Category:Press

Following is an archive of press relating to The Family / Children of God from around the globe.

ABC News

• ABC News: New Focus on Fringe Religious Sect — 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

Akron Beacon Journal

• Akron Beacon Journal: Former Cultist Now Preaches Against Religious Entrapment — 1985-04-27

Alberta Report/Western Report

• Alberta Report-Western Report: Badly kept Family secrets — 1995-05-08

Allentown Morning Call

• Allentown Morning Call: Man battled depression before shooting sibling, self — 2002-09-08

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

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: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days — 1998-07-25

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: 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

Birmingham News

• Birmingham News: New Home, Old Questions Controversies of Past Follow Communal Group — 1995-07-21

Chattanooga Times

• Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown — 1993-09-03

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

Christian Research Journal

• Christian Research Journal: Inside the "Heavenly Elite — Summer, 1990

Christianity Today

• Christianity Today: The Children of God: Fewer and Far Out — 1980-01-25

Cleveland Plain Dealer

• Cleveland Plain Dealer: Authorities Seize 140 Cult Children — 1992-05-16

Daily Camera (Denver)

• Daily Camera: Parenting Award Controversial — 1999-08-06

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 Telegraph, London

• Daily Telegraph: They told us we might have to die — 2002-02-28

Dallas Morning News

• Dallas Morning News: Area watchdog groups say families torn apart by sects' control of members — 1986-08-18

Edwardsville Intelligencer

• Edwardsville Intelligencer: 'Jesus Communes' Opposed by Parents — 1973-06-16

Evening Standard, London

• Evening Standard: The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God — 2005-03-09

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

Hillsboro Post Gazette

• Hillsboro Post Gazette: Covered Wagon Travel Rewarding — 1976-01-30

Hollywood Reporter

• Hollywood Reporter: HBO Documentary Focuses on Cult Kids — 2004-04-26

Houston Chronicle

• 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: Sex in the name of God — 1990-02-04
• 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

Irish Times

• Irish Times: Helping to Take the Cult Out of the Man — 2005-03-21

Kennebec Journal

• Kennebec Journal: 20 youths arrested in raid on commune — 1976-12-04

Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Ontario, Canada

• Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Defending the Family — 1993-09-10

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

London Times

• London Times: Revenge of a son on cult of free love — 2005-01-23

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

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

Manly Daily

• Manly Daily: Colony Comes to Town— 1973-03-24

Macleans, Canada

• Macleans: Not a normal family — 1993-09-20

Marie Claire, Australia

• Marie Claire: "Killing Myself is the Only Way Out of the Cult" — 2005-04-19

Marysville Journal Tribune

• Marysville Journal Tribune: "Children Of God" Using Sex To Recruit — 1979-12-07

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

National Enquirer

• National Enquirer: I was a Hooker for Heaven in an Evil Sex Cult — 1999-07-06

New York Times

• 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 Communes'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

Nevada State Journal

• Nevada State Journal: Teen flees cult, says mind was kidnapped — 1975-08-11

Newsday (Melville, NY)

• Newsday: 10 Commune Arrests — 1990-07-10

Oakland Tribune

• Oakland Tribune: Covina Man Still Tied to Church Suit — 1975-01-01

The Observer, UK

• 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

Oui Magazine

• Oui Magazine: Murder Most Foul — 1975-02

People Magazine

• People Magazine: Was the Family Doing God's Work - Or Unspeakable Harm? — 2005-07-18

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

The Post Crescent

• Post Crescent: 20 from free-love cult arrested in Argentina — 1976-12-04

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.)

• The Progress: Children of God Sect Grips Thousands of Parents — 1974-11-20

Rocky Mountain News

• Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest — 1993-06-11

Rolling Stone

• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One — 2005-06-30

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: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal' — 2005-02-27

San Jose Mercury News

• San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined — 2005-01-18

Sydney Morning Herald

• Sydney Morning Herald: Seizure of sect children ruled unlawful — 1999-04-01

Syracuse Post-Standard

• Syracuse Post-Standard: Parents Frightened By Sect's Impact — 1972-02-22

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-Picayune

• Times-Picayune: 'Death Is A Vacation' — 1995-07-18

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

US Magazine

• US Magazine: Strange Days — October 1995

Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas)

• Valley Morning Star: Parents Charge Children Victims of Racket Cult — 1971-10-16

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

What Magazine

• What Magazine: Bait on the hook: a cult experience — 1998-05-01

Xinhua News Agency

• Xinhua News Agency: Kenya Warns Over British Evil Cult — 2000-03-23

Non- English-language press

• Clarin: Piden a Interpol la captura del reverendo que fundó la secta — 1993-09-15
• La Prensa: La Justicia de E.E.U.U. pidió la extradición de un argentino — 1998-07-11
• AP Spanish Online: Video de homicida-suicida renueva polémica sobre secta comunal — 2005-01-25
• Het Volk: Messias van sekte wordt moordenaar uit wraak — 2005-02-02
• Dagbladet: Guds misbrukte barn — 2005-04-09