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.
Massimo Introvigne
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.
The Blood Libel Anti-Semitic Myth. 6. The Case of Damascus, 1840
In the 19th century, Catholics became more inclined to believe in the blood libel myth. Politics, however, saved the accused Syrian Jews.
Inchiesta “England-Wales Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse”: i Testimoni di Geova e la cosiddetta regola dei due testimoni
La regola sulla necessità di avere due testimoni si riferisce soltanto alla gestione ecclesiastica, e non ha nulla a che fare con i rapporti dell’organizzazione con le autorità secolari.
L’Inchiesta indipendente sugli abusi sessuali sui minori di Inghilterra e Galles e i Testimoni di Geova
Questo rapporto è migliore rispetto ad altri, e riconosce i miglioramenti attuati nelle policy dei Testimoni sulla protezione dei minori, ma viene spesso male interpretato dai media.
Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia Escalates to Torture
In Irkutsk, Siberia, Jehovah’s Witnesses believers were badly beaten and threatened with rape by OMON special forces agents.
Независимая комиссия Англии и Уэльса по проблеме сексуального насилия над детьми: Свидетели Иеговы и так называемое правило двух свидетелей
Правило о том, что для церковного разбирательства нужны два свидетеля, никак не связано со взаимодействием организации и светских властей.
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.