Matt HodgkinsonJul 26, 2025

When I was a kid, the Jesus Army was a kooky group who wore colourful jackets and drove around in colourful buses. They were also a strict hierarchical community who separated children from their parents and engaged in mass child abuse, only shutting down in 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/24/jesus-army-fellowship-cult-noel-stanton

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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

The long read: Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated

The Guardian
MediaFaro LongreadsJul 24, 2025

The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight.

Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship.

As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250724-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-british-cult-that-hid-in-plain-sight?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight.

Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated

The Guardian
Glyn MoodyJul 24, 2025
The rise and fall of the British #cult that hid in plain sight - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/24/jesus-army-fellowship-cult-noel-stanton "Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the #JesusFellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated" the weak abused by the bad
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

The long read: Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated

The Guardian