Two very different spiritual movements were targeted, at different times, by similar forms of repression.
Massimo Introvigne
Lifechanyuan: Facing a New Wave of Repression in China
Fresh detentions and sentences show that China’s campaign against this spiritual movement continues
日本の最高裁、統一教会の解散を確定
迅速かつ簡潔な判断によって訴訟は終結したが、その判決は司法の中立性、適正手続き、そして日本における信教の自由の将来について深刻な疑問を残した。
A 95-Year-Old Religious Leader in Custody: South Korea Crosses a Line
An elderly man who devoted his life to faith is now treated as a public menace.
Japan’s Supreme Court Confirms the Dissolution of the Unification Church
A rapid and thinly reasoned verdict closes the case but leaves profound concerns about neutrality, due process, and the future of religious freedom in Japan.
Un llamado a la conciencia y a la intervención ciudadana en el caso Rudnev
Las crecientes preocupaciones humanitarias y la inquietante conducta fiscal exigen una acción urgente mediante un mecanismo oficial que las autoridades ya están revisando
How a Narrative Was Built: Fact-Checker Kato Reads the Unification Church Case in Japan
A leading journalist documented, with statistical data, how activists and media fabricated a climate leading to the dissolution of the religious organization.
A Call to Conscience and Citizen Intervention in the Rudnev Case
Growing humanitarian concerns and troubling prosecutorial conduct demand urgent action through an official mechanism that authorities are already reviewing
Konstantin Rudnev y Facundo Jones Huala: La sombra de un fiscal sobre dos vidas
Dos presos, dos comunidades en angustia y una voluntad fiscal que se niega a ceder
Konstantin Rudnev and Facundo Jones Huala: A Prosecutor’s Shadow Over Two Lives
Two prisoners, two communities in anguish, and one prosecutorial will that refuses to bend
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.