A report highlights how asylum seekers from China and other countries have been repeatedly kidnapped or arrested and sent back to their persecutors.
Massimo Introvigne
Brazil: Pop Singer Anitta Becomes Target of Intolerance After Candomblé Video
What is in fact a pro-religious-liberty song triggered hate reactions by enemies of Brazilian African religions.
PierLuigi Zoccatelli (1965–2024): In Memoriam
The Italian scholar “was” CESNUR. He was also a brilliant academic and an exceptional and compassionate human being.
When the “I Ching” Goes to the Movies: Federico Fellini and the Chinese Book of Changes—Part II
Having learned from psychoanalyst Ernst Bernhard about the text, Fellini used it for divination in a very personal way.
Chinese Propaganda in Pakistan: “Xinjiang Is Having Its Best Time in History”
A seminar in Islamabad presented the region, where a genocide of Muslim Uyghurs is taking place, as a land where freedom of religion reigns.
When the “I Ching” Goes to the Movies: Federico Fellini and the Chinese Book of Changes—Part I
From 1961 until his death in 1993, for the great filmmaker the ancient text from China was a constant companion and source of inspiration.
France: Should Muslim Soccer Players Who Refused to Wear an Anti-Homophobia Badge Be Sanctioned?
As it happened in 2022 and 2023, those who invoked “respect for their beliefs” are stigmatized and threatened. But the case is less simple than it may seem.
USCIRF Condemns Religious Freedom Violations in Eritrea
While some of those incarcerated because of their faith were released in 2023, many others remain in jail.
Tai Ji Men Requests National Compensation for the Ill-Founded 1992 Tax Bill
The National Taxation Bureau knew that the bill was fabricated and illegal, yet it maintained and enforced it, Tai Ji Men argues.
Oak Flat Apache Sacred Site Case Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court
The full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rehear the case. Only the Washington Justices can now save the site from destruction.
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.