Ukrainian Orthodox Church priests face a painful dilemma: cooperate with the Russians, go to jail, or flee.
Willy Fautré
Occupied Eastern Ukraine: How Russians Stole 800 Churches. Part 2
How did the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) react to the progressive stranglehold from 2022 to 2024?
Occupied Eastern Ukraine: How Russians Stole 800 Churches. Part 1
How did the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church/ Moscow Patriarchate interact from 2014 to 2022?
Cameroon Announces the Closure of 1,400 Revivalist Churches
A Pentecostal woman killed her daughter. A minister used the tragedy as a pretext to crack down on local Pentecostals.
The Rudnev Series: 8. The Anti-Cult Movement, Alexander Dvorkin, and Konstantin Rudnev
How Russian anti-cult activism, led by Alexander Dvorkin and supported by the Orthodox Church, shaped a long and successful slander campaign.
From Presumption of Guilt to Innocence—but not in the Media: The Case of Tai Ji Men
The courtroom may clear the innocent, but the media’s tribunal often condemns them forever.
Fake News, Spiritual Minorities, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Unscrupulous journalists publish fake news about “cults.” Then they refuse to correct themselves.
A Wall of Shame: Why a Memorial for and by Tai Ji Men Is Needed
A reflection on the right to truth for the victims of egregious human rights violations and the ongoing human rights violations in the Tai Ji Men case.
Lessons from Taiwan’s 228 Incident on Social Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
The World Day of Social Justice is connected for Taiwanese with Peace Memorial Day on February 28. Both call for a solution to the Tai Ji Men case.
Discriminatory Taxation of Religious Movements as a Form of Persecution
The persecution of Tai Ji Men warrants at least an apology from Taiwan’s current government for past injustices that have so far been impossible to redress.
Willy Fautré
Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in 1988. His organization defends human rights in general but also the rights of persons belonging to historical religions, non-traditional and new religious movements. It is apolitical and independent from any religion.
He has carried out fact-finding missions on human rights and religious freedom in more than 25 countries He is a lecturer in universities in the field of religious freedom and human rights. He has published many articles in university journals about relations between state and religions. He organizes conferences at the European Parliament, including on freedom of religion or belief in China. For years, he has developed religious freedom advocacy in European institutions, at the OSCE and at the UN.