New schoolbased procedures instruct educators to identify and monitor children from Unification Church families, raising concerns about privacy violations.
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Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 3. The Government’s “Re-Education” Plan
New state policies introduce schoolbased programs designed to reshape the thinking of minors from Unification Church families.
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge — 1. Anti Heresy Campaigns
How lawyers and religious competitors have pushed Japan toward measures that target believers even after the organization’s dissolution.
Japan: Bias Ignored as Unification Church’s Recusal Motion Is Rejected
A judge who attended an antiUnification-Church seminar and echoed its claims remains on the panel, raising grave concerns about judicial credibility.
Japan’s Justice Okino: Will a True Believer in Brainwashing Judge the Unification Church Case?
A judge who once attacked the religious organization at an anti-cult seminar is not impartial and should be recused.
Terrorism, Constitution, or Judicial Overreach?
Why the dissolution of the Family Federation raises constitutional alarms.
France TV’s “Scientology, the Empire of Secrecy” (2026). 2. Mocking Belief and Silencing Believers
The public French broadcaster treated theology as a subject of ridicule and excluded Scientologists and independent experts from its show.
France TV’s “Scientology, the Empire of Secrecy” (2026). 1. Apostates and Media Rituals
A study of a one-sided documentary that gave voice only to angry ex-members and anti-cultists—a trend that repeats itself when the media deals with “cults.”
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Cult Movement
Is the SPLC federal indictment a reckoning for the anti-cult “experts” network?









