by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Mar 28, 2013 | news
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.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Feb 6, 2013 | news
“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...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Feb 6, 2013 | news
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...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Dec 24, 2012 | news
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.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Dec 22, 2012 | news
The handling of new spiritual movements by the french state
Sect and children the official figures
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 14, 2012 | news
France, the cradle of laïcité and the driving force of the anti-sect fight in Europe promoting the separation between State and religion; the State where FECRIS was created and which finances it nearly entirely with public funds.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 14, 2012 | news
Between 11 September 2009 and 12 May 2012 there have been 1,372 incidents where the rights of individual believers have been violated. Law enforcement officials have detained 1,278 believers, carried out 136 searches of homes and houses of worship, and disrupted 17 religious services. Individual citizens opposed to Jehovah’s Witnesses have committed 111 acts of violence against at least 208 Jehovah’s Witnesses and committed 85 acts of vandalism against their places of worship. The authorities have done little or nothing to prevent or to punish these criminal acts.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 1, 2012 | news
States should ensure that school curriculums, when providing information on religious or belief-related issues, contribute to the elimination of negative stereotypes and prejudices against converts and persons or groups engaged in non-coercive missionary activities. This should also be a guiding consideration for assessing the quality of textbooks used in schools;
