Not even one of the women “liberated” by the French police in 2023 admitted she was a “victim.” The Apple TV series ignored them.
Massimo Introvigne
Twisted TV: How a Documentary Bent the Facts Out of Shape. 3. The “Victims”
“Apostate” ex-members have a right to express their distress, and their stories should be carefully considered. But are they always believable?
China’s New Retirement Plan for Dissidents: Work, Prison, Repay, Repeat
New research shows how authorities have found a new way to punish prisoners of conscience by taking away their earned pensions.
Twisted TV: How a Documentary Bent the Facts Out of Shape. 2. Enter Hugues Gascan
The strange but important role of a shadowy figure in instigating the prosecution of Bivolaru and MISA in France.
Twisted TV: How a Documentary Bent the Facts Out of Shape. 1. MISA in Romania
An Apple TV series against Gregorian Bivolaru and his movement even rehabilitates the notorious Securitate police of Ceaușescu.
France : l’association anti-sectes UNADFI perd de nouveau en justice
La Cour d’appel d’Aix-en-Provence a déclaré que son refus de publier un droit de réponse de « Non à la Drogue, Oui à la Vie » était illégal.
The OLIRE Annual Report on Religious Liberty in Latin America: A Useful Document, but Something is Missing
The comprehensive assessment of how freedom of religion is threatened in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and by organized crime, omits the stigmatization of “cults” in democratic countries.
The Fear of the Jesuits in 17th-century Poland and Lithuania: The First “Cult” Panic
An exploration of anti-Jesuit polemics reveals a much older genealogy behind today’s campaigns against groups branded as outsiders, manipulators, or “cults.”
統一教会に対する決定：日本における新たな殉教者一宗教団体を抹殺しようとする、きわめて誤った裁判決定。
極めて不当な裁判所の判決が、ある宗教団体を抹殺しようとしている。
France, Anti-Cult Association UNADFI Loses Again in Court
The Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence stated that its refusal to publish a right of reply from “Non à la Drogue, Oui à la Vie” was unlawful.
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.