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From XFamily - Children of God
Contents
- 1 60 Minutes
- 2 ABC News
- 3 The Advocate (Newark, Ohio)
- 4 The Age (Melbourne)
- 5 Akron Beacon Journal
- 6 Alberta Report/Western Report
- 7 Allentown Morning Call
- 8 Arizona Daily Star
- 9 Arizona Daily Wildcat
- 10 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- 11 Associated Press
- 12 Augusta Chronicle
- 13 Austin American-Statesman
- 14 Australian Associated Press
- 15 The Australian
- 16 BBC
- 17 Birmingham News
- 18 The Boston Globe
- 19 Bristol Evening Post
- 20 The Calgary Herald
- 21 California Patriot
- 22 CBS
- 23 Charleston Gazette
- 24 Chattanooga Times
- 25 Colorado Springs Gazette
- 26 Christian Research Journal
- 27 Christianity Today
- 28 Cleveland Plain Dealer
- 29 CNN
- 30 Columbus Dispatch
- 31 Cornerstone Magazine
- 32 The Courier Mail
- 33 Cosmopolitan
- 34 Daily Camera (Denver)
- 35 Daily Express (UK)
- 36 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, PA)
- 37 Daily Mail (London)
- 38 Dallas Morning News
- 39 Dateline NBC
- 40 Davenport Democrat and Leader
- 41 Dr. Phil
- 42 Edwardsville Intelligencer
- 43 Essex Chronicle
- 44 Evening Standard, London
- 45 Folio (University of Alberta)
- 46 Fox News
- 47 Fresno Bee
- 48 Geraldo Rivera
- 49 The Globe and Mail
- 50 Gold Coast Bulletin
- 51 The Guardian (UK)
- 52 Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, Canada
- 53 Harper's Magazine
- 54 Hillsboro Post Gazette
- 55 Hollywood Reporter
- 56 Honolulu Advertiser
- 57 Houston Chronicle
- 58 Houston Press
- 59 The Humble Observer
- 60 The Independent
- 61 Indiana Evening Gazette
- 62 IRE Journal
- 63 Irish Independent
- 64 Irish Times
- 65 Jane Magazine
- 66 Kennebec Journal
- 67 Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Ontario, Canada
- 68 KVOA TV
- 69 LA Daily News
- 70 Lancaster Eagle Gazette
- 71 Lethbridge Herald
- 72 Limerick Post
- 73 London Times
- 74 Los Angeles Times
- 75 Macleans, Canada
- 76 Madison Magazine (Australia)
- 77 Manly Daily
- 78 Mansfield News Journal
- 79 Marie Claire, Australia
- 80 Marysville Journal Tribune
- 81 Midwest Christian Outreach Journal
- 82 The Mirror, UK
- 83 The Modesto Bee
- 84 National Enquirer
- 85 New Times
- 86 New York Times
- 87 Nevada State Journal
- 88 Newsday (Melville, NY)
- 89 News of the World (UK)
- 90 Nottingham Evening Post
- 91 Oakland Tribune
- 92 The Observer, UK
- 93 Odessa American
- 94 Orange County Weekly
- 95 Oui Magazine
- 96 The Park Record
- 97 People Magazine
- 98 Peoria Journal Star
- 99 Philadelphia Inquirer
- 100 Philippine Daily Inquirer
- 101 The Post Crescent
- 102 Port Arthur News
- 103 Press-Enterprise
- 104 The Progress (Clearfield, Pa.)
- 105 Reuters
- 106 Rocky Mountain News
- 107 Rolling Stone
- 108 Salt Lake Tribune
- 109 San Francisco Chronicle
- 110 San Jose Mercury News
- 111 The Scotsman
- 112 South China Morning Post
- 113 Stars and Stripes
- 114 Straits Times
- 115 Sun Herald
- 116 Sunday Vision
- 117 Sydney Morning Herald
- 118 Syracuse Post-Standard
- 119 Tampa Tribune
- 120 Telegraph (Australia)
- 121 Telegraph (London)
- 122 Texas Monthly
- 123 Time Magazine
- 124 Times Education Supplement
- 125 Times-Picayune
- 126 Toronto Star
- 127 Tucson Citizen
- 128 UC Berkeley News
- 129 UPI
- 130 US Magazine
- 131 Uncut
- 132 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas)
- 133 Variety
- 134 Washington Post
- 135 Weekly Observer
- 136 Western Daily News
- 137 What Magazine
- 138 Xinhua News Agency
- 139 Non-English-language press
Following is an archive of press relating to The Family/Children of God cult.
- To view press coverage by year, see Category:Press or Category:Timeline.
- For television coverage, see Category:Video Archives.
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60 Minutes
- 60 Minutes New Zealand: The Children of God — 2005-08-22
- 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts — 2005-10-16
ABC News
- Good Morning America: Family International Cult Under Scrutiny After Murder-Suicide — 2005-01-18
- ABC News: New Focus on Fringe Religious Sect — 2005-01-27
- ABC News: Tale of the Tape — 2005-01-27
The Advocate (Newark, Ohio)
- Newark Advocate: Children of God find new home — 1977-07-22
The Age (Melbourne)
- The Age: Controversial Sect At Congress 'To Learn' — 1973-02-22
- The Age: Taxi! Hailing the drama of a lifetime — 1982-07-10
- The Age: Busloads of Bewilderment and Soft Toys — 1992-05-16
- The Age: Eccentric Habits Mark Group's Re-emergence — 1992-05-16
- The Age: Sect Children Seized — 1992-05-16
- The Age: Sect Fails In Court Bid For Children — 1992-05-16
- The Age: Legal Concerns About The Untested Aspects Of The Law — 1992-05-18
- The Age: What prompted the CSV raids? — 1992-05-19
- The Age: Children Held For Another Night — 1992-05-19
- The Age: Formal Mood Returns To CSV Case — 1992-05-21
- Sunday Age: Director worries for children — 1992-05-24
- The Age:Sect Made Protest On Medicals — 1992-06-02
- The Age: Moses David's children — 1992-06-05
- The Age: Court Told of Sect Security Measures — 1992-06-24
- The Age: More of a sect than a cult, says theologian — 1992-07-03
- The Age: Sect looks for a new home — 1992-07-10
- The Age: Push For Family Dispute Settlement — 1993-12-07
- The Age: Mediator appointed to settle Children Of God litigation — 1994-02-02
- The Age: A Case For Mediation — 1994-02-02
- The Age: Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks — 1994-04-04
- The Age: Keeping it in the Family — 1994-04-29
- The Age: Secret Cabinet deal killed Family case — 1994-04-29
- The Sunday Age: Meet The Family — 2004-05-09
- The Age: Sect ties revealed as children recovered — 2007-05-04
- The Age: Jesus Freaks — 2008-01-12
- Macau Closer Look: The Gospel according to Mo — 2008-05-05
- The Age: Moments In Time - May 1992: Children of sect members are seized in dawn raids — 2008-04-23
Akron Beacon Journal
Alberta Report/Western Report
- Alberta Report Western Report: Chilling reminders of "free love": an Argentine incest bust stirs gruesome memories in Alberta — 1993-09-26
- Alberta Report-Western Report: Badly kept Family secrets — 1995-05-08
Allentown Morning Call
Arizona Daily Star
- Arizona Daily Star: Stabber's friends blame decades of abuse in sex cult — 2005-01-12
- Arizona Daily Star: Sect rebuts claims in murder — 2005-01-13
- Arizona Daily Star: 2 bodies found in trunk of stolen car — 2005-03-08
- Arizona Daily Star: New book calls cult practices madness — 2007-11-11
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Alpharetta Mom Working to Rescue Children From Sex Cult in Thailand — 1988-09-11
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult — 1993-12-12
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75 — 1994-11-26
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days — 1998-07-25
Associated Press
- Associated Press: U.S. Embassy Says Five Americans Jailed in Egypt, Accused of Missionary Work — 1985-10-18
- Associated Press: `The Family' wants cult-hunting group dissolved — 1993-08-04
- Associated Press: Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse — 1997-03-26
- Associated Press: FBI says child recovered from care of religious group, given to custodian — 2000-09-05
Augusta Chronicle
Austin American-Statesman
- Austin American-Statesman: Youth group tragedy - 6 die when truck collides with van carrying religious campers — 1995-07-17
- Austin American-Statesman: Silence, then a struggle with the heat and horror — 1995-07-17
- Austin American-Statesman: Teens part of group with roots in '60s — 1995-07-17
- Austin American-Statesman: Faith sustains families after crash — 1995-07-18
- Austin American-Statesman: Youths' boardinghouse is alive with memories — 1995-07-18
- Austin American-Statesman: Gathering Pieces of Shattered Lives — 1995-07-19
- Austin American-Statesman: Music, poetry mark teens' funeral — 1995-07-22
- Austin American-Statesman: Group in collision to move to area — 1995-07-26
- Austin American-Statesman: Landlord decides Christian group too big for house — 1995-07-27
- Austin American-Statesman: Man sues over wreck near McKinney Falls — 1995-09-02
- Austin American-Statesman: Austin, county cleared in 1995 accident — 1999-10-20
Australian Associated Press
- Australian Associated Press: NSW - Sect children warrant invalidly executed, court told — 1999-01-31
The Australian
- The Australian: Seized cult children sue — 1997-11-01
- The Australian: Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass — 1999-04-01
- The Australian: Keeping it in the Family — 2003-11-29
BBC
- BBC News: Eyewitness: Why people join cults — 2000-03-24
- BBC Outlook: Abuse within The Family — 2006-09-18
Birmingham News
The Boston Globe
- Boston Globe: A Family Argument — 2005-02-25
Bristol Evening Post
- Bristol Evening Post: Suffer little children — 2007-07-18
The Calgary Herald
- Calgary Herald: Refusing treatment, cult member dies — 1980-03-17
- Calgary Herald: Woman wants to save her sister from cult — 1980-03-18
- Calgary Herald: 'They are right from the pits of hell,' says ex-Child of God — 1980-03-26
California Patriot
CBS
- CBS: Anti-Semitic Letter Sent to Jewish Center — 2007-05-16
Charleston Gazette
Chattanooga Times
- Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown — 1993-09-03
Colorado Springs Gazette
Christian Research Journal
- Christian Research Journal: Inside the "Heavenly Elite — Summer, 1990
Christianity Today
- Christianity Today: The Children of God: Disciples of Deception — 1977-02-18
- Christianity Today: Children of God: New Revelations — 1978-02-24
- Christianity Today: The Children of God: Fewer and Far Out — 1980-01-25
- Christianity Today: Children of God Cult Records Higher Numbers — 1982-11-26
- Christianity Today: Have Children of God Cleaned Up Their Act? — 1992-12-14
- Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed — 1993-10-25
- Christianity Today: Accused ‘Family’ Members Released — 1994-03-07
- Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75 — 1995-01-09
- Christianity Today Liveblog: Freaky Murder — 2007-06-14
Cleveland Plain Dealer
CNN
- CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography — 1993-09-03
- CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers? — 1993-10-20
- CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Murder-Suicide Leads to Secretive Cult — 2005-01-18
- CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Twisted Cult — 2007-12-04
- CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Young man's suicide blamed on mother's cult — 2007-12-04
- CNN Newsroom: Born into a cult — 2007-12-05
Columbus Dispatch
- Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors — 1993-09-16
- Columbus Dispatch: Woman seeking to get cult-controlled kin out of Argentina — 1993-09-25
- Columbus Dispatch: Woman says siblings are brainwashed cult victims — 1993-10-05
Cornerstone Magazine
- Cornerstone Magazine: The Family and the Truth — 2004-03-02
- Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father" — 2004-03-02
The Courier Mail
- The Courier Mail: FBI investigates Coast sex cult — 2005-11-19
- The Courier Mail: Family Website Accepting ‘Charity’ Donations — 2005-11-19
- The Courier Mail: Rebirth Of A Controversial Sect — 2005-11-19
- The Courier Mail: Mother flies out with her children - Runaway father denies link to The Family — 2007-05-05
- Sunday Mail: Reading Room Reviews — 2008-01-06
Cosmopolitan
- Cosmopolitan: A sex cult stole my childhood — 2005-08
- Cosmopolitan: "I survived a RAPE CULT" — 2006-01
Daily Camera (Denver)
- Daily Camera: Parenting Award Controversial — 1999-08-06
Daily Express (UK)
- Daily Express: How Close Is The End of The World? — 2007-08-20
Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, PA)
- Daily Intelligencer: Dear God, Please give me back my son! — 1977-01-24
- Daily Intelligencer: Cult ordeal has changed family's life — 1979-01-18
- Daily Intelligencer: Egypt deports members of alleged sect — 1985-11-07
Daily Mail (London)
- Daily Mail: House of croquet and free love — 1993-09-03
- Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult — 1993-09-03
- Daily Mail: Free the children from this evil cult — 1994-11-01
- Daily Mail: 'Reformed' Sex Cult Can Keep Children — 1995-11-25
- Daily Mail: No Money, No Books But Plenty Of Free Love — 2006-08-17
- Daily Mail: Enslaved by the cult of sex...for 25 years — 2007-07-12
Dallas Morning News
- Dallas Morning News: Area watchdog groups say families torn apart by sects' control of members — 1986-08-18
- Dallas Morning News: Back to the Garden — 1990-03-11
Dateline NBC
- Dateline NBC: A message from beyond the grave — 2005-08-19
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Dr. Phil
- Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees — 2005-10-03
Edwardsville Intelligencer
Essex Chronicle
Evening Standard, London
- Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult — 1993-09-03
- Evening Standard: Evil Berg still leads cult from beyond the grave — 1995-11-24
- Evening Standard: The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God — 2005-03-09
Folio (University of Alberta)
- Folio: CBS News "Eyes" the U of A — 1998-05-15
Fox News
- O'Reilly Factor: Sex Cult Center of Court Case — 2006-10-11
- Fox News: Cult Members Cause Scene at Screening — 2007-01-24
Fresno Bee
- Fresno Bee: NY Accuses Cult of Sex Perversion — 1974-10-15
Geraldo Rivera
The Globe and Mail
- Globe and Mail: Didn't know boy killed until three days later, Gruener says on stand — 1978-03-07
- Globe and Mail: Pampered Betesh, other 3 shared interests despite backgrounds — 1978-03-11
- Globe and Mail: Gruener is looking to religion — 1978-03-11
- Globe and Mail: 'Flirty fishing' is urged for sect — 1979-12-08
- Globe and Mail: Transatlantic custody battle continues — 1982-01-11
- Globe and Mail: B.C. officials seize 13 children after claim that one molested — 1983-02-24
- Globe and Mail: Get ready to die, cult followers told — 1994-02-01
- Globe and Mail: Coming to terms with an abusive cult upbringing — 2007-11-02
Gold Coast Bulletin
- Gold Coast Bulletin: cult status — 2003-03-25
The Guardian (UK)
- The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members — 1993-09-03
- The Guardian: After the 'Family' broke us apart — 2005-11-26
Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, Canada
- Hamilton Spectator: Burlington kin support alleged cult leader — 1993-09-07
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: We will be completely vindicated, says Susan — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers — 1993-09-10
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult woman's jail treatment 'atrocious' — 1993-09-17
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult leader fears AIDS scare at jail — 1993-12-11
- Hamilton Spectator: Burlington woman free in Argentina cult case — 1993-12-14
Harper's Magazine
- Harper's Magazine: Family Values — 2005-09
Hillsboro Post Gazette
Hollywood Reporter
Honolulu Advertiser
- Honolulu Advertiser: Did Cult Abduct Two Children? — 1980-09-10
Houston Chronicle
- Houston Chronicle: Hope fading for return of boys taken by cult — 1985-09-02
- Houston Chronicle: Prisoner of a cult — 1989-12-04
- Houston Chronicle: Group opens fund to reunite mother with her kidnapped son — 1989-12-06
- Houston Chronicle: Mother accuses State Dept. of hindering rescue of teen — 1989-12-09
- Houston Chronicle: A Houston woman holds hope for child in cult — 1990-02-04
- Houston Chronicle: Sex in the name of God — 1990-02-04
- Houston Chronicle: Members of sect say they're being persecuted — 1993-09-07
- Houston Chronicle: Cult's image unfairly soiled, member says — 1993-09-11
- Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family — 1993-10-10
- Houston Chronicle: Elusive "father' of cult has held a following for 25 years — 1993-10-10
- Houston Chronicle: Past returns to haunt 'Parent of the Year' — 1999-08-04
Houston Press
- Houston Press: Family Ties — 2005-11-17
- Houston Press: Bedtime Stories — 2005-11-17
The Humble Observer
- Humble Observer: Charitable donation or cult income? — 2005-08-03
The Independent
- Independent On Sunday: 140 children are taken from cult — 1992-05-17
- The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse — 1993-07-02
- The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love 1993-09-05
- The Independent: `We were always afraid. Silly things like frowning were punished' — 1999-04-18
- The Independent: Parent of the Year `ran camp for cult' — 1999-08-07
- The Independent: Children of (guitar) God aim to emulate his success — 2006-08-10
- The Independent: There's no way I'm pounding the sidewalk with someone who looks like Joan Baez's fat ugly sister — 2006-08-31
- Independent on Sunday: Violent sexual abuse, brainwashing and neglect: What it's like to grow up in a religious sect — 2007-09-02
Indiana Evening Gazette
IRE Journal
Irish Independent
Irish Times
- Irish Times: Helping to Take the Cult Out of the Man — 2005-03-21
Jane Magazine
- Jane Magazine: Orgies and Prophecies — 2007-06
Kennebec Journal
Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Ontario, Canada
- Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Defending the Family — 1993-09-10
KVOA TV
- KVOA TV: Professor talks about nanny murder, suicide — 2005-01-20
LA Daily News
- LA Daily News: Man is arrested in swastika case — 2007-05-04
- Los Angeles Daily News: Lessons to be learned when cults make news — 2007-12-30
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
- Lancaster Eagle Gazette: Pamphlets No Longer Allowed — 1973-11-21
Lethbridge Herald
- Lethbridge Herald: Children of God drop $1.1 million slander suit — 1973-08-04
- Lethbridge Herald: God's law versus man's law — 1974-08-10
Limerick Post
- Limerick Post: Castleconnell in cult claim — 2007-08-08
- Limerick Post: Castleconnell area was base for child sex cult, claims victim — 2007-08-08
London Times
- London Times: Hunt for the lost child of God — 1985-10-02
- Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God — 1992-05-17
- London Times: The day the 'Martians' woke up — 1993-09-05
- London Times: Follower describes childhood of abuse — 1995-11-25
- London Times: Judge condemns cult's founder as perverted and malign influence — 1995-11-25
- London Times: Revenge of a son on cult of free love — 2005-01-23
- London Times: 'After my mother, all I need is one bullet for myself' — 2005-02-09
- London Times: Band on the run with rock'n'roll in their blood — 2005-10-29
Los Angeles Times
- Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion? — 1993-03-21
- Los Angeles Times: 58 Americans Held in Argentina Sex-Sect Raid — 1993-09-04
- Los Angeles Times: Paraguay Police Raid Home Owned by Cult Suspected of Child Abuse — 1993-09-09
- Los Angeles Times: Fringe Group at Center of Deaths — 2005-01-17
- Los Angeles Times: Tragic Legacies of a Sex-Based Religion: Murder and Suicide — 2005-03-13
- Los Angeles Times: Charges filed in posting of swastikas at office — 2007-05-09
- Los Angeles Times: Former cult member assesses damage in 'Children of God' — 2007-09-05
Macleans, Canada
- Macleans: Not a normal family — 1993-09-20
Madison Magazine (Australia)
Manly Daily
- Manly Daily: Colony Comes to Town— 1973-03-24
Mansfield News Journal
- Mansfield News Journal: Children of God Reject Everything in Modern Society — 1971-12-10
- Mansfield News Journal: Controversial Children of God Sect 'Matures' — 1976-03-20
Marie Claire, Australia
Marysville Journal Tribune
Midwest Christian Outreach Journal
- Midwest Christian Outreach Journal: A Family Affair — Spring, 2004
The Mirror, UK
- The Mirror: How we escaped the clutches of a cult — 1998-12-26
- The Mirror: Ex-member of Children of God Details Childhood Abuse — 1999-05-11
- The Mirror: My parents let evil cult use me as a child sex slave — 1999-05-11
- The Mirror: Escape from the cults — 2000-03-26
- The Mirror: Real Lives: 'I was forced to have unprotected sex with 50 men' — 2001-09-15
- The Mirror: Our years of terror growing up in an evil child sex cult — 2004-10-22
The Modesto Bee
- Modesto Bee: Stan State prof suspected of cult link — 2006-12-13
- Modesto Bee: Christian group founded in '60s Jesus movement — 2006-12-13
- Modesto Bee: Stan St. lecturer verifies his past with alleged cult — 2007-01-26
- Modesto Bee: Students, experts mixed over teacher — 2007-01-26
- Modesto Bee: Lecturer no longer at Stanislaus State — 2007-09-06
National Enquirer
New Times
- New Times: Where have all the Children of God gone? — 1974-10-04
New York Times
- New York Times: Stuns Woman Preacher — 1926-07-25
- New York Times: Ill Winds Buffet Communal Sect — 1971-11-29
- New York Times: Parents Join to Combat Radical Youth Sect — 1972-02-22
- New York Times: Lefkowitz To Seek Commune's Books — 1974-01-31
- New York Times: American's Death A Bangkok Puzzle — 1974-04-09
- New York Times: Lefkowitz Lists Charges On Sect — 1974-10-14
- New York Times: Retrieving Youngsters From a Sex-Exalting Cult — 1988-07-15
- New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children — 1993-09-03
- New York Times: 66 U.S. Cultists Still Being Held in Argentina — 1993-09-26
- New York Times: Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult — 2005-01-15
- New York Times: What’s on Tonight — 2007-09-05
Nevada State Journal
- Nevada State Journal: Elderly Man Sought in Florida Attack — 1926-07-25
- Nevada State Journal: Evangelists Hold Program Series At Sparks Church — 1946-11-02
- Nevada State Journal: Teen flees cult, says mind was kidnapped — 1975-08-11
Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Newsday: 10 Commune Arrests — 1990-07-10
News of the World (UK)
- News of The World: Corrie star's horror at hell of real-life cult girl — 1998-11-29
- News of The World: This girl was born into evil sex cult and taught to say 'Yes' to any man who wanted her — 1999-06-13
- News of The World: The cruel legacy of Britain's most sinister cult — 2000-01-09
- News of The World: Farrell got missionary in position — 2004-09-19
- News of The World: "I lived in constant fear" — 2007-01-24
Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottingham Evening Post: Cult pictures of innocence — 2007-08-16
- Nottingham Evening Post: Woman tells of escape from cult — 2007-08-16
- Nottingham Evening Post: Sixties cult exerted a powerful influence — 2007-08-16
Oakland Tribune
The Observer, UK
- The Observer: Members put on defensive by raids — 1993-09-05
- The Observer, UK: Sex cult's messiah turns killer — 2005-01-23
Odessa American
- Odessa American: Children of God Evicted From Ranch — 1971-10-01
- Odessa American: 'Children' Plan To Appeal Case — 1971-12-02
- Odessa American: Religious Sect Member Sues Own Mother — 1972-01-14
- Odessa American: Suit Against Parents Is Withdrawn — 1973-07-24
- Odessa American: 'Children' Drop Suit On Damages — 1973-07-30
Orange County Weekly
- Orange County Weekly: Spare the Child — 2007-05-31
Oui Magazine
- Oui Magazine: Murder Most Foul — 1975-02
The Park Record
People Magazine
Peoria Journal Star
- Peoria Journal Star: Crusader Fights Crime with Law Degree and Attitude — 1995-03-12
- Peoria Journal Star: Why He Fights — 1996-06-09
Philadelphia Inquirer
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children — 1993-10-19
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Berg's Followers Say Death Report Won't Deter Them — 1994-11-26
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Post Crescent
Port Arthur News
- Port Arthur News: Judge dismisses religious suit — 1973-02-18
Press-Enterprise
- Press-Enterprise: The Family's values disputed — 1993-07-25
The Progress (Clearfield, Pa.)
Reuters
- Reuters: 120 Children Seized In Raid On Australian Sect — 1992-05-15
- Reuters: Sect children beaten and made to smile, court told — 1992-05-19
- Reuters: Australian Court Frees Children Seized In Raids — 1992-05-21
- Reuters: Courts Free All Sect Children Seized In Dawn Raids — 1992-05-22
Rocky Mountain News
- Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest — 1993-06-11
- Rocky Mountain News: Longmont dad denies ties to 'happy hookers' — 1999-08-06
Rolling Stone
- Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One — 2005-06-30
Salt Lake Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
- San Francisco Chronicle: Daughter of Family's Founder Renounces His Teachings — 2001-02-14
- San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image — 2001-02-14
- San Francisco Chronicle: Murder-suicide case in desert evangelical sex cult — 2005-01-11
- San Francisco Chronicle: Rage turns to vengeance against "Family" — 2005-01-15
- San Francisco Chronicle: Ex-sect members fear new violence — 2005-01-17
- San Francisco Chronicle: On tape, son of 'prophet' declares war on mother — 2005-01-20
- San Francisco Chronicle: Common Thread of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse Among Cult Defectors Who Killed Themselves — 2005-01-27
- San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult — 2005-02-06
- San Francisco Chronicle: Hewlett grant went to cult-linked charity — 2005-02-12
- San Francisco Chronicle: Flora Family Foundation donated money to charity with ties to infamous cult — 2005-02-12
- San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal' — 2005-02-27
- San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Love: Current sect members think so — 2005-02-27
- San Francisco Chronicle: Review: Fear, sex are driving forces within Children of God cult — 2007-10-19
San Jose Mercury News
- San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined — 2005-01-18
- San Jose Mercury News: The offspring of 'Jesus Freaks' — 2007-10-25
The Scotsman
- The Scotsman: Sex cult said to be recuiting in Scotland — 1994-11-01
- The Scotsman: Breaking away from the Children of God — 1998-06-24
South China Morning Post
- South China Morning Post: More accusations against Children of God — 1993-09-12
- South China Morning Post: Children of a lesser god — 1994-12-04
Stars and Stripes
Straits Times
- Straits Times: Members of banned cult resurface — 1989-08-04
- Straits Times: 140 Aussie kids saved after raids on religious cult — 1992-05-17
- Straits Times: Aussie courts free religious sect children — 1992-05-23
Sun Herald
- Sun Herald: Sect Raids Were Illegal — 1999-04-01
- Sun Herald: We Were Family — 2004-05-09
Sunday Vision
- Sunday Vision: X-tian group worships Jesus with sex — 2008-02-23
- Sunday Vision: Living by the law of love — 2008-02-23
- Sunday Vision: Haunted by a dark past — 2008-03-01
- Sunday Vision: Talk Back: Our dad lied about us — 2008-03-08
Sydney Morning Herald
- Sydney Morning Herald: Bid To Put 66 Children In Care — 1992-05-18
- Sydney Morning Herald: Court Rules Sect Children Stay In Care — 1992-05-19
- Sydney Morning Herald: Retiring Chief Stays On For Sect Case — 1992-05-20
- Sydney Morning Herald: No Extra Magistrates For Sect Case — 1992-05-21
- Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Children Freed 'In Their Best Interests' — 1992-05-22
- Sydney Morning Herald: Children Tell Of Hunger Strike Threat — 1992-05-23
- Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Warns Of $10M Damages Claim Over Raids — 1992-07-27
- Sydney Morning Herald: Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told — 1992-08-04
- Sydney Morning Herald: Magistrate Slams Sect Case Lawyers — 1992-08-19
- Sydney Morning Herald: Child Sex Evidence Queried — 1992-08-25
- Sydney Morning Herald: Home Visits Used To Spy On Children, Court Told — 1992-08-28
- Sydney Morning Herald: Testimony Against Sect Tainted, Court Told — 1992-08-28
- Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Boy Denied Sexual 'Fishing' Says Counsel — 1992-09-07
- Sydney Morning Herald: Dept's Sect Case 'Eroded' By Errors — 1992-09-09
- Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock — 1992-09-11
- Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Party Nights Face Challenge In Court — 1992-09-18
- Sydney Morning Herald: Court In Uproar Over Family Sect Ruling — 1993-10-30
- Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning — 1993-11-06
- Sydney Morning Herald: Heat Turned Up On Lauer — 1993-11-11
- Sydney Morning Herald: Tables Turned As Govt Moves To Defend Lauer — 1993-11-12
- Sydney Morning Herald: For God's sake — 1996-10-23
- Sydney Morning Herald: Seizure of sect children ruled unlawful — 1999-04-01
- Sydney Morning Herald: Beyond Belief — 1999-12-13
- Sydney Morning Herald: Drug dealer sees the light, camera, action — 2002-11-30
- Sydney Morning Herald: Cultbuster on hand as dad gives up kids — 2007-05-04
Syracuse Post-Standard
Tampa Tribune
- Tampa Tribune: Missionary supported in hour of need — 1999-05-23
Telegraph (Australia)
- Daily Telegraph: Fighting back - Children of God say life is hell since police took them — 1997-11-01
- Daily Telegraph: Sect raids 'unlawful' — 1999-02-02
- Daily Telegraph: Raids to take sect children illegal - judge — 1999-04-01
- Daily Telegraph:Sect children's case settled — 1999-05-29
- Sunday Telegraph: The perfect big read for summer — 2008-01-06
Telegraph (London)
- Sunday Telegraph Magazine: Family Values — 1997-01-05
- Daily Telegraph: They told us we might have to die — 2002-02-28
Texas Monthly
- Texas Monthly: Let the Love Light Shine — 1973-10-01
Time Magazine
- Time Magazine: Whose Children? — 1972-01-24
- Time Magazine: Children of Doom — 1974-02-18
- Time Magazine: Tracking the Children of God — 1977-08-22
Times Education Supplement
- Times Education Supplement: Cult watch — 2007-12-14
Times-Picayune
- Times-Picayune: 'Death Is A Vacation' — 1995-07-18
- Times-Picayune: Trial starts in Gretna killing — 2004-07-15
Toronto Star
- Toronto Star: 33-year-old Metro woman linked to sex-for-salvation cult — 1993-09-06
- Toronto Star: Metro woman in 'sex cult' probe — 1993-09-06
- Toronto Star: Sect members deny abuse stories — 1993-09-07
- Toronto Star: Two Canadian cult members arrested in Argentina — 1993-09-07
- Toronto Star: Anti-cult organization blamed for arrests — 1993-09-08
- Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges — 1993-09-08
- Toronto Star: Couple held after bid to visit kids in custody — 1993-09-13
- Toronto Star: 'We've been totally and falsely accused' Family mom insists — 1993-09-15
- Toronto Star: Tests disprove sect's family ties — 1993-09-21
- Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case — 1993-12-14
Tucson Citizen
- Tucson Citizen: Police probe ties between victim, killer — 2005-01-11
- Tucson Citizen: Murder suspect, a suicide, raised by cult to lead — 2005-01-12
- Tucson Citizen: Authors try to repair The Family's circle of despair — 2007-11-29
UC Berkeley News
UPI
- UPI: Ministry will seek custody of cult children — 1983-03-23
US Magazine
- US Magazine: Strange Days — 1995-10
Uncut
- Uncut: Walking With Demons — 2001-03
Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas)
Variety
- Variety: Slamdance screening ends in melee — 2007-01-24
Washington Post
- Washington Post: Children of God Suit Ended — 1973-08-03
- Washington Post: New York Would Place Children of God Under State Scrutiny — 1974-02-15
- Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest — 1993-06-02
- Washington Post: 30 Members of Children Of God Arrested — 1993-09-02
Weekly Observer
- Weekly Observer: Cult Activity in Uganda? — 2008-02-14
Western Daily News
- Western Daily Press: Charismatic leader who preached paedophilia — 2007-07-18
- Western Daily Press: Free of cult's clutches to tell their harrowing story — 2007-07-18
What Magazine
- What Magazine: Bait on the hook: a cult experience — 1998-05-01
Xinhua News Agency
Non-English-language press
see: Categoría:Prensa in our Spanish wiki for extended list of Spanish coverage.
- (Danish) Kristeligt Dagblads: Hævnmord efter opvækst i sekt — 2005-01-26
- (Dutch) Het Volk: Messias van sekte wordt moordenaar uit wraak — 2005-02-02
- (German) Spiegel: Geboren in eine Sekte: Der tödliche Ausstieg des Ricky Rodriguez — 2007-11-30
- (Norwegian) Dagbladet: Guds misbrukte barn — 2005-04-09
- (Spanish) Ventana: La Secta los Niños de Dios Bajo Lupa del Juez de Menores Cámpora — 1993-07
- (Spanish) La Nacion: Los Ninos de Dios, exegeta con vertientes sexuales — 1993-09-12
- (Spanish) SOMOS: Los Niños de Dios - Como Fue la Investigacion — 1993-09-13
- (Spanish) Clarin: Piden a Interpol la captura del reverendo que fundó la secta — 1993-09-15
- (Spanish) Gente: Habla Joyanne Treadwell Berg — 1993-09-15
- (Spanish) Cronica: "Niños de Dios": Liberan a una Nena y la Entregan a su padre Brasileño — 1993-09-25
- (Spanish) La Nacion: Tres paises reclamaron niños que vivian con La Familia — 1993-09-25
- (Spanish) Noticias a Fondo: ¿Quien Ampara a la secta Niños de Dios? — 1993-11
- (Spanish) Página 12: Reclamos por La Familia — 1993-11-13
- (Spanish) Cronica: "Niños de Dios": Padres Reclaman — 1993-11-30
- (Spanish) La Nacion: Claves de una organizacion con ramnificaciones internacionales — 1993-12-10
- (Spanish) La Nacion: Quarracino cuestiono por TV la liberacion de miembros de una secta — 1993-12-19
- (Spanish) Protagonistas de Mercedes: Informe especial sobre libertad — 1993-12-20
- (Spanish) Protagonistas de Mercedes: Llego hasta Mercedes el consul de E.E.U.U. — 1993-12-27
- (Spanish) Protagonistas de Mercedes: Nuevo golpe de la justicia Mercedina a la secta La Familia — 1994-08-08
- (Spanish) Protagonistas de Mercedes: Mas detalles sobre el golpe a la secta La Familia — 1994-08-15
- (Spanish) Clarin: Detienen a un ex integrante de la secta Niños de Dios — 1997-07-05
- (Spanish) La Nacion: Detienen en Mercedes a un miembro de la secta Niños de Dios — 1997-07-05
- (Spanish) Diario Popular: Detienen a un depravado que violaba menores — 1997-07-05
- (Spanish) La Prensa: La Justicia de E.E.U.U. pidió la extradición de un argentino — 1998-07-11
- (Spanish) ACI Prensa: Juez aprueba veracidad de libro sobre oculta historia de secta argentina — 2001-10-04
- (Spanish) AP Spanish Online: Video de homicida-suicida renueva polémica sobre secta comunal — 2005-01-25
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