Russia: European Court of Human Rights holds that expulsion of foreign missionary on national security grounds is contrary to freedom of religion
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held in a judgment issued today, 12 February 2009, that Russia’s expulsion of an American missionary of the Unification Church on national security grounds was incompatible with [...]
The French December 9th 1905 Act on the separation of the Churches and the State
By Alex de Valera
Introduction:
When referring to the 1905 Act most people evoke separation between the State and the Church, secularity and neutrality of the State. They quote the first lines of articles 1 and 2:
Art. 1. - The Republic ensures freedom [...]
Cultural Revolution within the anti-cult fight, by Raphaël Liogier
03.03.08
For the first time in nearly thirty years, a way of thinking grounded on experience on the field and stemming both from the Ministry of the Interior, mindful of the safety of individuals, and from sociologists, mindful of the knowledge of religion, now wins over sheer denunciation.
But [...]