Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

Caritas

Caritas Called "Cult" in Ex-member Suit

Five former members of Caritas, a multimillion-dollar organization that promotes visions of the Virgin Mary, have sued the organization in Alabama state court claiming that leader Terry Colafrancesco lures people into Caritas with promises of spiritual enrichment and then drains them of money, forces families to live in nasty trailers at the group's compound, and controls their lives almost totally. 

Plaintiffs include a one-time Colafrancesco lieutenant and five parents suing on behalf of their children, who still live among some 50 mostly Roman Catholics at the Caritas mission, 50 miles south of Birmingham. Since the visit to Alabama in 1988 of Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, one of six young people who claim to have seen the Virgin in the town of Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia, Caritas has become one of the largest organizations dedicated to spreading the messages of Medjugorje. (AP, Birmingham, AL Ledger -Inquirer, 12/13/01, Internet)

News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

Caritas

Caritas Called "Cult" in Ex-member Suit

Five former members of Caritas, a multimillion-dollar organization that promotes visions of the Virgin Mary, have sued the organization in Alabama state court claiming that leader Terry Colafrancesco lures people into Caritas with promises of spiritual enrichment and then drains them of money, forces families to live in nasty trailers at the group's compound, and controls their lives almost totally. 

Plaintiffs include a one-time Colafrancesco lieutenant and five parents suing on behalf of their children, who still live among some 50 mostly Roman Catholics at the Caritas mission, 50 miles south of Birmingham. Since the visit to Alabama in 1988 of Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, one of six young people who claim to have seen the Virgin in the town of Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia, Caritas has become one of the largest organizations dedicated to spreading the messages of Medjugorje. (AP, Birmingham, AL Ledger -Inquirer, 12/13/01, Internet)

News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

Caritas

Caritas Called "Cult" in Ex-member Suit

Five former members of Caritas, a multimillion-dollar organization that promotes visions of the Virgin Mary, have sued the organization in Alabama state court claiming that leader Terry Colafrancesco lures people into Caritas with promises of spiritual enrichment and then drains them of money, forces families to live in nasty trailers at the group's compound, and controls their lives almost totally. 

Plaintiffs include a one-time Colafrancesco lieutenant and five parents suing on behalf of their children, who still live among some 50 mostly Roman Catholics at the Caritas mission, 50 miles south of Birmingham. Since the visit to Alabama in 1988 of Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, one of six young people who claim to have seen the Virgin in the town of Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia, Caritas has become one of the largest organizations dedicated to spreading the messages of Medjugorje. (AP, Birmingham, AL Ledger -Inquirer, 12/13/01, Internet)

News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

Caritas

Caritas Called "Cult" in Ex-member Suit

Five former members of Caritas, a multimillion-dollar organization that promotes visions of the Virgin Mary, have sued the organization in Alabama state court claiming that leader Terry Colafrancesco lures people into Caritas with promises of spiritual enrichment and then drains them of money, forces families to live in nasty trailers at the group's compound, and controls their lives almost totally. 

Plaintiffs include a one-time Colafrancesco lieutenant and five parents suing on behalf of their children, who still live among some 50 mostly Roman Catholics at the Caritas mission, 50 miles south of Birmingham. Since the visit to Alabama in 1988 of Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, one of six young people who claim to have seen the Virgin in the town of Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia, Caritas has become one of the largest organizations dedicated to spreading the messages of Medjugorje. (AP, Birmingham, AL Ledger -Inquirer, 12/13/01, Internet)

News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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