There is no logical reason to change decades of case law and hold that civil torts, not crimes only, may be reasons to dissolve a religious organization.
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The Supreme Court and the Unification Church in Japan: Warrant for a “Religiocide”? Part 1
A Supreme Court decision may open the way to the dissolution of the religious organization by overturning decades of case law.
Deprogramming Unification Church Children in Japan. 2. Psychiatric Institutions May “Cure” Religious Faith
Second part of a report sent by French attorney Patricia Duval to four UN Special Rapporteurs: under the Japanese “Plan,” religious belief may be considered a form of psychiatric disease.
Deprogramming Unification Church Children in Japan. 1. A New “Plan”
A report sent by French attorney Patricia Duval to four United Nations Special Rapporteurs on an alarming part of the Japanese anti-cult campaign.
Unification Church in Japan: A Monumental Rebuttal to Scholar Yoshihide Sakurai’s Criticism
A Japanese academic who is himself a former member of the Unification Church reviews UC member Shunsuke Uotani’s magnum opus criticizing Sakurai’s views.
Trump on Ukraine and Russia: A Colossal Moral Failure
U.S. President Donald Trump reverses the concepts of good and evil, delivering a devastating blow to human rights, religious liberty, and democracy.
A Candid Look at Shincheonji. 4. Life in Shincheonji
The only religion one joins not through baptism but by passing an exam had to spend decades in confronting a furious opposition.
A Candid Look at Shincheonji. 3. An Original Reading of the Bible
The role of Chairman Lee as the “promised pastor” is at the heart of the movement’s millenarian theology.
A Candid Look at Shincheonji. 2. The Making of a Church
Chairman Lee gathered some 300,000 followers and launched impressive international peace education campaigns. Accusations of having spread COVID-19 were recognized by the courts as false.
A Candid Look at Shincheonji. 1. The Story of Chairman Lee
Sensational accounts of the Korean new religious movement have been published in several countries. The reality is both different and much more interesting.