While there are other critical situations, including in France, what is happening in Japan is unprecedented in a democratic country in our century.
Massimo Introvigne
“Fatti nuovi” nella persecuzione religiosa in Cina: il dopo-COVID e le conseguenze della Conferenza nazionale sulla religione del dicembre 2021
Una risposta del direttore di “Bitter Winter” a quesiti posti da avvocati italiani su come è cambiata la situazione della religione in Cina tra il 2020 e il 2024.
Pakistan: Discrimination Against Ahmadis Extends to Hospitals
The Pakistan Medical Association displayed anti-Ahmadi banners in front of the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad and called for discrimination of the Ahmadi patients.
Malgré le rejet au Sénat, la France adopte une nouvelle loi anti-sectes
La loi crée un nouveau délit de « sujétion psychologique », restreint la possibilité de critiquer les traitements médicaux « officiels » et met gravement en danger la liberté de religion ou de croyance.
South Korea: Adventist Student Allowed to Refuse University Admission Interview on Saturday
Reversing an earlier jurisprudence, both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court ruled that schedules should be adjusted to respect religious liberty.
Against Senate’s Opposition, France Passes New Anti-Cult Law
The law creates a new crime of “psychological subjection,” restricts the possibility of criticizing mainline medical treatments, and seriously endangers freedom of religion or belief.
Why the Catholic Church Denounced Bolivia to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
A law passed in 2010 closed private institutions that delivered degrees in education, including the Normal Superior Catholic Institute Sedes Sapientiae
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. 5. Why Are They Persecuted?
The peaceful followers of the AROPL have been harassed, discriminated, and beaten in Muslim countries but also in Thailand and Sweden. Why?
China’s “Names War” Attacks India’s Arunachal Pradesh
China has “Sinicized” thirty geographical names of places in an Indian state it claims as its own.
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. 4. The Divine Just State
AROPL believers expect a millennial kingdom of peace and justice, ruled by a wise philosopher-king.
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.