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Massimo Introvigne
The Italian Job: How the CCP Laundered Mafia Money in Italy
A massive Italian Tax Police investigation unveiled a 15-billion-euro money laundering operation involving Italian mafia, Colombian drug barons, and Putin’s oligarchs.
Loup Blanc. 1. The Making of a (Jailed) Shaman
French media have published dozens of articles on Cyrille Adam (Loup Blanc) after he was accused of sexual abuse and arrested in 2021. Who is he?
Loup Blanc. 1. Le parcours d’un chaman (emprisonné)
Les médias français ont publié des dizaines d’articles sur Cyrille Adam (Loup Blanc) après qu’il ait été accusé d’abus sexuels et arrêté en 2021. Qui est-il ?
A Tale of Two COVIDs: Zero Discrimination, Religious Liberty, and Tai Ji Men
Other groups have been more successful than religious liberty advocates in fighting discrimination. This should change.
Pakistan: The Keynote Speaker at a Seminar on Kidnapping Is—A Kidnapper
The Islamabad Bar Association organized a seminar on kidnapping and forced conversion of non-Muslim girls to Islam. They invited kidnapper Mian Mithoo to lecture.
The Great Bengal Famine of 1770: When Taxes Created a Genocide
The sudden rise of land revenue taxes, together with drought, caused what some now call a genocide, which killed from one to ten million Bengalis and Biharis.
« Maltraitance religieuse des enfants ». Une autre attaque contre la liberté religieuse au Japon. 2. « Maltraitance psychologique »
De nombreuses pratiques qualifiées de « maltraitance psychologique à caractère religieux » par les directives du ministère de la Santé, du Travail et des Affaires sociales ne sont que des expressions normales de la liberté religieuse.
« Maltraitance religieuse des enfants ». Une autre attaque contre la liberté religieuse au Japon. 1. Une nouvelle notion de « maltraitance ».
Les directives du ministère de la Santé, du Travail et des Affaires sociales limitent considérablement le droit des parents de transmettre leur foi religieuse à leurs enfants.
“Religious Abuse of Children”: Another Assault Against Religious Liberty in Japan. 2. “Psychological abuse”
Many practices qualified as “religious psychological abuse” by the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are just normal expressions of freedom of religion.
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.