Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... This is the first time this has happened in Japan under its postwar constitution, a country where democracy has taken root, and which has become an advanced nation. This development could potentially affect many other minority religions…
... Our organization has documented over 4,300 members who have been subjected to abduction and confinement by family members who strongly oppose their faith. They have also faced severe human rights violations, including forced renunciation of…
... employees have voiced that it is ‘difficult to refuse’ solicitations for subscriptions to newspapers like Shimbun Akahata within government offices due to customary practices. In Samukawa Town as well, it has come to light…
... The reporter is certainly trying his best to paint a negative picture of Yamagami’s mother, called Mrs. A by the magazine. Even though she had nothing to do with the assassination, she gets the blame. Weekly…
... they also touched on the dissolution order request issued by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. It was argued that “by advancing this, they are trying to bury and conceal the abduction and…
... A symposium titled “The Role Played by the Unification Movement (統一運動) and Its Prospects for the Future”, hosted by the Hiroshima Prefecture Ambassadors for Peace Council was held on 19th May 2024 in Hiroshima City, with…
... Amidst increasing national persecution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly the Unification Church), a gathering of Tochigi Prefecture residents to consider basic human rights – organized by the Tochigi Prefecture Residents Association to Protect…
... regarding the Family Federation, an issue that I believe should be addressed in the Diet (parliament), is the problem of forced renunciation of faith (forced de-conversion, forced apostasy, deprogramming, faith-breaking). ‘Renunciation of faith’ means…
... So, we are very much back to 2001, and of course, in Japan, we are back to the eighties, when the National Network launched its campaign against the Unification Church.
... What’s happening is that there is the labeling, not just of “cults”, but “xie-jiao” (邪教) in China, which means “unorthodox heresy” or something like that, but which is translated as “evil cult”. And once a religion is…