The statute would have put a halt to the practice of kidnapping, converting to Islam, and marrying to Muslim men young Hindu and Christian girls.
Massimo Introvigne
Democracy According to Xi Jinping
In an important speech, the Chinese President explains that China is democratic—if you just change the meaning of the word “democracy.”
Bangladesh: Hindus Attacked At Durga Puja, 5 Dead
A Hare Krishna temple in Choumuhoni was among the places of worship vandalized after a false blasphemy charge. Two devotees were murdered.
The Blood Libel Anti-Semitic Myth. 9. The Fixer
Immortalized in Malamud’s novel, the 1913 Beilis trial in Kiev was the last internationally famous case where a Jew was accused of ritual murder.
Het onafhankelijke onderzoek van Engeland en Wales naar seksueel kindermisbruik: Jehovah’s Getuigen en de zogeheten twee-getuigenregel
De regel dat twee getuigen nodig zijn geldt alleen binnen het religieus bestuur, en heeft niets te maken met de manier waarop de organisatie communiceert met seculiere autoriteiten.
Het onafhankelijke onderzoek in Engeland en Wales naar seksueel kindermisbruik en Jehovah’s Getuigen
Het rapport is beter dan andere, het erkent de verbeteringen in het beleid van de Jehovah’s Getuigen met betrekking tot de bescherming van kinderen, maar wordt vaak verkeerd uitgelegd door de media.
The Blood Libel Anti-Semitic Myth. 8. The Strange Case of a Girl in Bohemia
Leopold Hilsner was one of the last Jews sentenced in a case of blood libel. His case divided the Imperial bureaucracy and the Catholic Church.
Die unabhängige Aufarbeitungskommission von England und Wales für sexuellen Kindesmiss-brauch: Jehovas Zeugen und die sogenannte Zwei-Zeugen-Regel
Die Regel, dass zwei Zeugen erforderlich sind, bezieht sich nur auf die innerkirchlichen Verfahren und hat nichts mit der Zusammenarbeit der Organisation mit staatlichen Behörden zu tun.
Die unabhängige Aufarbeitungskommission von England und Wales über sexuellen Kindesmiss-brauch und Jehovas Zeugen
Der Bericht ist besser als andere und erkennt Verbesserungen in der Kinderschutzrichtlinie von Jehovas Zeugen an, wird aber von den Medien oft falsch interpretiert.
The Blood Libel Anti-Semitic Myth. 7. The Tisza-Eszlár Incident, 1882
The mysterious death of a girl in Hungary is attributed to a Jewish ritual murder by right-wing extremists to this very 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.