Media as First Power and Today’s Witch Hunts
... When many people later realized the whole thing was fabricated, I asked a Nishinippon Shimbun reporter why they had believed the teacher was guilty. They said it was because the Board of Education had…
Evil: Deprogramming Destroys Families and Minds
... Deprogramming, involving abduction, confinement, and forced renunciation of faith, mainly targeting believers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, does not end even after the believers declare they have abandoned their faith.
Gross State Violations of Freedom of Conscience
... individuals involved should be held socially, morally, and criminally responsible. However, he warns that “mocking not only the individuals who caused problems, but also all believers and even the belief system itself” must not…
Japan: Deprogrammed Believers Sent to Infiltrate
... Starting in 1998, new believers – those who had only just joined – began being abducted and confined in rapid succession. Over a period of less than two years, at least 18 individuals were…
Decades-Old Civil Harm Claims and Fabrications
... The court relied only on deprogrammed apostates for facts dating back from 20 to 40 years before. In violation of international law, the court found what they according to social norms considered to be…
Lone-Wolf Theory Disputed in Abe Assassination
... Yamagami was arrested and indicted after he attacked and killed Abe with a homemade gun during a campaign speech on July 8, 2022. Ahead of the citizen jury trial, there have been seven rounds…
Doctor’s Ordeal of Abduction and Faith-Breaking
... The pastors of the Christian churches were generally simple and honest, and the atmosphere in the churches was peaceful. But the pastors who engaged in “forced rescue” of believers had become extremely, extremely radical…
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 7.
... Even if this “deprogramming” practice seemingly ended thereafter, the court cases that were built on it are now used to achieve the dissolution of the Church and bring about its destruction per the original…
Oslo Religious Freedom Conference
... Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or…
Japan: 12 Years in Captivity – Now Fighting Back
... Goto, who serves as the representative of the National Association of Victims of Abduction, Confinement, and Forced Religious De-Conversion, reflected on his ordeal, saying, “It was a despicable act that deprived me of all…