Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... In a series of four articles, Bitter Winter, the online magazine for human rights and religious freedom, has published an in-depth report originally written in Japanese by investigative journalist Masumi Fukuda and published by the…
... I urge the Japanese government and the judiciary to listen carefully to opinions from active members of the Family Federation and explore possibilities other than issuing a dissolution order. The court’s decision will also serve as a recommendation…
... I have been involved in the world of journalism in Brazil for 40 years, but I had no knowledge whatsoever of the truly horrific human rights violations that have been committed in Japan. It’s truly terrible.…
... 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…