In Baghbanpura, in the urban area of Gujranwala, Punjab, the Ahmadis covered decorative minarets with an iron sheet to make them invisible. It was not enough.
Massimo Introvigne
Scientology, weltliche Gerichte und Trennungs-/Fair-Game-Richtlinie. Unterdrückerische Personen und Fair Game (Freiwild)
Eine unterdrückerische Person ist ein Nicht-Scientologe, der versucht, Scientology zu zerstören. Die kurzlebige Fair-Game-Richtlinie bedeutete, dass Maßnahmen gegen die unterdrückerische Person von den innerkirchlichen Gerichten der Scientology nicht geahndet wurden.
Russian Orthodox Church: “Spreading Destructive Ideologies” Should Become a Crime in Russia
The crime should cover cases, including of religious movements, where all efforts to declare a group “extremist” fail.
Scientology, weltliche Gerichte und Trennungs-/Freiwildrichtlinien 1. Schützt die Ethik der Scientology Straftäter vor der weltlichen Justiz?
Die Antwort lautet schlicht und einfach: Nein. Stattdessen bringen Kritiker die internen kirchlichen Gerichte mit den Beziehungen der Scientology zu weltlichen Gerichten durcheinander.
California and Confession. 4. Confessing to More than One Minister
Protecting the secret of the confession only when the penitent confesses to one minister creates an unjustified privilege for some religions.
California and Confession. 3. With Relatives Present, It’s Still a Confession
In other American states, courts have concluded that the presence of wives, children, or parents of the penitent does not make the confessional privilege inapplicable.
California and Confession. 2. A Landmark Case, Reutkemeier v. Nolte
In 1917, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a confession can be rendered to a committee of four and still be protected by the confessional privilege.
La campagne contre l’Église de l’Unification au Japon : L’ombre du parti communiste
Un reportage explosif affirme que les communistes japonais ont joué un rôle-clé en alimentant l’hostilité contre le groupe religieux anticommuniste.
Butchers of Tibetan Buddhists and of Falun Gong Practitioners Sanctioned by the U.S.
Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet, and Tang Yong, prison bureaucrat in Chongqing, are among those sanctioned.
The Universality of Human Rights and the Tai Ji Men Case
Those who claim that human right are not universal usually are those who do not respect them.
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.