Russia | Bitter Winter

Ukraine: Orthodox United Against Putin

Even the Orthodox Church in communion with the Patriarchate of Moscow called Ukrainians to resistance, comparing the Russian President to Cain.

The relationship between Russia and Ukraine is a “terrible kinship.” Just as the relationship China has with the Uyghurs.

In two judgments rendered on February 22, the Strasbourg judges decided that the human rights of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses had been violated.

“Experts” call Reiki an “occult religion” or a “destructive cult.” They misunderstand what Reiki is all about.

Judges find that arguments that Scientology is not a religion are unpersuasive, and its literature is not “extremist.”

Groups cannot be singled out as “cults” and discriminated through anti-cult propaganda or by using administrative tools, the judges said.

In Irkutsk, Siberia, Jehovah’s Witnesses believers were badly beaten and threatened with rape by OMON special forces agents.

The European Court of Human Rights’ Kuropyatnik decision is a clear message to Russian authorities: stop persecuting Scientology.

Dvorkin’s organization admits that criticism of anti-cultism “has spread even within the Church.” One of the academic critics is losing his chair.

On July 8, the Court of Kemerovo (Russia) ruled against the Falun Gong movement in what may become a crucial case.