Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Governing Body moves the four main blood components to personal conscience while keeping the whole-blood ban. Critics say the change comes too late for those who died under the old rule.

In the UK, BBC File on 4 revisits Crewe’s Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light investigation and books the Brussels non-governmental organisation (NGO) Human Rights Without Frontiers as its religious-freedom voice. The same NGO has defended the Unification Church (the Moonies) and Scientology.

Czech courts free two women from Kutná Hora, a town east of Prague, pending dovolání, an extraordinary Supreme Court appeal, after murder sentences for killing their guru. France’s Athanor leader sees his rape conviction raised to twenty years on appeal.

HBO Max drops El buen espíritu on Opus Dei numerarios, celibate members who live under the organisation’s discipline, as Spanish and Dutch press weigh recruitment and control. Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) friction shadows Pope Leo’s France visit after Lourdes, the Marian shrine in the Pyrenees, bars an SSPX pilgrimage.

Lighthouse’s leader emails BBC staff “God Help Catrin Nye” after a Crown Court appeal loss. French outlets cover Élodie Emery’s La face cachée du yoga on sexual violence and emprise, psychological hold, in yoga teaching.

Beyond Europe, Kenyan authorities move toward burying 443 unclaimed Shakahola remains.

In Australia, leaked ministries from Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC / Exclusive Brethren) leader Bruce Hales, and Northern Territory election-inquiry claims of booth intimidation, keep the church in the news.

Also this week: a Dutch embezzlement case tied to Happy Happy money, the Védrines family château case in south-west France, an El País interview with a private detective who refused further cult jobs, Latvian “neesam sekta” (“we are not a cult”) politics, and a crash in Belgrade’s Karaburma district near the old Crna Ruža site.

Jehovah’s Witnesses ease the ban on blood components

The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses said on Friday 18 September that each Witness may now decide whether to accept donated red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets. Whole-blood transfusions remain banned under the group’s reading of Acts 15:20.

Donation of blood for the purpose of providing components or fractions is also left to conscience. Congregations, the announcement said, “will not get involved” and believers should not judge others who accept components.

The shift follows a March 2026 loosening that already allowed autologous use of a Witness’s own stored blood. This is the first allogeneic opening: donated blood from another person.

Paul Gillies, an international spokesman, told outlets that blood remains “sacred” and that medical decisions on components sit between each Witness and Jehovah.

The Telegraph in London carried the story on 22 September. John Viney, an ex-Witness quoted by Humanists UK, said the U-turn could not “bring back those thousands that missed the ‘update’.”

ABC News in Australia and the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) clinical bulletin also summarised the change for clinicians and bereaved families.

File on 4 returns to Crewe’s Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 Investigates aired “Has a cult come to town?” on 22 September, about 37 minutes with Hayley Mortimer and Emir Nader. The episode revisits the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) at Webb House in Crewe, a town in Cheshire in north-west England, after Cheshire Police’s large April 2026 raid.

Suspects remain on conditional bail. Chester Magistrates have issued interim Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders against Abdullah Hashem and others. There is no criminal conviction on the slavery and sex allegations.

In a BBC News companion, AbdelRahman Hashem said his brother Abdullah had “kind of hijacked” the movement and that he does not believe Abdullah is the Mahdi. Abdullah Hashem’s lawyer called that claim false and damaging.

Crewe Nub News noted that File on 4 also revived attention on Lisa, a missing former wife of the leader. Police say the Crewe criminal probe is not linked to her disappearance.

Freedom Times covered the April raids on Webb House and returned to Crewe and Chester in the 13 September weekly.

On air, File on 4 interviewed Willy Fautré, director of the Brussels non-governmental organisation (NGO) Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), which has advocated for AROPL since about 2023. Fautré said the 500-officer raid was “not proportionate” and had reinforced a latent racism and anti-migrant atmosphere.

On 23 September HRWF published its own critique of what the episode allegedly failed to investigate.

That Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) framing of AROPL as a stigmatised minority sits against a documented defence record. HRWF co-signed a June 2026 appeal for police protection of AROPL members.

In October 2023 Willy Fautré was among twelve NGO signatories denouncing Japan’s petition to dissolve the Unification Church / Family Federation. Japan’s Supreme Court finalised that dissolution on 23 June 2026 on civil donation-tort findings.

In South Korea, the Supreme Court finalised a prison term for former Unification official Yoon Young-ho on 9 July 2026. Han Hak-ja received a two-year district sentence on 31 August 2026 that both sides have appealed and is not final.

HRWF has also framed Scientology as a stigmatised minority in FoRB pieces, while French courts upheld organised-fraud convictions against Scientology entities through cassation in October 2013. HRWF has likewise published sustained advocacy for Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Belgian Ghent chronology and co-signed a November 2024 open letter on Shincheonji’s Paju venue dispute.

Kutná Hora women free pending Supreme Court appeal

In Czechia the Supreme Court has stayed execution of the murder sentences on Magdalena Šifferová, a dentist given nine years, and Irena Stejskalová, given twelve. Both are free while their dovolání, extraordinary appeals to the Supreme Court, are decided.

The convictions for killing Richard Šiffer in a Prague flat in October 2022 still stand until the court rules. Czech outlets frame the case around the Kutná Hora sekta, the local word for cult. Kutná Hora is a historic town about 70 kilometres east of Prague.

The Herald in Scotland summarised the ritual killing. Šiffer took a sedative, then the women cut and injected him, believing his body would vanish as he returned to another world. When it did not, they called police.

Šifferová told the earlier trial, in the English rendering carried by The Herald:

“The moment he left, there was an emptiness inside me, a black hole, I thought the world apocalypse was going to happen.”

Court spokespeople stressed that interrupting a murder sentence for appeal does not prejudge the outcome.

Athanor leader’s rape sentence rises to twenty years

In France the Aude assizes, a criminal jury court in southern France, on 24 September aggravated the rape conviction of Jorge Martins Correia, 53, leader of the Montpellier Athanor group. The sentence rose from eighteen years’ réclusion at the Hérault criminal court in 2025 to twenty years.

Correia denies the rapes and sexual assaults on followers and relatives. Midi Libre and France 3 described polyamour sessions, LSD and MDMA, and testimony from former members.

French outlets describe Athanor as a small association Correia founded in Montpellier, a city on France’s Mediterranean coast, after turning from cleaning work to self-styled psychotherapy around 2017. Followers lived in a city-centre shared flat under his direction.

Courts treated it as a sectarian-type association promoting polyamour and drug-assisted “therapy.” There is no sourced record of a wider European network beyond the Montpellier base.

Advocate-general Jean-Luc Beck had again asked for eighteen years. On the risk of reoffending he told the court:

« Le risque de récidive est évident »

An ex-adept quoted ahead of judgment said she had been embrigadée (recruited into the group’s control) among “childlike” profiles at Athanor.

Opus Dei on HBO Max: El buen espíritu

HBO Max in Spain dropped the three-part Mediapro series El buen espíritu on 25 September. It is a male-numerario sequel thread to El minuto heroico. Numerarios are celibate Opus Dei members who typically live in the organisation’s centres and surrender salary under its discipline.

ARA, Catalonia’s newspaper, said documentary maker Mònica Terribas had returned to Opus Dei control, recruitment and salary surrender. elDiario.es carried further testimony from former members.

Dutch daily Trouw covered the same release under a headline asking whether family-video happiness was in fact a zingende sekte, a “singing cult,” and quoted Terribas. Opus Dei had not commented as of the Spanish press coverage.

SSPX friction around Pope Leo’s France visit

France 24 reported on 24–25 September that schism friction with the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) shadowed Pope Leo’s visit to France. The bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes barred the Society’s annual Christ the King pilgrimage from sanctuary venues at Lourdes, the Marian pilgrimage town in the French Pyrenees.

Those venues include the underground halls of the Basilica of Saint Pius X that usually draw thousands of European pilgrims each October.

July 2026 excommunications after illicit consecrations of four bishops at Écône, the Society’s seminary in Switzerland, without papal consent remain background to this week’s pilgrimage row, not a fresh adjudication. The Vatican decree also treated lay members who “formally adhere” as schismatic.

France 24 labels the Society a rebel “sect” in English. Founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre against Vatican II reforms, the Society insists on the Latin Mass and rejects religious freedom and interfaith dialogue as framed after the Council.

France 24 puts worldwide membership at roughly 600,000, with the largest contingents in France and the United States. It notes a Paris bastion at Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, and a network of hors contrat schools, private schools outside the French state-funding contract, especially in Brittany and the Vendée in western France.

Society leaders in France struck a conciliatory tone ahead of the papal visit. Father Gonzague Peignot said the visit was an honour for French Catholics and that Society churches would mark it with prayer, not High Mass, while watching papal comments on euthanasia and France’s constitutional abortion clause.

The Society is appealing the excommunications. The story remains a traditionalist schism dispute over Mass, venues and episcopal authority.

Lighthouse emails BBC staff after appeal loss

BBC journalist Catrin Nye said on Instagram that the Crown Court appeal by three Lighthouse associates convicted of harassing her was dismissed last week. The next day, she said, the group’s leader sent her a roughly 6,000-word email headed “God Help Catrin Nye” and circulated it to more than 500 BBC staff.

Nye’s caption recalled the earlier harassment case behind A Very British Cult, her BBC podcast and film on Lighthouse. Three members had been convicted after visits to her home with placards bearing her face, neighbourhood leaflets calling her a liar and a danger to children, and an appearance at a soft-play centre where she was with her children.

Freedom Times covered the appeal dismissals in the 20 September weekly. Kristofer Deichler, Jatinder Kamra and Sukhraj Singh had each received 200 hours’ unpaid work and restraining orders. The appeal court upheld the convictions and ordered a further £1,000 each.

Emery’s La face cachée du yoga

In France Élodie Emery’s book-enquête La face cachée du yoga (Buchet-Chastel) landed with multi-outlet coverage of sexual violence and emprise, psychological hold, in yoga teaching. Le Parisien, Libération, L’Indépendant and L’Obs reported the absence of a certification or control body for yoga teachers.

Emery told L’Indépendant the book draws on about forty victim testimonies naming nineteen teachers, with eleven accounts that could characterise rape and seven criminal complaints. Every teacher she names is still practising.

L’Indépendant followed Emery to Quillan, a small town in the Aude département of southern France, where Sébastien Boutillier has taught since early 2026 after earlier work elsewhere in the south. Former pupils have filed complaints of abuse of trust, violence, online harassment and sexual assault at gendarmeries in the Tarn, Aveyron and Var, three other southern départements, adding to a 2022 online-harassment main courante, a police incident report.

Complaints are not convictions. Boutillier denies the allegations and calls them a “fatwa” and set-up by malicious former students. He says he has lost most of his pupils and rejects any idea of emprise.

Emery told L’Obs that people often arrive in yoga at a moment of vulnerability and refuse to see what is wrong. She also told L’Indépendant that the gravest cases cluster in retreats and teacher trainings, where sleep and food deprivation and group pressure favour embrigadement.

Rotterdam embezzlement and Happy Happy money

In the Netherlands a Rotterdam court gave former bewindvoerder (court-appointed administrator) V. A. B. eighteen months, six suspended, and ordered repayment of €300,000 embezzled from client families and a children’s fund. About €200,000 had gone to a Croatian account linked to Slovenia’s Happy Happy movement, which Slovenian media call a sekte.

The defence said a Happy Happy lodger had pressured her. The judge found no proof of coercion and said the communications were “mostly loving”:

„Er was heel veel communicatie tussen beide, maar die was vooral liefdevol.”

AD.nl, citing the defence and Slovenian press, said Happy Happy sold energetic trainings and positive-energy sessions in which followers were told to repeat the words “happy happy.” Slovenian outlets name former table-tennis player Saša Ignjatović as the movement’s leading figure.

Activity centred in Slovenia, with funds routed through related accounts including in Croatia. After early exposures he relocated to the Dominican Republic while associates continued under related branding. Media coverage of the group’s money and “happy” repetition practices stretches back at least to the mid-2010s.

Ignjatović has denied in Slovenian court testimony that a cult or pyramid scheme exists.

Védrines family and the Monflanquin château

Ouest-France’s evening edition on 25 September returned to the Reclus de Monflanquin case. Between 2001 and 2009 eleven Védrines family members lived under Thierry Tilly’s control in their own château de Martel at Monflanquin in Lot-et-Garonne, a département in south-west France.

Tilly entered the Protestant notable family’s circle in Paris around 1999 via Ghislaine de Védrines. He then persuaded the clan they faced an invented freemason and fiscal plot.

From about 2003 the family shut the château’s shutters, cut the phone, and reported daily to Tilly while he orchestrated their isolation by mail and call. Younger members later moved under his orders to London and Oxford. Roughly €4.5 million in savings, jewels and assets disappeared.

Christine de Védrines escaped his hold in 2009 and filed a complaint.

Bordeaux courts convicted Tilly of fraud, extortion, abuse of weakness and related offences: eight years at first instance in 2012, raised to ten years on appeal in 2013, with accomplice Jacques Gonzalez given four years. Ouest-France notes the château was sold twice under the emprise and has not been restored to the family.

El País on private detectives

El País ICON on 22 September interviewed private detectives about twenty-first-century work: mostly suspected sick-leave fraud and infidelity, open-source social-media checks, and Spanish licensing under the 2014 private-security law. Gómez of Detectives Garena in Alcalá de Henares, a city east of Madrid, said he now refuses witchcraft and cult jobs after an undercover assignment nearly trapped him:

“No quiero ya más brujerías y sectas. Me metí en una y casi me enganchan, tuve que tener la mente muy fresca. Era para salvar a una chica, me lo habían pedido los padres. Entras y tienes que tomar y fumar cosas con las que, poco a poco, te llevan a su terreno.”

Kulbergs: “Neesam sekta”

Latvia’s public broadcaster LSM on 26 September ran a Kas notiek Latvijā? interview with prime minister and Apvienotais saraksts (United List) election candidate Andris Kulbergs under the headline “Neesam sekta” (“we are not a cult”). The interview also covered budget politics and his self-description as “karsts” (hot) in his rhetoric.

Kulbergs, a parliamentary newcomer first elected in the outgoing Saeima, Latvia’s parliament, has been prime minister since late May and is his alliance’s candidate for the 15th Saeima elections. He told Jānis Domburs the alliance is “centriski konservatīvi” (centrist-conservative), that the state cannot be run like a company, and that “premjerā nav sagājis” (he has not “turned into” the premier mould).

On the budget he complained that “sistēma pretojas” spending cuts and said public bodies do not want to leave money unspent:

« Valsts iestāde negrib neiztērēt. »

He also said:

« Es esmu karsts savos izteikumos, tā ir bijusi reizēm problēma. »

Crash near the old Crna Ruža site

Serbian news site Naslovi reported a traffic killing in Belgrade’s Karaburma district, a neighbourhood on the Danube side of Serbia’s capital, about fifty metres from the place Serbian media still tie to the 2002 death of seventeen-year-old Filip Tomović.

On 16 September Jovan T., 79, drove through a red light on Višnjička Street at a pedestrian crossing opposite a shopping centre and struck Lj. L., 44, who died at the scene. Belgrade’s Higher Court later placed the driver under house arrest with an electronic tag.

Serbian tabloids and Tomović’s mother, neuropsychiatrist Mirjana Tomović, have long attributed his death on the Danube quay at Karaburma to an alleged “Crna Ruža” (Black Rose) group. Contemporary reports described a gunshot wound and ritual-looking items at the scene. A classmate’s suicide days earlier fed the same scare.

Police investigated the deaths. No public finding confirmed an organised cult’s responsibility, and no court record has established “Crna Ruža” as an organisation with a documented doctrine, founding date or European network.

Beyond Europe

Kenya prepares burial of 443 unclaimed Shakahola remains

Kilifi County authorities said families have a 21-day window to claim remains before a mass burial of 443 unclaimed victims from the Shakahola fasting deaths tied to Good News International and Paul Mackenzie. Spanish news agency EFE, via La Prensa Gráfica, and Kenyan outlets including the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and Eastleigh Voice said the burial site would be near the Shakahola forest with identifiers preserved.

They also said Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) forensics had cleared the way toward burial by December 2026.

Exclusive Brethren ministries and Northern Territory booth claims

In Australia the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age reported that Bruce Hales, world leader of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC), also known as the Exclusive Brethren, described Jews as “wicked” and “infidel” in leaked church ministries spanning more than two decades. Hales is known to followers as the “Elect Vessel” and “Man of God.” The church publicly condemns antisemitism as “abhorrent”. Spokesman Lloyd Grimshaw said the remarks were theological and that the reporting misrepresented Hales’s position.

Seven Coalition MPs who had previously supported the church, including Liberal leader Angus Taylor, did not answer questions about the ministries after almost two days, the papers said. Nationals leader Matt Canavan said he did not agree with the views reported from Hales but would not hold people collectively responsible for one person’s views. Hales and his son Gareth have been called to give evidence next month to the parliamentary inquiry into the 2025 federal election.

Separately, ABC News reported former Northern Territory chief minister Eva Lawler telling that inquiry in Darwin that men she believed were Exclusive Brethren members behaved in an “intimidating” way at Greater Darwin polling booths while campaigning for the conservative side. She said she could not be “100 per cent” sure they were PBCC members. Former deputy Labor leader Lynne Walker said men she claimed were “part of the Brethren” flew from Queensland to campaign for the Country Liberal Party (CLP) at Galiwin’ku.

A PBCC spokesperson said the church played no role and that private citizens’ actions should not be treated as orchestrated by their faith. CLP president Nathan Land said he had no knowledge of the party requesting help from any religious group including the Exclusive Brethren.

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