Religious Freedom Threat: China-Led Alliance
... “In South Korea, leaders of Christian groups and the Family Federation who have drawn the attention of the government are being detained one after another.”
Unificationism Emerging as a World Religion
... When culture, religion, and civil society interact constructively, a nation’s soft power becomes deeper and more multidimensional. Seen in this light, the responsibility for stewarding this legacy belongs not only to the religious movement…
How to Kill a Religion: South Korea’s Proposed “Church Dissolution Act”
... If the “Church Dissolution Act” becomes law, South Korea will join the small group of nations, led by China, that have granted themselves the authority to extinguish religious organizations perceived as not supporting the…
A Growing Religious Liberty Crisis in South Korea Denounced at the United Nations
... The Human Rights Council should take this warning seriously. Freedom of religion or belief is a universal right, not limited to the majority faiths. CAP‑LC rightly insists that Korea must reverse course before the…
Silencing the Churches: Why Korea’s New Rhetoric Threatens Democratic Freedom
... President Lee’s comments deserve careful, principled examination. The issue is not whether religious groups should follow the law; they must. The problem is whether the law will be changed to criminalize religious participation, especially…
New S. Korean Laws Let State Police Religions
... the president had asked officials to examine whether religious foundations themselves could be dissolved. This immediately raised alarms about the separation of church and state and the protection of religious freedom ‒ core constitutional…
When Special Prosecutors Become Political Tools
... the situation offers a cautionary example of how legal mechanisms designed to protect democracy can, if overused or politicized, contribute to deeper institutional mistrust and prolonged political conflict rather than accountability and reform.
At Issue: Religions Taking Reality Seriously
... This controversy is not caused by irrational belief or theological impurity. On the contrary, the problem is that event religions are very realistic. They intrude into areas that societies tend to guard carefully: marriage,…
State Failure and Non-State Peace Projects
... True peace, the opinion piece argues, begins when governments are willing to reclaim that role ‒ so that big ideas no longer have to enter politics through the backdoor at all.
Not Church-State Collusion, but Church-State Partnership
... the debate is not merely about one religious organization or one country. It raises a universal question for pluralistic societies: can we distinguish principled secular governance from selective suspicion, and cooperation for the common…