Australian News Index 2007:

• Kenja: - December 6, 2007
  Cult strikes back - Kenja critic assault a lie: court told
  
• Full Gospel Mission Fellowship: - Oct. 16, 2007
  Today’s police raids throughout the North Island in a hunt for arms have precedents in major operations 30 and 20 years ago...
  
• Scientology: - Oct. 15, 2007
  A Sydney woman accused of stabbing to death her Scientologist father and teenage sister was suffering a psychotic episode...
  
• Exclusive Brethren: - Oct. 15, 2007
  A former member of the Exclusive Brethren has revealed the secretive religious sect has been transferring large sums of money across the world, possibly to fund political campaigns in Australia and the US.
  
• Maha Devi Ascension Movement: - Oct, 9, 2007
  Members of a cult which ran up substantial debts in Niue have been flown to Sydney, after the government ordered them to leave.
  
• Scientology:Scientologists given accused’s psychiatric file - Sep. 28, 2007
  The Church of Scientology has been granted access to a confidential psychiatric report tendered as evidence in the trial of a Sydney woman accused of murdering her family earlier this year.
  
• Nicole: I've lost my kids to Scientology - Sep. 10, 2007
  The actress reveals her heartbreak as Isabella and Connor choose Tom Cruise's religion over their mother.
  
• Rudd Brethren stance indicates deal: PM - August 24, 2007
  Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's refusal to meet with the Exclusive Brethren Christian sect indicates he has done a preference deal with the Greens, Prime Minister John Howard says.
  
• Cult leader gets longer jail sentence - August 24, 2007
  Cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet William Kamm has been sentenced to an extra four years in jail for raping one of his former followers.
  
• Exclusive Brethren attacks Australian opposition leader Kevin Rudd - August 23, 2007
  The separatist conservative Christian movement, the Exclusive Brethren Church, has accused Kevin Rudd of unwarranted and inaccurate slurs against its members.
  
• Campaign to clear cult leader - August 11, 2007
  The truth - according to Jan Hamilton - will cost you.
  
• Dedicated followers left rudderless in a sceptical world - August 4, 2007
  David Millikan spent weeks with Ken Dyers making a film about him. Here, he recounts his strange experiences with a man convinced he had extraordinary powers.
  
• Ken Dyers: Tributes and accusations - August 4, 2007
  Two sets of eyes have been scanning website tributes to the late Ken Dyers.
  
• Hillsong: - the church with no answers - August 4, 2007
  When a former member of the Hillsong congregation started asking hard questions, she was thrown out...
  
• Cult leader Dyers 'now a martyr' - Jul 30, 2007
  Australian cult leader Ken Dyers committed suicide last week but the controversy around him and his Kenja group has not died with him.
  
• Questions about Steiner's classroom - July 28, 2007
  Ray Pereira could not believe what he was hearing. His son's teacher had just said his child had to repeat prep because the boy's soul had not fully incarnated.
  
• Followers hit back over suicide of Kenja cult leader - July 27, 2007
  The followers of a cult leader who took his own life have blamed his death on those who pursued him over child sex charges.
  
• Kenja Communcation leader commits suicide - July 27, 2007
  Kenneth Dyers, 85, founder of spiritual organisation, Kenja Communications, was found dead at his Bundeena home today.
  
• Kenja: - July 26, 2007
  Sordid shame of sex sect
  
• Sydney cult leader found dead - July 25, 2007
  The leader and co-founder of a Sydney based healing cult facing trial on multiple alleged sex abuse offences against two 12-year-old Sydney girls was found dead today.
  
• Kenja: - July 13, 2007
  Films - "BEYOND OUR KEN" Melbourne Film Festival WORLD PREMIERE
  
• Scientology: - July 12, 2007
  Secret Scientology letter war exposed
  
• 'Scientology:The cult of disbelief. - July 11, 2007
  ARTHUR and Lawana Beals knew their son Gary was in trouble. He had been tormented for years by voices in his head but he had always shunned their advice to seek psychiatric care.
  
• 'I just butchered my family' - July 9, 2007
  The parents of a woman accused of murdering her father and sister apparently declined psychiatric treatment for her last year because of their Scientology beliefs, a report tendered in court states.
  
• Soul Freedom: - June 23, 2007
  Fears for mum who joined 'angel worship' sect
  
• Canadian hospital refuses kidney donation from religious cult member - June 4, 2007
  A Canadian hospital has refused to accept the offer from an Australian religious cult member of a kidney to a stranger as a way of expressing his faith in God. Sydney man Ash Falkingham is a member of the Jesus Christians, a group led by guru David Mckay, who believe kidney donation is the “ultimate” expression of faith.
  
• Man brainwashed by kidney cult - June 4, 2007
  A Sydney member of a controversial religious group plans to donate a kidney to a Canadian woman he barely knows, as a way of expressing his faith in God.
  
• Order of Saint Charbel - May 30, 2007
  A self-proclaimed prophet known as Little Pebble has been found guilty of sex offences against a girl more than 10 years ago.
  
• Police to quiz Brethren sect - May 25, 2007
  Electoral officials have referred a $10 company set up by an Exclusive Brethren member to the Australian Federal Police for investigation.
  
• James Packer Network Program Denies Soft Story About Scientology - May 18, 2007
  James Packer’s Nine Network last night used its flagship current affairs program to spoil a critical story about the secretive Church of Scientology on the rival Seven Network.
  
• Scientology: - May 16, 2007
  the life of its founder certainly warrants a close look
  
• Cult Leader Cashes In - May 10, 2007
  HELIDON cult leader Debra Geileskey is selling up her million-dollar Lockyer Valley rural retreat and has moved to the US.
  
• Mother Leaves With Children For Sydney After Reunion - May 4, 2007
  Brisbane mother Philippa Yelland has flown out of Tasmania bound for Sydney with her two daughters and son, along with a cult-busting journalist, after her husband surrendered the children to police.
  
• Missing Children's 'Nature Tour' - May 3, 2007
  Runaway father Murray Robertson, 57, said he had taken his three children on a six-week nature tour of Tasmania while authorities conducted a nationwide hunt for them.
  
• Police probe Exclusive Brethren sex abuse claims - Apr. 20, 2007
  Police are investigating claims from three women that they were sexually abused by a reportedly senior member of the Exclusive Brethren sect when they were children.
  
• New Zealand government accuses Exclusive Brethren of lying - Apr. 19, 2007
  The Government has lashed out at the Australia-based Exclusive Brethren church, accusing it of lying about its involvement in trying to sway the results of elections in New Zealand.
  
• Bhagwan Rajneesh - Apr. 12, 2007
  Claims of sham marriages between followers of controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh in northern NSW are being investigated by the federal Government.
  
• Orange People’s Sect Appeal - Apr. 11, 2007
  David Honeycombe was bemused when he was introduced to the circle of friends attached to his new girlfriend in the northern NSW tourist town of Byron Bay last year.
  
• Scientologists - March 28, 2007
  A HUMAN rights youth forum at Parliament House in Sydney promoted the views of the Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and was organised by a group linked to the Church of Scientology.
  
• The Exclusive Brethren and the rights of children - March 14, 2007
  Justice Benjamin ... described the Brethren's attempts to prevent the children seeing their estranged father, as 'psychologically cruel, unacceptable and abusive.'
  
• Jung Myung Seok: Claims sect using social groups to recruit members - Mar. 10, 2007
  A fringe religious sect, which has reportedly brainwashed young women for sex with a messianic South Korean leader, has been accused of recruiting potential members through a soccer team based at Sydney University.
  
• Book of Revelations - March 7, 2007
  Tanya Levin spent her formative years at Hillsong. Disillusioned, she began to question its gospel of wealth. We present her exclusive account of life inside Australia's most influential evangelical church.
  
• Unhappy Clappy: Hillsong blocks book publication - February 27, 2007
  Lawyers have canned a tell-all book on life inside Australia's most powerful evangelical church, writes Jennifer Sexton.
  
• Jesus Christians, David McKay: A Jury of His Peers - Jan. 4, 2007
  The Jesus Christians carry out their unusual form of justice.