by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Feb 5, 2014 | news
On September 5, 2013 there was a massive police raid on the Twelve Tribes, a communal NRM in Germany. A hundred police (local and “criminal”) and around 60 social workers descended at dawn on the two farming communities of Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz. The raid came as a complete surprise to the sleeping families. The police seized 40 children from 16 families and drove off in 25 vans.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 30, 2014 | news
HRWF (24.01.2014) – On 22 January 2014 the Tver Regional Court reversed a country wide ban that had been imposed by the trial court on www.jw.org, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the world (*) On 7 August 2013, during an ex parte...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 14, 2014 | news
Collective list of questions for the public hearing by the German Parliament’s Commission for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid on October 27, 2010 on the topic of “Freedom of Religion and European Identity” Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. theol. Thomas Schirrmacher, October 22,...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 14, 2014 | news
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain was formed in June 2007 in order to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam. The main aims of the organisation are to provide support to and highlight the plight of ex-Muslims, challenge Sharia and apostasy laws and take a...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 9, 2014 | news
Many were surprised by the recent lecture given by the sect expert A.L. Dvorkin on the history of Islam at the Northern Arctic Federal University that offended Russian Moslems by its contents and received negative responses from leading Islamic figures. It surprised, first of all with the fact that Dvorkin, apparently, practically did not concern Islam earlier in his antisectarian speeches and now suddenly unexpectedly “debuted” in this field.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 8, 2014 | news
The orthodox sect expert Alexander Dvorkin who is the head of advisory council at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation where he examines materials on existence of religious extremism and intolerance, recently gave students in Arkhangelsk an open lecture on history of Islam where he made offensive statements about Muslim doctrine and the prophet Mohammed. Video of this lecture was published on the website of the local diocese, as mentioned in Alexander Stepanov’s blog on “Ekho Moskvy”.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 8, 2014 | news
On March 15, 2013, 10:42 Recently in Arkhangelsk, the orthodox sect expert Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin gave students an open lecture on the origins of Islam. Video of that lecture was published on the website of the local diocese. That lecture deserves special...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jan 7, 2014 | news
By Brian Pellot | Religion News Service, Published: December 31 LONDON — Eight of the 47 countries that hold seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council imprisoned people in 2013 under laws that restrict religious freedom, according to a new report from Human...