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The Family International is a Christian cult founded by David Berg in 1968. It went through several name changes, including The Children of God, and was accused of child abuse and sexual exploitation.
David Berg (1919-1994) was a controversial religious leader who founded the cult known as the Children of God and later as The Family International. He was expelled from several churches, advocated sexuality and prostitution, and wrote hundreds of letters to his followers.
Berg's cult spread and claimed to have 10,000 full-time members in 130 communities around the world by the 1970s. Hollywood stars Rose McGowan and Joaquin Phoenix were born into the cult. Rose...
Two Ottawa residents share their stories of being members of the Children of God, a notorious religious cult that practised sexual exploitation and abuse. They reveal how they were recruited,...
Jonathan Watt and Verity Carter's father was the first man to be convicted of sexual abuse linked to the Children of God cult in Scotland.
The Children of God were the subject of an international documentary, Children of the Cult, that describes the church as one of the "world's most notorious and prolific cults". Now known as The Family International , and previously Teens for Christ and The Family of Love, the church has been accused of sexual and physical abuse on numerous ...
In 1968, former priest David Berg founded Teens for Christ, which evolved to become the infamous Children of God cult, characterized by allegations of rape, child abuse, and religious prostitution....