新宗教運動が暴力の犠牲者となるとき、即座に彼らの敵対者によって「それは自業自得だ」というキャンペーンが始められる。
Massimo Introvigne
The Family Survival Trust 2022 Report on “Cults”: Reviving the Dead Horse of “Brainwashing”
The British affiliate of FECRIS calls for extending legislation on “coercive control” to new religious movements. In fact, it tries to resurrect the discredited theory of brainwashing.
Calling A Stag a Horse: Fake News on the Abe Assassination
When new religious movements are victims of violence, “it is their fault” campaigns are immediately started by their opponents.
Jehovah’s Getuigen en seksueel misbruik: de rechtbank van Brussel verklaard het IACSSO-rapport ongegrond
De rechter verklaarde dat het gepubliceerde verslag van de ‘sekte-waakhond’ van de overheid, methodologisch onjuist was en valse verklaringen bevat.
Nicaragua: Catholic Bishop “Kidnapped,” USCIRF Denounces Widespread “Persecution”
The crackdown particularly continues to target the Catholic Church, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says in a comprehensive report.
Pakistan: Punjab’s Ruling Party Wants to Ban Ahmadis from a Whole District
Rather than protecting them against mob violence, the Vice President of Punjab’s Pakistan Muslim League-Q wants to expel them from Khushab District.
The “Origins of Chinese Civilization” Project: Xi Jinping Explains Why It Matters
Sixteen years of efforts by the CCP were aimed at building a “Marxist” theory of China’s history—proving inter alia that the Uyghurs are in fact Chinese.
Pakistan, USCIRF: “Religious Liberty from Bad to Worse”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom denounces the “dire condition” of religious minorities.
Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the groups was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints.
Shincheonji: Korean Supreme Court Confirms Leader’s Acquittal from COVID Charges
It is now definitively confirmed that the movement and its leader Chairman Lee did not breach any COVID regulation.
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.