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Bitter Winter

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“Apostate” Unification Church ex-member Sayuri Ogawa. Screenshot.

02/28/2023 Massimo Introvigne

“Religious Abuse of Children”: Another Assault Against Religious Liberty in Japan. 2. “Psychological abuse”

Many practices qualified as “religious psychological abuse” by the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are just normal expressions of freedom of religion.

Central Government Building no. 5, in Tokyo, hosting the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Credits.

02/27/2023 Massimo Introvigne

“Religious Abuse of Children”: Another Assault Against Freedom of Religion in Japan. 1. A New Notion of “Abuse”

Guidelines by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare substantially limit parents’ rights to pass religious faith to their children.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Norwegian remote translation office and theocratic school facility, which served as the Norway branch office until 2012 (when the work in Norway came under the supervision of the Scandinavia branch, located in Denmark). Source: jw.org.

02/25/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Norway: Why the European Court of Human Rights Rejected a Complaint from a Disfellowshipped Former Jehovah’s Witness

The case of a disfellowshipped woman who demanded that courts compel the Jehovah’s Witnesses to readmit her was widely misinterpreted by the media.

Central Government Building no. 4 in Tokyo, where the Consumer Affairs Agency, which issued the guidelines, is located. Credits.

02/25/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Japan’s Guidelines on Religious Donations: The Great Return of Brainwashing Pseudo-Science

If you donate to a movement that the society views with hostility, it is assumed you were a victim of “mind control.”

Attorney Akmal Bhatti and Sitara Arif. From Twitter.

02/24/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Pakistan: Catholic Girl, 15, Kidnapped and Forcibly Married to 60-Year-Old Muslim Man

Sitara Arif was kidnapped on December 15. It took two months to persuade the police to investigate the case.

Letter by 80+ Ukrainian Academics

02/23/2023 Bitter Winter

A Second Letter by 80+ Ukrainian Academics Urges President Macron to Stop French Support to the Anti-Cult Federation FECRIS

The Ukrainian scholars also denounce the presence in the governmental anti-cult agency MIVILUDES of a politician who supported the Russian occupation of Crimea.

Murdered: Norwegian medical doctor Rasheed Ahmad. From Twitter.

02/22/2023 Marco Respinti

Norwegian Ahmadi Assassinated in Pakistan

The 75-year-old Dr. Rasheed Ahmad was the victim of a hate crime and of the climate of growing anti-Ahmadi intolerance.

Jehovah’s Witnesses evangelizing in Frankfurt, Germany. Source: jw.org.

02/21/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Sexual Abuse Allegations Unmasked as Groundless in Germany

An ex-member and a newspaper accused them of horrific abuses. They asked a State Prosecutor to investigate. No evidence of abuse was found.

Pandava Brothers

02/20/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Panj Tirath: Legal Battle Over a Sacred Hindu Site in Pakistan

The Peshawar site, connected with the Mahabharata, was given to a local amusement park, which now refuses to give it back.

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