Using as a pretext the “fasting sect” incident in Kenya, with French and Japanese influences, several African countries are cracking down on religious minorities. Now, it’s Uganda.
Massimo Introvigne
日本の有力誌がセネガルにある統一教会関連学校に対する陰謀を暴露
影響力のある『週刊新潮』は、共産党をなだめようとする「粗雑で稚拙な」試みの政治的理由を明らかにした。
Japan, Leading Magazine Exposes the Conspiracy Against a School with Unification Church Connections in Senegal
The influential “Weekly Shincho” revealed the political reasons of what it called a “crude and childish” attempt to appease the Communist Party.
Finally, the World Health Organization Admits Chinese Laboratory Origin of COVID “Cannot Be Ruled Out”
None other than WHO Secretary General Tedros, widely criticized during the pandemic for protecting China, now admits the hypothesis cannot be excluded.
Świadkowie Jehowy — najbardziej prześladowana religia na świecie
Raport Amerykańskiej Komisji do spraw Międzynarodowej Wolności Religijnej opisuje prześladowania Świadków Jehowy jako fenomen w skali światowej
Guru Jára: The End of a Legal Saga
Czech judges finally ruled, defeating a stubborn prosecutor, that Jára and his co-worker Barbora Plášková should be freed from jail.
The Unjust Taichung Decision Against Tai Ji Men Is Denounced at the UN Human Rights Council
For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.
Theosophy and Modern Art: The Tragedy of Florence Fuller
The strong experiences of the Australian artist with the Theosophical Masters and her involvement in the Leadbeater case led her to spend twenty years in a psychiatric hospital.
Ahmadis in Pakistan: Lawyer Threatened with Disbarment, Four Jailed with False Blasphemy Charges
An attorney has been told he would not be allowed to enter courts if he does not renounce his faith. Four are accused as usual of having burned pages of the Quran.
Pakistan, Anti-Rape Activist Asma Batool in Jail for Blasphemy Charges
The popular YouTuber was arrested for reading an anti-rape poem that allegedly includes a verse offensive to religion.
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.