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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.
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 1. “Vicious Raids on Churches”
Churches raided, internationally famous religious leaders mistreated, and religion-based political mobilizations prohibited. What exactly is happening in South Korea?
The Cult of Consensus: Japan’s Anti-Cultists’ Chinese and Western Connections
“Cult” opponents in Japan started networking with China and the American and European anti-cult movement well before the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
Religiously Irreligious: Celebrating Pietro Gori, the Rebel Prophet of Rosignano
August 14 was the 160th anniversary of the birth of the famous anarchist, who lived his political beliefs as if they were a religion.