A dead woman tried to prevent her greedy daughter from claiming back donations she had freely made. The Supreme Court has now sided with the daughter.
Massimo Introvigne
France : Comment les « victimes » des « sectes » sont fabriquées
Une femme accusée d’être une « prédatrice sexuelle sectaire » a été maintenue en prison jusqu’à ce qu’elle accepte de se déclarer « victime » de la « gourelle » et devienne conférencière anti-sectes.
Morality, Religious Liberty, and the Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at Reitaku University, Japan
A session at the annual conference of the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion explored how democratic regimes do not always guarantee freedom of religion or belief.
Joseph Cornell, Christian Science, and the Invention of Contemporary Art
All of Cornell’s work was but “a variation on the single theme of Christian Science metaphysics,” a statement not by an art historian but by the artist himself.
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Members Persecuted in Egypt
A long history of repression has forced believers to flee the country. Some are now seeking asylum in Hong Kong.
Pakistan Government Both Denies and Admits Religious Liberty Crisis in the Country
The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the U.S. claim that there is no freedom of religion there. The Minister of Defense acknowledged religious minorities “are not safe.”
France: How “Victims” of “Cults” Are Fabricated
A woman accused of being a “cultist sexual predator” was kept in jail until she accepted to declare herself a “victim” of the “guru” and became an anti-cult lecturer.
Remember the Churches Burned in Pakistan? Now a Death Sentence Hit—a Christian
Ehsaan Masih was accused of posting on TikTok material on the Jaranwala riots referencing the fabricated blasphemous content that ignited them.
「もしもあなたがカルトであれば、負ける」：日本の裁判所における暗黙のルールは、単に“カルト”と“関連”のある団体にさえ適用される。
世界平和女性連合会に対する7月1日の判決は、日本の裁判所の判断が法律ではなく政治に関するものであることを裏付けるものである。
“If You Are a Cult, You Lose”: Japanese Courts’ Unwritten Rule Even Applies to Parties Merely “Connected” with a “Cult”
The judgement of July 1 against the Women Federation for World Peace simply confirms that court decisions in Japan are about politics, not law.
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.