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Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection, Speakers Tell UPF, Washington Times Foundation Event

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

WASHINGTON, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Constant and vigorous protection of religious freedom is essential to world peace and democracy, an array of human rights experts and religious freedom leaders told the audience at a recent event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and The Washington Times Foundation.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Constant and vigorous protection of religious freedom is essential to world peace and democracy, an array of human rights experts and religious freedom leaders told the audience at a recent event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and The Washington Times Foundation.
  • Religious freedom serves communities as well as individuals, said Prof. Cole Durham Jr., director of the Brigham Young University's International Center for Law and Religious Studies.
  • UPF and The Washington Times Foundation are committed to protect, defend and advance religious liberty universally.
  • Together we will roll back the tyranny of all God-denying ideologies and build a better world.”
    The UPF and Washington Times Foundation event was covered in a Jan. 31 Washington Times article, under the headline, “Japan’s dispute with church a test of liberty everywhere.”

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection - Speakers Tell UPF, Washington Times Foundation Event

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Monday, February 5, 2024

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,

Key Points: 
  • Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,
    If a nation disrespects religious freedom, “all other rights
    Constant and vigorous protection of religious freedom is essential to world peace and democracy, an array of human rights experts and religious freedom leaders told the audience at a recent event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and The Washington Times Foundation.
  • Religious freedom serves communities as well as individuals, said Prof. Cole Durham Jr., director of the Brigham Young University's International Center for Law and Religious Studies.
  • UPF and The Washington Times Foundation are committed to protect, defend and advance religious liberty universally.
  • Together we will roll back the tyranny of all God-denying ideologies and build a better world.”
    The UPF and Washington Times Foundation event was covered in a Jan. 31 Washington Times article, under the headline, “Japan’s dispute with church a test of liberty everywhere.”

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection - Speakers Tell UPF, Washington Times Foundation Event

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Saturday, February 3, 2024

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,

Key Points: 
  • Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,
    If a nation disrespects religious freedom, “all other rights
    Constant and vigorous protection of religious freedom is essential to world peace and democracy, an array of human rights experts and religious freedom leaders told the audience at a recent event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and The Washington Times Foundation.
  • Religious freedom serves communities as well as individuals, said Prof. Cole Durham Jr., director of the Brigham Young University's International Center for Law and Religious Studies.
  • UPF and The Washington Times Foundation are committed to protect, defend and advance religious liberty universally.
  • Together we will roll back the tyranny of all God-denying ideologies and build a better world.”
    The UPF and Washington Times Foundation event was covered in a Jan. 31 Washington Times article, under the headline, “Japan’s dispute with church a test of liberty everywhere.”

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection - Speakers Tell UPF, Washington Times Foundation Event

Retrieved on: 
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,

Key Points: 
  • Religious Freedom Requires Constant Protection,
    If a nation disrespects religious freedom, “all other rights
    Constant and vigorous protection of religious freedom is essential to world peace and democracy, an array of human rights experts and religious freedom leaders told the audience at a recent event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and The Washington Times Foundation.
  • Religious freedom serves communities as well as individuals, said Prof. Cole Durham Jr., director of the Brigham Young University's International Center for Law and Religious Studies.
  • UPF and The Washington Times Foundation are committed to protect, defend and advance religious liberty universally.
  • Together we will roll back the tyranny of all God-denying ideologies and build a better world.”
    The UPF and Washington Times Foundation event was covered in a Jan. 31 Washington Times article, under the headline, “Japan’s dispute with church a test of liberty everywhere.”

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Statement by Religious Freedom and Human Rights Organizations On Japanese Government’s Undemocratic Request to Dissolve a Minority Religion

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.

Key Points: 
  • TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.
  • Since 2022, the religious organization has cooperated with a government investigation while protesting falsehoods and half-truths in the media.
  • But the Japanese government did not heed these good-faith challenges.
  • Link to Bitter Winter article: https://bitterwinter.org/the-request-for-dissolution-of-the-unification-...
    Center for Studies on New Religions, "Bitter Winter"

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Statement by Religious Freedom and Human Rights Organizations On Japanese Government’s Undemocratic Request to Dissolve a Minority Religion

Retrieved on: 
Saturday, October 14, 2023

TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.

Key Points: 
  • TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.
  • Since 2022, the religious organization has cooperated with a government investigation while protesting falsehoods and half-truths in the media.
  • But the Japanese government did not heed these good-faith challenges.
  • Link to Bitter Winter article: https://bitterwinter.org/the-request-for-dissolution-of-the-unification-...
    Center for Studies on New Religions, "Bitter Winter"

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Statement by Religious Freedom and Human Rights Organizations On Japanese Government’s Undemocratic Request to Dissolve a Minority Religion

Retrieved on: 
Saturday, October 14, 2023

TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.

Key Points: 
  • TORINO, Italy (October 14, 2023)—Twelve international human rights and religious freedom organizations have signed a statement published in Bitter Winter warning Japanese political leaders that they are acting more like a totalitarian regime than a democracy with their recent request to liquidate a minority religion that has existed in Japan for 60 years.
  • Since 2022, the religious organization has cooperated with a government investigation while protesting falsehoods and half-truths in the media.
  • But the Japanese government did not heed these good-faith challenges.
  • Link to Bitter Winter article: https://bitterwinter.org/the-request-for-dissolution-of-the-unification-...
    Center for Studies on New Religions, "Bitter Winter"

"Unification Church" Statement on Japan's Consideration to Dissolve Sister Church in Japan

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Friday, October 13, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Federation for World Peace and Unification USA, colloquially known as the "Unification Church," is appalled at the Japanese government's consideration to dissolve our sister church in Japan.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Federation for World Peace and Unification USA, colloquially known as the "Unification Church," is appalled at the Japanese government's consideration to dissolve our sister church in Japan.
  • According to the Freedom House analysis , Japan scores highly for the freedom of individuals in Japan to practice and express their religious faith or nonbelief in public and private.
  • If the Japanese government dissolves the Family Federation in Japan, they are going directly against their own laws.
  • I have not met any other group from Japan that has had as much of a positive impact around the world.

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes an Analysis by a Leading Japanese Christian Theologian on the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church Issue

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Today, Bitter Winter is publishing an analysis by a leading Japanese Christian theologian who, despite his opposition to the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church, is alarmed by the government’s mistreatment of it.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Bitter Winter is publishing an analysis by a leading Japanese Christian theologian who, despite his opposition to the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church, is alarmed by the government’s mistreatment of it.
  • This two-part series, by Haruhisa Nakagawa, president of Japan Christian Theological Institute, will run September 29-30, 2023.
  • Mr. Nakagawa decries the Japanese media’s one-sided and sensationalistic coverage of the Japan Family Federation and its ready acceptance of baseless or exaggerated claims against it.
  • “Because of things like this, we regard what is happening in Japan as the worst current religious liberty crisis in a democratic country,” said Dr. Introvigne.

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes an Analysis by a Leading Japanese Christian Theologian on the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church Issue

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Today, Bitter Winter is publishing an analysis by a leading Japanese Christian theologian who, despite his opposition to the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church, is alarmed by the government’s mistreatment of it.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Bitter Winter is publishing an analysis by a leading Japanese Christian theologian who, despite his opposition to the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church, is alarmed by the government’s mistreatment of it.
  • This two-part series, by Haruhisa Nakagawa, president of Japan Christian Theological Institute, will run September 29-30, 2023.
  • Mr. Nakagawa decries the Japanese media’s one-sided and sensationalistic coverage of the Japan Family Federation and its ready acceptance of baseless or exaggerated claims against it.
  • “Because of things like this, we regard what is happening in Japan as the worst current religious liberty crisis in a democratic country,” said Dr. Introvigne.