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Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Statement by Religious Freedom and Human Rights Organizations On Japanese Government’s Undemocratic Request to Dissolve a Minority Religion

Twelve International Human Rights and Religious Freedom Organizations Have Signed a Statement Published in Bitter Winter Warning Japanese Political Leaders That They are Acting More Like a Totalitarian Regime Than a Democracy Washington, DC, the U.S. & TORINO, Italy, Oct. 14, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed [...]

NGO Seeks Help From Advocates of Human Rights and Religious Freedom to Stop the Persecution

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Exclusive Interview with Japanese NGO Leader Moriko Hori About Daily Discrimination Against Their Volunteers, Programs Washington, DC, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Exclusive Interview with Japanese NGO Leader Moriko Hori About Daily Discrimination Against Their Volunteers, [...]

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes an Analysis by a Leading Japanese Christian Theologian on the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church Issue

“This is the first religious persecution in the post-war history, and it could also greatly undermine Japanese constitutionalism” – Haruhisa Nakagawa, President, Japan Christian Theological Institute Washington, DC, Oct. 01, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – “This is the first religious persecution in the post-war history, and it could also greatly undermine Japanese constitutionalism” – Haruhisa Nakagawa, [...]

The Human Rights and Rights to Religious Freedom of 600,000 Japanese Citizens are at Risk

CESNUR – Human Rights and Religious Freedom Experts Decry Government Persecution of Minority Religion in Japan Washington, DC, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Center for Studies on New Religions, Human Rights and Religious Freedom Experts Decry Government Persecution of Minority Religion in Japan CESNUR’s Bitter Winter Magazine Posts Booklet Explaining Why Japanese Government [...]

Bitter Winter Magazine Posts Letter Explaining Why Japanese Leaders and People Should Guarantee Religious Freedom to the Unification Church/Family Federation

Washington, DC, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — TORINO, Italy—Bitter Winter, the magazine of the Centre for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), has published a letter that was sent to Japan’s key leaders about religious freedom in Japan in July 2023. In their “Letter to the Government: Why Japan Should Guarantee Religious Liberty to the Unification [...]

In the Latest Bitter Winter Publication, Award-Winning Japanese Journalist Exposes the Campaign Against the Unification Church as a Political Plot

TORINO, Italy, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Masumi Fukuda, an award-winning Japanese journalist, claims that the campaign to strip the Unification Church, now called Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, of its status as a religious organization in Japan, uses the controversies following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a pretext [...]