A book used to criticize the Jehovah’s Witnesses tells us more about the author’s dysfunctional family than about religion.
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“Pasaulietė”: Deimantė Rudžinskaitė and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1. The Lithuanian Context
A recent memoir about the conflict between a daughter and her mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, should be understood in the context of local controversies.
A Selective Compassion? President Lee’s Chuseok and the Detention of a Religious Refugee
South Korea celebrates the resilience of North Korean refugees. Yet, it keeps arbitrarily one such refugee, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, in jail. An emic view from a Unificationist scholar.
“Return Every Child”: Yale’s Forensic Portrait of Russia’s War on Ukrainian Childhood
How Putin steals and indoctrinates Ukrainian children, and why his ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity is fully justified.
Grave Religious Liberty Concerns in Japan: The Unification Church Case
The action to dissolve the Family Federation and the indoctrination of unpopular minorities’ second-generation children in schools violate international law.
The Secular Storm: The Strange Japanese Antipathy Towards Religion
Ian Reader and Clark Chilson’s “On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan” is required reading for understanding what’s going on in Japan.
When Religious Liberty Becomes a Family Feud: Paul Murray vs the Unification Church
An op-ed supporting the crackdowns in Korea and Japan was written by an executive from a split group that has been at odds with Ms. Moon for years.
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 4. The China and Japan Connection
Why are Christian anti-cultists cooperating with leftist Japanese lawyers and an atheistic regime that persecutes religion?
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 3. Criminal Anti-Cultism: Deprogramming
The practice of kidnapping, confining, and “de-converting” members of “cults” has been banned in all democratic countries—except Korea, where some victims died.
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 2. The Korean Anti-Cult Movement
The opposition to “cults” in the country is mostly a fundamentalist Protestant affair focused on preventing “sheep stealing” and competition.