Mentre in Italia il Concordato con la Chiesa cattolica crea una situazione particolare, altri Paesi hanno circoscritto la tutela giuridica del segreto confessionale.
Massimo Introvigne
Zijn afvalligen betrouwbaar? 1. Het probleem van afvalligheid
Afvalligen zijn ex-leden van religies of religieuze bewegingen die gezworen vijanden worden van het geloof dat zij hebben verlaten. Ze komen al eeuwen voor.
Nicaragua: Vatican Protests “Incomprehensible” Expulsion of Papal Nuncio
The rare move came after the diplomat had been slandered and even beaten, and is a sign Ortega’s regime is no longer interested in pretending there is religious liberty in the country.
Заслуживают ли отступники доверия? 5. Почему некоторые становятся отступниками
Бывшие члены религиозных организаций, ставшие отступниками, часто «учатся» этой роли у антикультовых движений.
Pakistan: Deadly Anti-Shiite Terrorist Attacks Continue
63 killed, 200 wounded in an attack against a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
La lotta per la confessione. 1. La discussione in Australia
Un libro molto importante affronta criticamente le proposte di abolire le leggi che proteggono il segreto della confessione.
China, Russia: “Virus Came from Ukraine”, New Study: “No, from a Lab in Wuhan”
The CCP uses Russian stories of Americans creating viruses in Ukraine to answer new authoritative claims that the COVID-19 virus was created in a Chinese lab.
Заслуживают ли отступники доверия? 4. Не все бывшие приверженцы религии отступники
К сожалению, СМИ часто путают две совершенно разные категории: бывших членов религиозных организаций и отступников. Большинство бывших членов не отступники.
Ukraine: Why the Moscow Patriarch Supports Putin’s War
Kirill’s “terrible sermon” of March 6, where he justified the invasion as preventing “Gay Prides,” comes from a dangerous apocalyptic theology.
The Struggle for Confession. 5. The Future of the Confessional Privilege
Will the legal protection of the content of confession and similar practices against its mandatory disclosure, even when a crime is involved, survive the present assault?
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.