IRF Roundtable meeting March 12
The venue will be like : At the Renaissance Hotel – Room Lisbon – Rue du Parnasse 19 – Brussels 2 minutes walk from the EU Parliament For your information, part of he agenda will be a briefing by Thomas Schirrmacher, director of the International Institute...GERMANY: Anti-Cult Activism vs. Sociology of Religion. A matter of opinion?
The Twelve Tribes Controversy Continued by Erich Mayer MUNICH, 12.02.2015 (FOREF Europe) – On Sept. 5, 2013 German authorities seized 42 children from a Twelve Tribes Community in Klosterzimmern, near the Bavarian town of Nördlingen. 100 policemen and 60 social...GERMANY: Controversy Surrounding “Twelve Tribes” – Sociologist Warns against Targeted Misinformation by Sect Experts
How a Religious Community Gets Harassed by Authorities Spurred on by FECRIS. Do “Sect Experts” Use Controversial Deprogramming Methods to Turn Children against their own Parents?
F.O.B. letter sent to the director of the weekly magazine L’Espresso
Dear Director, FOB (Freedom Of Belief) wishes to express their deep shock at the article “Cults and gurus grow up – the institutions turn a blind eye” by Carmine Gazzanni, published by your magazine on the 8th of January 2015. The word “cult”, whose use was already...The sound of journalists turning in their graves: exploiting grief for political ends
HRWF (13.01.2014) – It was an incredible display of support and solidarity. It would have been even more so, had it not been for the curious array of world leaders that turned out to ‘stand up’ for freedom of expression in Paris on Sunday. Families...In Prison for their Faith: Mapping 20 Countries
a report of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l North Korea, China and Iran top three countries massively arresting and imprisoning believers in 2014 Press Release Brussels, Monday 29 December 2014 HRWF Int’l (29.12.2014) – In 2014, three countries...Austria’s Violations of Freedom of Religion
FOREF Europe Reports to the UN Human Rights Committee VIENNA, 23.12.2014 (FOREF) – The Forum for Religious Freedom Europe filed this report on cases of violations of the freedom of religion in Austria and sent it to the UN Human Rights Committee for further...
