The ICC: A 2-hour video compilation of various news media coverage (ABC's 20/20, King Worlds Inside Edition, Canadian Broadcasting Companys 5th Estate, and others) of the ICC.