Employee Harassed and Fired Due to Her Religion
... When I look back at the messages the owner sent me, I still feel upset, remembering those times. I’m quite a strong-willed person, and I continued working at a new job after that trouble.…
Vandal Attacks on Cars and Homes of Members
... the manager began harassing her further, using her faith as a pretext. Through social media, he started making new criticisms, such as “You don’t seem motivated,” and “Your work attitude is bad.” He had…
Forced by His Father to Forfeit Inheritance
... One day, I finished attending a lecture on the Unification Principle at church, and on my way home, a group of about seven or eight men, including my father and uncle, surrounded me and…
Mother: “Daughter’s Suicide Because of Media Bias”
... after the incident with former Prime Minister Abe on 8th July 2022, media reports on TV or online were very critical of the Family Federation, and my daughter watched the reports all the time…
Witch Hunt Compromises Safety for Believers
... Two years ago, on the night of 15th August 2022, the Meijo Church suffered vandalism, with graffiti spray-painted on its entrance doors, with words like “cult” and “danger”. This was a month after the…
Believers Facing Discrimination, Insults, Threats
... The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly the Unification Church) has revealed that its members and places of worship have been experiencing various forms of harm since the assassination of former Prime…
Protesting Appalling Attack on Minority Rights
... Shingo Inoue (井上真吾), a member of the Kitakyushu City Council, also attended and said, “As one of the council members who declared a severance of relations with the Family Federation in December of the…
Religious Freedom Head Sounds Alarm about Japan
... Religious liberty is in fact the first political human right. It is the right to believe or not to believe in God, the Supreme Being, or any supernatural, overarching, and all-encompassing cosmic entity or…
New Legal Interpretation for Specific Group
... if you are outraged by the sudden change in legal interpretation regarding the retirement age of prosecutors, saying “don’t repeat reckless actions,” why do you approve of the sudden change in legal interpretation regarding…
Kishida Succumbed to Pressure from Biased Media
... I think it is unfair that only the Family Federation is being oppressed. Out of 700 members of parliament, it is strange that not a single one addresses the issue of the Family Federation.