For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.
Massimo Introvigne
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.
France, the Strange Relationship Between the Anti-Cult Mission MIVILUDES and the Spirits
Georges Fenech, the strongman of the governmental agency, lives with a Spiritualist medium. We are told his deceased former lover promoted their union from the spirit world.
L’omicidio di Sharon Verzeni. I media si scuseranno con Scientology?
La giovane donna assassinata frequentava Scientology. Prima che si scoprisse che il crimine non aveva nulla a che fare con Scientology, alcuni media e attivisti anti-sette hanno usato la tragedia per attaccare la Chiesa.
Italy, The Homicide of Sharon Verzeni: Will the Media Apologize to Scientology?
A young woman who took Scientology courses was assassinated. Before it came out that the crime had nothing to do with Scientology, some media and anti-cultists used the tragedy to attack the church.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 5. Act Four: The Restoration of Hope
Although deconstructed by ideologies, hope is not lost. It is a perennial possibility, even in the midst of the most horrible persecutions.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 4. Act Three: The Attack Against Hope
By divorcing Biblical faith from Greek reason, Luther, Kant, and Marx destroyed the roots of the Christian concept of hope.
日本におけるエホバの証人に対するヘイトクライム：被害者の証言
安倍晋三元首相銃撃事件の後に始まった反カルトキャンペーンは，ヘイトスピーチだけでなく身体的暴力も引き起こした。2人の女性が体験を語る。
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.