Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... In Another Tragedy in Japan, James Edgerly provides a powerful, compassionate account of a religious community caught in the crossfire of decades-long ideological warfare, public outrage, and legal overreach. The booklet goes beyond chronicle…
... the CCP, through its loyal anti-cult agency, tells us that the Tokyo verdict applies the same categories used against religion in China, benefits Chinese interests, destroys an anti-communist organization, prepares a broader crackdown on…
... These are the plain facts. Readers may decide for themselves whether that Communist agencies and countries worked for the dissolution of the Unification Church because of its promotion of an “anti-Communist ideology” is just…
... communism was not an abstract ideological threat – it was a force sweeping through the developing world and influencing Japan’s own leftist student and labor movements. The IFVOC, he argues, stepped in to provide…
On 6th August, a group called the “Association of Experts Demanding a Fair and Just Trial”, consisting of lawyers, scholars, writers, and religious figures, held a press conference in Tokyo. They issued a statement calling…
... testified about being confined by his parents and relatives, and pressured to renounce his faith by deprogrammers and Christian pastors. He described how he feigned renunciation to escape, but said: “That was the beginning…
... the Family Federation sees the court’s decision as favoring the plaintiffs and ignoring the religious organization’s side of the story. The statement that the provisional seizure is “one-sided” means that the Family Federation believes…
... if the Family Federation, which has committed no criminal acts, is forcibly dissolved, then Christian churches could be next under public scrutiny – and eventually, it could even affect Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai.…
... I think that we, as other religious sects, will eventually be unable to defend ourselves when a dissolution order request is directed at us with unreasonable logic.
... the root of the issue lies in the fact that some Christian pastors have targeted Family Federation believers and subjected them to forcible faith-breaking (de-conversion, renunciation of faith) involving abduction and confinement.