Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... Deprogramming, involving abduction, confinement, and forced renunciation of faith, mainly targeting believers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, does not end even after the believers declare they have abandoned their faith.
... individuals involved should be held socially, morally, and criminally responsible. However, he warns that “mocking not only the individuals who caused problems, but also all believers and even the belief system itself” must not…
... Starting in 1998, new believers – those who had only just joined – began being abducted and confined in rapid succession. Over a period of less than two years, at least 18 individuals were…
... The court relied only on deprogrammed apostates for facts dating back from 20 to 40 years before. In violation of international law, the court found what they according to social norms considered to be…
... Yamagami was arrested and indicted after he attacked and killed Abe with a homemade gun during a campaign speech on July 8, 2022. Ahead of the citizen jury trial, there have been seven rounds…
... The pastors of the Christian churches were generally simple and honest, and the atmosphere in the churches was peaceful. But the pastors who engaged in “forced rescue” of believers had become extremely, extremely radical…
... Even if this “deprogramming” practice seemingly ended thereafter, the court cases that were built on it are now used to achieve the dissolution of the Church and bring about its destruction per the original…
... Goto, who serves as the representative of the National Association of Victims of Abduction, Confinement, and Forced Religious De-Conversion, reflected on his ordeal, saying, “It was a despicable act that deprived me of all…
... the anti-cult movement or the deprogrammers themselves communicated the names of believers’ parents, who had never complained of anything, to NNLSS lawyers. The latter compiled lists of believers’ names through the “loyalty test”—a step…
... Therefore, the leading figure of NNLSS, lawyer Yamaguchi, admitted in Court that the Network had been referring parents of Unification Church believers for years to pastors specialized in the “rescue” from the Unification Church.