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FRANCE: BILL “TO REINFORCE THE FIGHT AGAINST CULTIC DEVIANCES”
FRANCE: BILL “TO REINFORCE THE FIGHT AGAINST CULTIC DEVIANCES”   A REAL THREAT TO FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE, RELIGION AND BELIEF     Executive Summary   The draft law "aimed at reinforcing the fight against cultic deviances", presented to the Council of Ministers on November 15, 2023, and immediately forwarded to the Senate Law Commission under accelerated procedure, will be...
       
Another Minority Religion Under Threat in Russia: Who Is Afraid of Sri Prakash?
Open Letter The situation of religious minorities in Russia has been a cause of serious concerns for several years. While Russia hosts high-level academic institutes and tolerant intellectuals, it is also home to radicals who believe that the Russian Orthodox tradition should be defended by cracking down on minority religions. Notorious in this respect has been, again for years, one Alexander...
       
Forced Conversion in South Korea Should Be Put to an End: An Open Letter to President Moon Jae-in
한국의 강제 개종을 근절해야 합니다 : 문재인 대통령에게 보내는 공개서한 Dear President Moon: 문재인 대통령님   We represent international NGOs and scholarly organizations specialized in researching religious pluralism and new religious movements throughout the world, and advocating for religious liberty. 우리는 종교 다원주의와 세계의 새로운 종교 운동을 연구하고 종교 자유를 옹호하는 국제 민간단체와 학술 단체를 대표합니다.   South Korea is a democratic country in an...
       
Press Release - Faith and Freedom Summit II
A New Direction for the European Union Source: https://faithandfreedomsummit.eu/faith-and-freedom-summit-ii (EIFRF is a member of the Faith and Freedom Summit Coalition)   A New Direction for the European Union Religion or Belief The EU Faith & Freedom Summit   For the second year in a row the Faith & Freedom Summit met on April 2 in the European Parliament, to forge...
       
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Lettre de Petar Gramatikov sur le projet de loi "dérives sectaires" en France

Lettre de Petar Gramatikov sur le projet de loi "dérives sectaires" en France
Madame Lauriane Josende Sénatrice Casier de la poste 15, rue de Vaugirard 75291 - Paris Cedex 06 France...
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France : analyse du projet de loi visant à renforcer les dérives sectaires

France : analyse du projet de loi visant à renforcer les dérives sectaires
PROJET DE LOI VISANT A RENFORCER LA LUTTE CONTRE LES DERIVES SECTAIRES   UNE REELLE MENACE POUR LA LIBERTE DE CONSCIENCE, DE RELIGION ET DE CONVICTION     Résumé   Le projet de loi « visant à renforcer la lutte contre les dérives sectaires », présenté en Conseil des Ministres le 15 novembre 2023, et transmis immédiatement à la Commission des Lois du Sénat en procédure accélérée, sera discuté en séance plénière au Sénat le 19 décembre [1]. Composé de 7...
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Why FECRIS should be held responsible for its Russian members activities

FECRIS annual symposium in Saint-Petersburg
A rapid history of FECRIS   The European Federation of Centres for Research and Information on Sects and Cults (FECRIS) is a French-registered umbrella organization that gathers anti-cult associations all over Europe and beyond. It was created on June 30, 1994, by the French anti-cult association UNADFI (National Union of Associations in Defense of the Individual and Families against Cults), and registered at the very same address as UNADFI. It was created with the aim of coordinating...
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe takes the lead on FoRB in the workplace

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe takes the lead on FoRB in the workplace
On January 29, 2020 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed a resolution called "The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace".  As all PACE's resolutions, this one is not a binding law for the 47 countries of the Council of Europe. Nevertheless, it has the strength of its consensus amongst European members of national parliaments that represent their countries at the PACE. In terms of soft law, every government in the Council of Europe's...
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OSCE/ODIHR releases new important guidelines on FoRB and security

OSCE/ODIHR releases new important guidelines on FoRB and security
On September 19, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released a new document called "Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security: Policy Guidance". As said on the ODIHR website : This publication is designed to clarify the interrelationship between freedom of religion and security in light of the OSCE’s comprehensive framework for peace and security. It further explains the nature, status and scope of freedom of religion or belief as enshrined in OSCE...
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Events

Register to the Faith and Freedom Summit II

Register to the Faith and Freedom Summit II
The Faith and Freedom Summit, a campaign for freedom of religion of belief in the EU run by a coalition of NGOs (including EIFRF), will have its second event on April 2, in the European Parliament.  The announcement includes the following:  "We strongly believe that EU citizens must enjoy a real freedom of religion or belief, at every level, and that this fundamental right is not given the importance it deserves in the EU institutions, and in the EU instruments to protect the...
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NGOs write to international Govt leaders to alert on 45 reporters of Bitter Winter arrested in China

NGOs write to international Govt leaders to alert on 45 reporters of Bitter Winter arrested in China
A group of NGOs, including EIFRF, wrote a joint letter to various international government leaders to alert them on the arrest of 45 reporters working for the online newspaper Bitter Winter, and calling them to action. The letter reads as follows: To: Dr Ahmed Shaheed UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Mrs Federica Mogherini High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Mrs Dunja Mijatović Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe...
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The Faith and Freedom Summit has a new website

The Faith and Freedom Summit has a new website
The Faith and Freedom Summit is not an organisation. It’s a campaign proposed and run by a large coalition of faith-based and non faith-based NGOs and supported by many EU stakeholders. The Summit launched a pledge that all MEP candidates are asked to sign, that reads as following: "I pledge that I will uphold and defend the freedom of conscience and religion of all individuals by rejecting and speaking out against bigotry, discrimination, harassment and violence; and so build a more equitable...
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US State Dept places Russia on Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom

US State Dept places Russia on Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom
On December 11, 2018 the US State department placed Russia on a Special Watch List for governments that have engaged in or tolerated “severe violations of religious freedom." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced it in a press release that can be found here: https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2018/12/288006.htm, with these words: "In far too many places across the globe, individuals continue to face harassment, arrests, or even death for simply living their lives in accordance...
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St Petersburg Conference on Religious life of Russian regions and prevention of religious extremism - Speech by Marco Ventura

St Petersburg Conference on Religious life of Russian regions and prevention of religious extremism - Speech by Marco Ventura
Professor Marco Ventura is the Director of the Centre for Religious Studies at Bruno Kessler Foundation, full professor with tenure at the Department of Law of the University of Siena and member of the experts panel on Freedom of Religion of the OSCE. On October 2, he intervened at the conference "Religious life of Russian regions and prevention of religious extremism", which took place in St Petersburg, Russia. The conference was organized by the Russian Association of Religion Researchers...
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Stop the Persecution of Chinese Refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea

Stop the Persecution of Chinese Refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea
The Appel of the Nine NGOs, including EIFRF Heavily persecuted in China, with many documented cases of torture and extra-judicial killings, hundreds of members of The Church of Almighty God have escaped to South Korea, where they are seeking refugee status. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pursuing them also in Korea. It has coerced or persuaded with threats their relatives to go to Korea and ask that the refugees “return home,” i.e. go back to China where they would not go “home” but to...
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THE MOTION FOR STAY OF REMOVAL TO CHINA OF SISTER ZOU DEMEI HAS BEEN GRANTED

THE MOTION FOR STAY OF REMOVAL TO CHINA OF SISTER ZOU DEMEI HAS BEEN GRANTED
The US Board of Immigration Appeals granted on August 13 a stay of removal to the leader of The Church of Almighty God in four Chinese provinces, who was to be deported to China after August 15. Bitter Winter reported on August 13  that attorney Russell Abrutyn had filed an urgent appeal to the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals to stay deportation to China of Sister Zou Demei , the leader of The Church of Almighty God  in four Chinese provinces, who entered the U.S....
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Open letter: Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Will the United States Send This Woman to Her Death?

Open letter: Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Will the United States Send This Woman to Her Death?
An Open Letter to President Trump Dear President Trump, We are NGOs, some of them with ECOSOC consultative status, active in the defense of human rights and religious liberty, with a special experience and concerns for China, and write to ask for your urgent intervention in a question, literally, of life and death. It regards an asylum seeker of a Chinese Christian new religious movement, The Church of Almighty God, who is detained in Detroit, Michigan, and threatened with immediate...
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Register to the Faith and Freedom Summit

Register to the Faith and Freedom Summit
The Faith and Freedom Summit: Practicing what we Preach in Europe is a non-partisan summit, which brings together leaders from the various fields of politics, government, academia, activism and the non-for-profit sector from across Europe and beyond, in order to propose and develop initiatives that will put Freedom of Religion or Belief in Europe back in the spotlights. Top international speakers at the event include: Jan Figel EU Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or...
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Event to come at EU Parliament: Religious Persecution in China

EIFRF will participate to this event that will take place on June 27 in the EU Parliament, organized by Human Rights Without Frontiers International         If you need access to the European Parliament, please be sure to complete your registration by 20 June, 2018.   Questions? Email: events@hrwf.org  ...
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Lettre de Petar Gramatikov sur le projet de loi "dérives sectaires" en France 11/27/2023 - Rev. Petar Gramatikoff

FRANCE: BILL “TO REINFORCE THE FIGHT AGAINST CULTIC DEVIANCES” 11/27/2023 - Rev. Petar Gramatikoff

France : analyse du projet de loi visant à renforcer les dérives sectaires 11/27/2023 - Rev. Petar Gramatikoff

Why FECRIS should be held responsible for its Russian members activities 03/29/2022 - EIFRF

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe takes the lead on FoRB in the workplace 02/17/2020 - EIFRF

OSCE/ODIHR releases new important guidelines on FoRB and security 09/22/2019 - EIFRF

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