Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... We respectfully urge the United Nations human rights bodies to remind the Japanese authorities of their obligations to protect freedom of religion or belief, freedom of peaceful assembly, and freedom of expression for all…
... school staff is instructed to take action even in the absence of any request from the child or any indication of problems in the child’s family life. They are instructed to look for signs…
The argument that second generation followers “suffer” and need help is a fabrication designed to justify the indoctrination of these children in Japanese public schools.
... since Japanese pastors have stopped practicing deprogramming and the “counseling” of reluctant members has declined, Japanese lawyers are seeking to collaborate with Korean pastors who are actively fighting against heresy and who are known…
The fact that this “harm” was presented by a lawyer from the “National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales,” a group that has vowed to bring about the destruction of the Church, and that this…
The Supreme Court should now move beyond its 1996 Decision, deepen its understanding of the current Constitution—which, unlike the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, expressly guarantees freedom of association—and thereby…
... the fundamental cause of the Decision’s multiple errors in interpreting both constitutional law and the Religious Corporations Act lies in its failure to recognize that Article 20, paragraph 1 of the Constitution guarantees religious…
... when the state refuses to grant legal personality to a group, or deprives it of legal personality once it has been acquired, it effectively denies that group the precondition for enjoying a wide range…
... Japan’s legal system concerning the acquisition of legal personality by intermediate groups has undergone fundamental reform. Today, the interest of such groups in acquiring and maintaining legal personality should by no means be left…
... the position that treats the freedom of association and the conferral of legal personality as separate issues has, in recent years, been significantly challenged by influential counterarguments, to the extent that it can no…