by admin_HRWF | Nov 23, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (12.11.2020) – Kim Ju-hye, a university student, joined the Shincheonji Church in 2018 after growing up in a Presbyterian household. Her father is a reporter for a newspaper company owned by the Christian Council of Korea and her mother is currently working as a...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 18, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Ms. Lee was a prominent activist and a founder of women’s studies programs. She also stood up to the country’s dictators. By Michael Astor The New York Times (14.11.2020) – https://nyti.ms/3f86edt – When Lee Hyo-jae learned of a university...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 19, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (19.10.2020) – Kyoung-joon currently works as a baker in Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, and had been living independently from his divorced parents. He was kidnapped by them on a family trip together to forcibly de-convert him from the Shincheonji...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 6, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Massimo Introvigne & Rosita Šorytė CESNUR (05.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/3nlCfT0 – Eileen Barker, Europe’s most senior scholar of new religions, notes in her entry “New Religious Movements” in the 2020 SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 5, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Saving lives by donating plasma: Why are Shincheonji’s good deeds ignored? Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions Rosita Šorytė, European Federation for Freedom of Belief Cesnur (05.10.2020) –...
