The European Court found that the Vilnius government failed to offer to objectors a clear alternative to military service.
Massimo Introvigne
“Integral Ecology” and the Tai Ji Men Case
“Environment,” as Pope Francis explained in “Laudato Si’,” also includes social institutions, whose technocratic corruption may damage the whole “ecosystem.”
Jehovah’s Getuigen in Noorwegen: Het Hooggerechtshof zet een fout recht
Een vreemde uitspraak van een gerechtshof is nietig verklaard. Daarin werd bevolen dat een uitgesloten lid van de Jehovah’s Getuigen hersteld moest worden.
Jehovas vitner i Norge: Høyesterett retter opp en feil
En merkelig avgjørelse fra lagmannsretten som beordret at et ekskludert medlem av Jehovas vitner skulle bli gjenopptatt, er blitt opphevet.
Ahmadis Once Again Under Attack in Pakistan
A terrorist group publishes images of what looks like a forced conversion, while Ahmadis mosques and graves are desecrated in Punjab.
China, The Worst Offender: The 2022 U.S. Department of State Report on Religious Freedom
The analysis of the year 2021 confirms that things in China went from bad to worse (with Bitter Winter as the most quoted media source).
Russia’s Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Unlawful, the European Court of Human Rights Says
In a historic decision of June 7, the judges denounced the Russian concept of “extremism” as a tool used to violate religious liberty.
Exorcizing the Atomic Bomb Through the Arts. 2. Italy’s Nuclear Art Movement
Milan’s “Movimento Arte Nucleare” and Livorno’s Eaismo believed that a new “nuclear art” was a needed response to the fear of the bomb.
In Search of China’s Secret Societies. 6. The Once and Future Secret Society
The religious and ritual features of groups such as the Tiandihui did not resist the competition of Christianity, Communism, and the new religions. In the end, only the criminal element remained.
In Search of China’s Secret Societies. 5. Secular Brotherhoods or Religious “Cults”?
Confusion and ambiguity in the use of “fandong huidaomen” (reactionary secret societies) and “xie jiao” (heterodox teachings) has persisted to this day.
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.