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Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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An image of the Federation Council. Credits.

06/15/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Legal Concept of “Extremist Material” Expanded in Russia

Courts will be allowed to consider “extremist” even documents or information not explicitly listed as such—and anything connected with “Fascism.”

Nikolai Patrushev (credits) and a diagram of the Yellowstone Caldera (credits).

05/31/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Russia: Lunatic Theory that Yellowstone Volcano Caused the War in Ukraine Gains Momentum

Security Council head Patrushev’s claim that Americans will need to resettle in Ukraine and Russia after the volcano erupts is both officially promoted—and ridiculed.

Willy Fautré, Manel Msalmi, and human rights activist Andy Vermaut at the Brussels event.

05/18/2023 Hans Noot

Human Rights Watchdogs Urge EU to Review Its Relations with Pakistan

A conference in Brussels called the attention on the intolerable situation of human rights and freedom of religion or belief in the Asian country.

USCIRF chair Nury Turkel and the 2023 report on religious liberty. From Twitter.

05/11/2023 Marco Respinti

Religious Liberty in the World in 2023: Worse Than Ever

USCIRF 2023 Annual Report shows serious regression in several countries and a few new entries. In China and Russia, minorities continue to be persecuted.

Members of Cómo vivir por fe in Argentina. All photos courtesy of Cómo vivir por fe.

05/02/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Argentina: How the Jesus Christians Defeated Pablo Salum and PROTEX

In 2022, the leading Argentinian anti-cultist and the controversial anti-trafficking prosecutorial office were told by a federal judge that their accusations against a “cult” were false.

Kingdom’s Hall of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. From Twitter.

05/01/2023 Massimo Introvigne

UK Supreme Court: Jehovah’s Witnesses Not Responsible for Rape Committed by a (then) Elder in a Non-Institutional Setting

Religious organizations should not pay damages for crimes perpetrated by their leaders or members in private homes outside of church-organized religious activity, the court said.

One of Salum’s anti-Buddhist posts on Twitter.

04/27/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Did French Diplomacy Support an Anti-Cult Extremist Who Calls Buddhists and LDS “Cultists”?

Argentinian Pablo Salum includes among “cultists” even the Catholic Discalced Carmelite nuns. He claims that in 2013 he was offered collaboration by the French Embassy.

Entrance to the Arizona Supreme Court building in Phoenix. Credits. 

04/15/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Arizona Supreme Court Protects Secret of Confession in a LDS Case

Although a man had boasted of his sexual abuse of his daughter on social media, what he told to his Mormon church leaders in a confessional context remains protected.

Ryodans in Russia. From Telegram.

04/14/2023 Massimo Introvigne

PMC Ryodan: A Strange Story of Comics, Anti-Cultists, and the Kremlin

Anti-cultists persuaded Russian authorities that fans of a Japanese comic are “cultists” controlled by Ukraine—where they are also arrested, as “Russian agents.”

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