by HRWF | Nov 29, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Saint Hill. Photo credit: CSI UNITED KINGDOM: The International Association of Scientologists’ 39th Anniversary and a protest that failed One week before the three-day event attended by about 7000 Scientologists, opponents and the media announced a mass...
by HRWF | Oct 13, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
GERMANY: State-funded Lutheran Church’s “Sect Filters” for school teachers You should state you have not attended events of, or sympathize with, Scientology, Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Moonies,” “Hare Krishna,” or Universal Life (other religions are not mentioned). By...
by HRWF | Oct 12, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
GERMANY/EU: Germany and the EU in the dock at the OSCE on religious discrimination OSCE (06.10.2023) – At the Warsaw Human Conference, Germany and the EU were jointly in the dock in a statement on religious discrimination made on 6 October by Ivan Arjona, President of...
by HRWF | Aug 26, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: The head of the Church of Scientology of St. Petersburg was sentenced to prison and released The court imposed heavy fines on the rest of the defendants in the case SOVA Center (24.08.2023) – On August 24, 2023, the Nevsky District Court of St....
by HRWF | Aug 21, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Visit of the headquarters of a minority religion in Taiwan, Jehovah’s Witnesses (Credit: HRWF) TAIWAN: No anti-cult activity, no religious intolerance: the example of Taiwan Are European states in a position to teach lessons to other countries about religious...