Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak
The anti-cult campaigns following the assassination of Shinzo Abe generated not only hate speech but physical violence as well. Two women tell their stories.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
The anti-cult campaigns following the assassination of Shinzo Abe generated not only hate speech but physical violence as well. Two women tell their stories.
A long history of repression has forced believers to flee the country. Some are now seeking asylum in Hong Kong.
A woman accused of being a “cultist sexual predator” was kept in jail until she accepted to declare herself a “victim” of the “guru” and became an anti-cult lecturer.
Japan sent envoys to Senegal to destroy the relationship between the Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP), founded by the leaders of the Unification Church, and two schools it had built there.
A California State Appellate Court confirmed a typical American principle, and one at odds with the case law of other countries.
Nazir Gil Masih, lynched by a mob in Sargodha, died in the hospital. The situation is no longer tolerable, the American commission says.
An international gathering of scholars hosted by the Church of Scientology in Rome raised questions of great importance for all faiths.
Attacks against Western ships in the Red Sea have alerted many to the danger of Yemen’s Houthis. They have also created dramatic human rights problems.
The full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rehear the case. Only the Washington Justices can now save the site from destruction.
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