| Organization
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Founded
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Status
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Founder
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Current leader
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Current name
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| Alamo Christian Foundation
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Active
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Tony Alamo; Susan Alamo
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| Amnesty International
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1961
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Active
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Peter Benenson
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Agnès Callamard
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| Ant Hill Kids
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Unknown
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| Aum Shinrikyo
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1987
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Active
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Shoko Asahara
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No single leader
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Aleph / other successor groups
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| Branch Davidians
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1955
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Active
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Benjamin Roden
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Trent Wilde (one continuing group)
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Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists and related claimant groups
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| Church of Bible Understanding
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Active
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| Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God
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Unknown
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| Church of the Living Word
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1951
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Active
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John Robert Stevens, Christianity, cult, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Gate, California, John Robert Stevens, Jesus, 1 John 1, Jewish festivals, Hebrew Bible, Bible, Trinity, Christ (title), Spiritual gift, Holy Spirit in Christianity, Paul the Apostle, Kalona, Iowa, Anthony Cox (producer), , ,
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John Robert Stevens
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The Living Word Fellowship
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| Church of Wells
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2011
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Active
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Sean Morris, Jake Gardner, Ryan Ringnald
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Ryan Ringnald
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| Church Universal and Triumphant
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1975
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Unknown
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, New Age, religious organization, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Theosophy, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Gardiner, Montana, Theosophy, "I AM" Activity, Mark L. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Montana, Alzheimer's disease, Communism, Millenarianism, anti-cult movement, cult, doomsday cult, new religious movement, sect, New Age, Catholic Church, Church militant and church triumphant, Mary Baker Eddy, Alice A. Bailey, Western esotericism, New Age, ascended master, David V. Barrett, Count of St. Germain, Samuel, Joseph, Merlin, Roger Bacon, Christopher Columbus, Francis Bacon, Judeo-Christian, Jesus of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene, reincarnation, Roman Empire, Atlantis, AIDS, Emma Curtis Hopkins, New Thought, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, socialism, macrobiotic diet, Rock music,  , Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky, Theosophical Society, Guy Ballard, St. Germain (Theosophy), Mount Shasta, J. Gordon Melton, Golden Age, Francis Ekey, Pentecostalism, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Boston University, political science, Christian Science,  , Maria Montessori,  , Pope John XXIII, Virgin Mary, Malibu, California, Mulholland Highway, zoning laws, anti-cult movement, Jonestown, mass suicide, Peoples Temple, brainwashing,  , Teton Mountains, Malcolm Forbes, Rajneesh, Ashland, Oregon, Gallatin National Forest, Yellowstone, Wayne Owens, Nichiren Shoshu,  , glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev, Thanksgiving, Internal Revenue Service, anti-cult movement, Chelsea, Vermont, Insider Inc., Oxford University Press, James R. Lewis (scholar), anti-cult movement, Cult Awareness Network, new religious movement, cult, Livingston Enterprise, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, sleep deprivation, Newspapers.com, Skeptic (American magazine), Stephen A. Kent, Church of Scientology, The Family International, Great White Brotherhood, Legends of Mount Shasta, Saint Germain Foundation, Skeptic Magazine, The Skeptics Society, , , , , , , , , , , ,
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| Colonia Dignidad
|
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Active
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| Destiny Church (New Zealand)
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Active
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Brian Tamaki, Hannah Tamaki
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Destiny Church
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| Divine Light Mission
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Unknown
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|
|
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| Eckankar
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1965
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Active
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Paul Twitchell
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Doug Kunin
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| Falun Gong
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|
Active
|
|
|
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| Fellowship of Friends
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1970
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Active
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Robert Earl Burton
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Robert Earl Burton
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| Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
|
1935
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Active
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Lorin C. Woolley
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Warren Jeffs
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FLDS Church
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| Good News International Ministries
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2003
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Closed 2019
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Paul Nthenge Mackenzie
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|
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| Greenpeace
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1971
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Active
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Irving Stowe, Dorothy Stowe, Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, Bill Darnell, Bob Hunter, Ben Metcalfe, Patrick Moore
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Mads Christensen
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| Happy Science
|
1986
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Active
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Ryuho Okawa
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Happy Science 幸福の科学
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| Heaven's Gate
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1974
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Closed 1997
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Marshall Applewhite, Bonnie Nettles
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None
|
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| House of Yahweh
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1980
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Active
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Yisrayl Hawkins
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|
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| International Churches of Christ
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Active
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| International Committee of the Red Cross
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1863
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Active
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Henry Dunant, Gustave Moynier, Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Louis Appia, Théodore Maunoir
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Mirjana Spoljaric Egger
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| International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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1966
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Active
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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| Jesus Christians
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Active
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| Kashi Ashram
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Active
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| La Luz del Mundo
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1926
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Active
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Aarón Joaquín González
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Naasón Joaquín García
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Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World
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| Love Has Won
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Active
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Amy Carlson (religious leader)
|
Amy Carlson (religious leader)
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| Manson Family
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Active
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Charles Manson, Leiden, Boston, Brill Publishers
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|
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| Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
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1989
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Closed 2000
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Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere
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|
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| Nation of Yahweh
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Active
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| NXIVM
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|
Active
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|
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NXIVM Corporation
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| Oneness Movement
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Active
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|
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Oneness Pentecostalism
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| Order of the Solar Temple
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1984
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Closed 1994
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Joseph Di Mambro, Luc Jouret
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None
|
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| Peoples Temple
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1955
|
Closed 1978
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Jim Jones
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None
|
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| Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
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1848
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Active
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John Nelson Darby, Wiley-Blackwell
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Bruce Hales
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| Raelian movement
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Active
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Raël
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Raël
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Raëlism
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| Rajneesh movement
|
1970
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Active
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Rajneesh
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No single leader
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Osho movement / Osho International Foundation
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| Remnant Fellowship
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|
Active
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| Rotary International
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1905
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Active
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Paul Harris
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Paul P. Harris
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| Sahaja Yoga
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|
Active
|
|
|
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| School of Economic Science
|
1938
|
Active
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Leon MacLaren
|
Leon MacLaren
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School of Philosophy and Economic Science
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| Scientology
|
1952
|
Active
|
L. Ron Hubbard
|
David Miscavige
|
Church of Scientology
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| Shincheonji Church of Jesus
|
1984
|
Active
|
Lee Man-hee
|
Lee Man-hee
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Shincheonji
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| Soka Gakkai
|
1930
|
Active
|
Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda, Daisaku Ikeda
|
Minoru Harada
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Sōka Gakkai
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| Synanon
|
1958
|
Closed 1991
|
Charles Dederich Sr.
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|
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| The Family (Australian New Age group)
|
|
Unknown
|
|
|
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| The Family International
|
1968
|
Active
|
David Berg
|
Karen Zerby
|
|
| The Way International
|
|
Active
|
|
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The Way International Victor Paul Wierwille
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| Twelve Tribes communities
|
1972
|
Active
|
Elbert "Gene" Spriggs
|
Elbert "Gene" Spriggs
|
Twelve Tribes
|
| Unification Church
|
1954
|
Active
|
Sun Myung Moon
|
Hak Ja Han
|
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
|
| Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
|
1977
|
Active
|
Edir Macedo
|
Edir Macedo
|
|
| Wikimedia Foundation
|
2003
|
Active
|
Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesley Starling
|
Bernadette Meehan
|
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
|
| Word of Faith Fellowship
|
|
Active
|
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