Fulfilling Our Responsibility as the Chosen People in Unity with True Parents While Attending the Heavenly Parent
... The Family Federation asserts that donations mainly support overseas missionary activities and educational expenses, aligning with the core purposes of religious corporations. They maintain that donation collection aims to support these activities rather than financial gain.
... Masumi Fukuda points out how the activist network has successfully collaborated with the media to shape this negative perception, painting the former Unification Church as an “enemy of the people”. However, in her opinion, the NNLASS’s…
... “I’m going to talk about what Japan is doing at a more visceral level. You all remember the expression “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” Right now, Japan is in the process of getting…
... And as you said, religious freedom is a primary freedom. I would add that religious freedom is a litmus test for all human rights, because if the freedom is not respected which is the innermost freedom, then…
... On 31st January, the second day of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit aimed at promoting religious freedom worldwide, held in the capital Washington DC, saw harsh criticism from former U.S. government officials and scholars…
... What we discovered was that the dissolution effort was really started by the Japanese Communist Party, which as early as 1978 began attacking the Unification Church because the Church‘s God-affirming message was directly contrary to the atheistic beliefs of…
... in many of such lawsuits against the Family Federation, we see “puppet” connections. We can call it “forced ‘puppet’ lawsuits”. What happened is like this: Deprogrammers in consultation with leftwing lawyers deprogrammed as many as…
persecution in Japan ... I feel a sense of crisis when I see that the whole of Japan is silent on a process trampling freedom of belief and freedom of religion without following the proper…
persecution in Japan ... Massimo Introvigne highlights a lack of neutral and independent organizations in Japan similar to those found in Europe, such as the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) in Italy and INFORM in England. He suggests that…
... This approach mirrors practices in authoritarian states like China and Russia, where state-sponsored deprogramming is common. Japan’s plan involves collaborating with apostate ex-members to train counselors who will provide support to current members, including…