Almost all religions condemn suicide. Why, then, does “ritual” suicide also exist?
Massimo Introvigne
Powdered Diplomacy: China, Drugs, and the Sinaloa Cartel
One of the largest anti-drug operations in U.S. history raises disturbing questions about Beijing’s complicity with international organized crime.
韓国における宗教の自由の危機４．中国および日本とのコネクション
なぜキリスト教の反カルト主義者は、日本の左翼弁護士や宗教を迫害する無神論政権と協力しているのか？
後藤徹vs鈴木エイト –判決により真実が失われる-
後藤氏vs鈴木氏 控訴審判決をめぐる中山達樹弁護士との対談
Toru Goto and Eight Suzuki: The Verdict and the Vanishing Truth
A conversation with Attorney Tatsuki Nakayama on the Goto vs. Suzuki scandalous appeal verdict.
韓国における宗教の自由の危機３．犯罪的反カルト主義：ディプログラミング
「カルト」のメンバーを拉致監禁し「棄教」させる行為は、韓国を除くすべての民主主義国で禁止されてきた。韓国では死亡した被害者もいる。
Around Giacomo Balla: Italian Futurists and Theosophy. 4. Balla’s Encounter with Theosophy
It is unclear when the artist first met the Theosophical Society. General Carlo Ballatore and politician Giovanni Amendola played essential roles.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 5. The Red Octopus’s Seventh Tentacle: Arresting Those Who Return to China
When it finally succeeds in bringing refugees back to Chinese territory, the CCP arrests, sentences, and tortures them.
Putin’s Global Casting Call: How Slave Soldiers Ended Up on the Russian Front
Recruited in their countries and told they will work in construction or domestic security, deceived immigrants from Africa and Asia are compelled to fight in the Ukrainian War.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 4. The Red Octopus’s Tentacles #4, 5, and 6: Abductions, Cyber-Attacks, and Anti-Cult Associations
Kidnapping refugees is an extreme step, but the CCP effectively harasses them through digital suppression and the mobilization of anti-cultists.
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.