Jehovah’s Witnesses to have chaplains in prisons
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Fight against sects: the orientations of Georges Fenech continue to generate worry Le Monde 2009 04 06 Six months after his posting as head of Miviludes, he should receive in the coming days his official battle plan from the Prime Minister who has direct authority...German Jesuits offer payment to sex-abuse victims
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Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief, 9-10 December 2010, Vienna
According to this guide, a child born in a family in which the parents are followers of a religious minority, is immersed in their beliefs, which for MIVILUDES can be analyzed as a symbolic confinement in the family. For MIVILUDES, the world of the grown-ups imposes itself to the child as a reference in terms of behaviour, values, ideas and beliefs. Under constant construction, the future identity of the child will thus be deeply marked according to MIVILUDES by the beliefs of his parents.
