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Bitter Winter

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Anti-Cult

Know More on the “Anti-Cult” Activity Undertaken by the CCP.

Seoul Sungrak Church, Seoul, South Korea. From Facebook.

01/19/2023 Chen Wangli

Seoul Sungrak Church: One of the World’s Largest Baptist Churches Banned as a “Cult” in China

China’s desire to please Korean anti-cultists, with whom it regularly cooperates, may have been a factor in the decision.

Novopashin in the Kremlin, on December 12, after he was awarded the Order of Friendship from a representative of President Putin. From Telegram.

01/09/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Russia Claims It Is Under Attack from Pro-Ukrainian Psychics, “Nazi-Cannibals,” and “Evil Spirits”

This time, it is not only the usual anti-cultist Alexander Novopashin. The Federal Guard Service (FSO) claims Ukraine and the West use psychics against Putin.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès (screenshot) and the Nantes home where the bodies of his wife and children were found in 2011 (credits).

01/06/2023 Massimo Introvigne

« Église de Philadelphie » : Comment la MIVILUDES et les mouvements antisectes français ont inventé une « secte ».

En 2011, la femme et les quatre enfants d’un aristocrate français ont été assassinés. Les militants antisectes ont tenté de relier ce crime aux « sectes ». Leur action en justice vient de s’effondrer.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès (screenshot) and the Nantes home where the bodies of his wife and children were found in 2011 (credits).

01/06/2023 Massimo Introvigne

“Église de Philadelphie”: How MIVILUDES and French Anti-Cultists Invented a “Cult”

In 2011, the wife and four children of a French aristocrat were murdered. Anti-cultists tried to connect the crime with “cults.” Their legal case has now collapsed.

Germán Martín Castro, “Prometeus.” From Twitter.

12/31/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Spanish Supreme Court: Political Parties Cannot Exclude “Cult” Devotees as Candidates

The judges sanctioned the Podemos party for its discrimination of members based on the sole reason that they belonged to the Prometheus Initiatory School.

The three pastors who started the “Tonchev” case at the European Court of Human Rights: from the left, Zhivko Tonchev, of the Unified Bulgarian Good News Church; Stefan Krastev, of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church Philadelphia; and Radoslav Kiryakov, of the First Congregational Evangelical Church. From Facebook.

12/30/2022 Massimo Introvigne

European Court of Human Rights: Governments Should Not Call Minority Religions “Cults”

The Court ruled in favor of three Bulgarian Evangelical churches, and said its case law has “evolved” since it refused to censor two French report on “cults” in 2001.

The duel: Sima Nan (screenshot) vs. Zhang Wenhong (credits).

12/30/2022 Hu Zimo

China #1 “Cult-Buster” vs. China’s #1 Doctor: Who Will Win?

“Hero of atheism” and anti-cultist Sima Nan vilifies Zhang Wenhong, the chief of the anti-COVID Shanghai Medical Treatment Expert Group.

Svetlana Peunova

12/29/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Anti-Cultists Blame “Ukraine-Funded Theosophical Cult” for Russian Protests Against the War

They claim that Svetlana Peunova’s Academy of Development and Way to the Sun organized the opposition to mobilization on behalf of Ukraine.

FECRIS president Christian Gravel peddling the mission’s dubious statistics on television. Screenshot.

12/27/2022 Massimo Introvigne

Un hiver amer (Bitter Winter) pour la MIVILUDES

La crise profonde de la mission gouvernementale française de lutte contre les sectes a été révélée par la démission de sa cheffe, Hanène Romdhane.

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