BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 4. School Surveillance and Coercive Counseling

New schoolbased procedures instruct educators to identify and monitor children from Unification Church families, raising concerns about privacy violations.

The Saga of AROPL: When Headlines Become Weapons

How media fueled the racist riots: coordinated narratives turned a police operation into a public threat.

From Buddha to Racetrack: A Sacred Site in Drakgo Is Rewritten by Force

A revered statue’s grounds become a horseracing field. Cultural erasure in historical Tibet now proceeds through construction as much as demolition and removal.

The Saga of AROPL: Racism, Riots, and Violence

Sensationalist media, fake news, and propaganda fueled a rapid mobilization of violent protests.

Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 3. The Government’s “Re-Education” Plan

New state policies introduce schoolbased programs designed to reshape the thinking of minors from Unification Church families.

When the Dao Must March in Formation: The New Management System for Taoist Clergy

The model tightens ideological discipline and expands monitoring, while temples quietly resist pressure to preach political doctrine rather than classical cultivation.

Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children

Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children

China’s Patriotic Catholic Church Promotes the Ethnic Unity Law

The official Catholic body promotes with zeal a law internationally condemned while ignoring the Papal encyclical that the rest of the Catholic world is discussing.

The Hague City Council Bans Pro-Chinese Lantern Festival

Following the aggression against the Lonely Uyghur, the “City of Peace and Justice” severed Beijing’s propaganda arm.

Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge — 1. Anti Heresy Campaigns

How lawyers and religious competitors have pushed Japan toward measures that target believers even after the organization’s dissolution.

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