A Senate Committee’s report creates serious risks for religious liberty after the tragedy of Good News International Church.
Kenya: Shakahola Deaths by Fasting Should Not Be Used to Crack Down on All Religions
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The Unification Church Issue in Japan: A Japanese Christian Theologian Speaks. 2. The Other Half of the Truth About the Family Federation
The request of dissolution is based on “half-truths” that are in fact “half-lies.”
The Unification Church Issue in Japan: A Japanese Christian Theologian Speaks. 1. Lies About Abe’s Relations with the Church
The former Prime Minister was assassinated because false information was spread about him.
Argentina: PROTEX’s Dangerous Ideology. How to Fabricate “Victims of Prostitution”
A book by an Argentinian prosecutor criticizes the theory that “all” sex workers are coerced to prostitution. PROTEX goes one step further, seeing prostitutes where there are none.
Freedom of Religion or Belief: Concern About Ill-Founded Accusations of Trafficking in Argentina — A Letter to the Argentinian Authorities
Fighting human trafficking is a worthy enterprise. Weaponizing human trafficking laws to crack down on spiritual minorities and resurrect the dead horse of brainwashing theories is not. Twelve international religious liberty organizations protest.
Why Does Novopashin Deny He Has Been to China?
He has asked his son to delete his Facebook post about his visit to Harbin and now claims the trip has been invented by “Ukrainian media.”
“Zindagi Tamasha”: Pakistan Surrenders to Fundamentalists, Bans Award-Winning Film
Threats by extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik made it impossible to release in Pakistan what critics hailed as one of the best Pakistani movies of recent years.
Is 13-Year-Old Tiny Teflon the New Leader of QAnon? Well, Just of One of Its Factions
The girl has replaced Michael Protzman, who died in June, as head of those who believe President J.F. Kennedy’s deceased son John John is alive and supports Trump.
With A Little Help from My Friends: Russian Anti-Cultist Supports China Atrocities
In both China and Russia, Alexander Novopashin (with FECRIS until March 2023) lends a helping hand to the murderous anti-Falun-Gong campaign
Guru Jára and Plášková Deported to Czechia: Why They Should Be Released
They have already spent eight years in a horrible detention camp in the Philippines—which should be deducted from the terms to be served in Prague.