Escapee Details Harrowing Faith-Breaking Trauma
... Because of the intervention of groups opposed to the Family Federation, many families have been destroyed and are suffering. The 4,300 victims of abduction and confinement experienced hellish suffering, and the families who carried…
Healing Bonds After Dehumanizing Faith-Breaking
... Sarutahiko established the group to help reconcile parent-child relationships shattered by abduction and confinement. The group provides consultations and also visits the graves of parents or believers who took their own lives due to…
Coerced Testimonies? Lawyers Under Scrutiny
... In civil cases, unlike in criminal cases, fact-finding is generally less stringent. Particularly in cases involving new religious movements, court judgments are often influenced not by objective evidence but by the voices of those…
Outcry Grows: Japan’s Religious Freedom Abuses
... The Japanese government’s attempt to destroy religion is extremely dangerous,” warned former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich at an international conference on religious freedom held in Seoul, South Korea, on 11th April.
Dehumanizing Abuse Enabled by “Mind Control” Myth
... The husband was tied up with ropes and had a black cloth bag placed over his head when he was forced into a vehicle. The wife, while visiting her parents, was tied by her…
Faith Broken by Force: Secrets of Shady Network
... In one case, a former believer using the pseudonym Yukie Funabashi, from Nagano Prefecture returned to her family home at the end of 2010. While helping clean a storehouse at her family’s request, she…
Hamada: Political Forces Behind Dissolution Push
... On the matter of religious freedom, Hamada noted that only a handful of “intellectuals and political commentators are speaking out about it,” and expressed concern that “the mainstream media in Japan are still attacking…
Courts: “Faith-Breaking Is Malicious Criminal Act”
... Kanamori expressed frustration, saying, “The parents who were deceived into believing that confinement would surely lead to de-conversion were also victims manipulated by the pastors.”
Couple Abducted by Family! Held Captive 5 Days
... Kanamori expressed her deep sorrow and frustration, “What I find hardest to forgive is how this has hurt my children’s hearts.”
True Parents’ Message and Proclamation
... This world will now gradually be set in order under Your dominion, and a world of one family of humankind attending the Heavenly Parent with true love will surely unfold. In the name of…