Officially known as the People's Temple, this community of American religious zealots who lived and died in the small South American country of Guyana during the 1970s has become synonymous with fanatical cultism and mass suicide. The group had...

JONESTOWN AND PEOPLES TEMPLE was a communal religious settlement in the jungles of Guyana founded and led by the Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones (1931–1978). Nearly 1,000 people had come to the South American country in the...

Jonestown was the short-lived settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California. Jonestown became lastingly and internationally notorious in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-suicide...

Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century. Rep. Leo Ryan and several members of the group accompanying him on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, in the South American...

The annual Silverdocs documentary film festival, which begins Tuesday, asks and explores unusual questions: How does a young woman turn into an armed revolutionary? ("Guerrilla Girl" on Wednesday and Thursday.) What is life like for an African Nazi in post-apartheid South Africa? ("His Big...

A man accused of killing six people in a cross-country rampage in August could face the death penalty after his indictment in two of the killings.Paul Devoe, 44, was indicted Monday on a capital murder charge in the deaths of two teenage girls who were...

Gunmen stormed into a coastal village Saturday and killed 11 people, including five children, in violence blamed on a gang leader who has threatened widespread attacks. The assault sparked angry protests over rising crime in this impoverished country.The killings in Lusignan came hours after gunmen...