Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... FOREF, the Forum for Religious Freedom Europe, organized on October 4 in its center in Vienna an Info Evening on the theme “Japan: The Ongoing Fight for Religious Freedom.” Guests in a fully packed…
... “It’s painful to resent the parents who raised you. That’s why, like me, some might question the church rather than blame their parents. Perhaps there’s a desire to turn what is really a parent-child…
... It is about demonstrations in large cities on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu where members of the former Unification Church (now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification) express their…
... The "Principle People" movement arrived in Czechoslovakia from Austria following the occupation in 1968. Its ideas rapidly spread throughout the country, especially inspiring the youth. Due to the anti-Marxist orientation of their teachings, members…
... After the scandal of illegal abductions and enforced persuasion and the publication of pictures of Toru Goto emaciated and ill after his release from a twelve year-confinement, it seems that the Japanese State is now trying…
... The Catholics and Buddhists have such practices, but needless to say this provision is not intended to be applied to traditional or “socially acceptable” religions, but only to new religious movements derogatorily labeled as…
... There is no doubt that the invitation by UC members for newcomers to participate in seminars or training sessions “allowing the doctrines, ‘Divine Principle,’ to gradually permeate their understanding,” as it was described in…
... To raise awareness about reality of coercive faith-breaking against followers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly the Unification Church), the Kumamoto Citizens’ Association for the Protection of Basic Human Rights…
... The ensuing media frenzy put pressure on the Japanese Government to cut any ties with the Church and, under the accusations from the Lawyers’ Network making them responsible for the disaster, the Government officials…
... In order to invalidate the good faith and strong beliefs of the followers, the theory of undue influence or “brainwashing evangelism” has been forged and underlies all the claims for torts filed by the…