Academics have a key role in persuading the courts and the governments that “cults” and “brainwashing” are pseudo-scientific labels used to discriminate against unpopular religious minorities.
Discrimination of Copts in Egyptian sport damages human rights, religious liberty, and the country’s results in international sport events as well.
Denied by some art historians, the influence of the Theosophical Society (which in turn rejected his artistic theories as too complicated) remained crucial until the Dutch painter’s last days. .
Persecuted in Russia, devotees of the “Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire” may now be banned in Belarus too.
Arrests were carried out earlier this month, following previous raids in Moscow and Krasnodar.
Saad Husain Rizvi and Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali were sentenced to four and fourteen years in jail respectively by the District Court of The Hague.
The judges accepted the bizarre theory that the book promotes hostility to Russia, in addition to LGBT activism and extremism.
The two leaders of the movement founded by Gregorian Bivolaru are threatened with “life imprisonment” for the pseudo-crime of “psychological subjugation.”
As members of the secretive movement are in the news accused of sexual abuse, we publish a translation of an encyclopedia entry by the late Italian scholar PierLuigi Zoccatelli, clarifying who they are.
The Director of Hospital México had removed the image in the name of religious freedom of non-Catholics. A nurse sued him and won.