Scientology v. France Télévisions
The France Télévisions Company must pay the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre 6,000 euros for costs and damages and compensation for having undermined the group’s presumption of innocence.
Four decades the World Council of Churches and the Vatican in the scope of the Committee for State Security
A new publication in Bulgaria of top secret documents will shed more light on the historical period under review and will reveal more thoroughly Secret services’ interest in religious organizations. The book “The KGB and the Bulgarian State Security Service – connections and dependences”
Alexander Dvorkin, Vice-president of FECRIS, criticised for “controversial” lecture on Islam
Alexander Dvorkin is already well-known for his aggressive speeches and writings against Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Falun Gong practitioners, Hare Krishna devotees and other religious groups that fall outside of his Orthodox world. However, in February 2013, Dvorkin shocked Russia’s leading Islamic authorities, when he gave a lecture at the University of Arkhangelsk on the topic “Origins of Islam – Untold Stories.” During his presentation, he made several hostile and unscientific comments about the Koran and Prophet Mohammad.
State security spies on high-level politicians about their possible links with sects
“International human rights organizations can play a cleaning up role that our ‘system’ is apparently not able to play by itself,”says Senator Prof. Rik Torfs. HRWF Int’l is in support of the senator and is willing to lend him a hand in...Chamber judgments concerning France
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following three Chamber judgments1, none of which is final. The Religious Association of the Pyramid Temple/Association Cultuelle Du Temple Pyramide v. France (application no. 50471/07) The...SIKHS Win School Turban Ban Case Against France in the UN
The UN Human Rights Committee has made our nine year wait for justice worthwhile, since the French law was passed against religious signs in public schools in 2004
Religious Discrimination in France: 2011 Report for State Department
International human rights organizations have warned that the French government has retreated from its mandate toward respecting religious pluralism. In spite of the principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment, the French government has determined to arbitrarily classify religious groups into two separate categories: 1) religions viewed as law-abiding and beneficial to society; and 2) “sects” or “sectarian movements” viewed as dangerous to society, which are the targets of oppressive and discriminatory measures, and which the government declares must be “fought” against.
The handling of new spiritual movements by the french state
The handling of new spiritual movements by the french state
Sect and children the official figures
