BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

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.

Gustaf Fjaestad: Theosophy and the Winter Light of the Invisible 

A Swedish master whose snow-covered landscapes were shaped as much by Theosophy and spiritual inquiry as by nature itself.

Christian Gospel Mission and the Moment Stigma Turned Physical: The Case Reaches the United Nations

A followup submission to the Human Rights Council details how sustained hostility toward CGM members culminated in a violent assault only days after CAPLC’s warning.

Japan: Bias Ignored as Unification Church’s Recusal Motion Is Rejected

A judge who attended an antiUnification-Church seminar and echoed its claims remains on the panel, raising grave concerns about judicial credibility.

When “Autonomy” Means Obedience: China’s New “Social Sciences With Chinese Characteristics”

A CCP manifesto reveals how scholarship is being redesigned as an instrument of ideological discipline.

The Revelation Spiritual Home: A Sociologist Reads the Book by Introvigne and Šorytė

To enter into the world of The Revelation Spiritual Home, we must adopt a non-Eurocentric epistemological paradigm and accept that we will encounter the unfamiliar.

China, Christian Prisoners of Conscience Denied Access to the Bible

The case of the imprisoned leaders of Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church shows that inmates’ right to receive non-illegal reading material does not extend to the Sacred Scripture.

The Rudnev Case at the United Nations Human Rights Council—Again

CAP-LC and United for Human Rights seek justice for the political and spiritual Russian dissident prosecuted in Argentina with dubious accusations.

Widespread Killings and Abductions of Nigeria’s Christians: Proof of a Genocide

Why do some politicians and media refuse to recognize what many Nigerian Christians and their supporters regard as an obvious genocide?

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