The report is better than others, and acknowledges improvements in the Witnesses’ child-protection policies, but is often misinterpreted by the media.
Massimo Introvigne
La FECRIS admet : L’affaire perdue à Hambourg contre les Témoins de Jéhovah était « une leçon ».
Alors que dans un communiqué de presse public, l’affaire perdue était présentée comme une victoire, l’organisation a reconnu, lors de son assemblée générale, que les choses s’étaient passées différemment.
Rastafarians: South Africa “Private Marijuana” Bill Fails to Cover Religious Use
They are joined by other groups protesting because, while liberalizing at-home consumption, the new law would keep criminalizing use in sacred ceremonies.
Les Témoins de Jéhovah : Comment le concept de liberté a été bafoué par la décision du tribunal de Gand
Affirmer que la mise à l’écart sociale d’un apostat est un délit, revient à accepter l’idéologie selon laquelle renoncer à sa liberté en faveur d’une organisation est forcément suspect.
FECRIS Admits: Hamburg Case Lost Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Was “A Lesson”
While in a public press release the lost case was presented as a victory, in its General Assembly the organization acknowledged things went differently.
Twenty Years After: Islam, Terrorism, and 9/11
The tragedy of September 11, 2001, changed forever how we reflect on “Islamic fundamentalism.” Twenty years after, a picture of the situation.
Brainwashing, Italian-Style: Some Want the “Plagio” Back
Some things return every year, such as the swallows, the primroses, and proposals by anti-cultists to re-introduce anti-brainwashing statutes in Italy.
Li Guangman: How an Obscure Electric School Teacher Scared Millions of Chinese
The main CCP media reprinted a blog article claiming that Xi Jinping is preparing a second Cultural Revolution—this time against the rich.
Brainwashing, Italian-Style: “It Does Not Exist,” Said the Constitutional Court
In 1981, the Constitutional Court ruled in the case of a Catholic priest accused of manipulating his followers, and concluded “plagio” was an imaginary crime.
Brainwashing, Italian-Style: The Braibanti Case
When judges in 1968 found a Communist gay philosopher guilty of “brainwashing” its pupils into homosexuality, a national controversy erupted.
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.