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MIVILUDE’s last report reveals that on July 15, 2009, M. Fenech invited a delegation of the Chinese embassy at MIVILUDES’s quarters.
It is not the first time that French « anti-cult » politics stirs the interest of Chinese authorities. Indeed, we recall M. Alain Vivien’s trip to China, at the time he presided the now defunct [...]
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I presided over Unadfi (National union of associations in defense of families and individuals victimized by sects.) from 1993 to 2001. When I began in 1984, the association didn’t take up beliefs nor philosophies, but only people. I have always had as a principle that we leave our beliefs at the door and should only be interested in the facts.
Today, I worry when *I hear that the president of Unadfi, Catherine Picard , is to criticize at the Meeting of “Evangelist churchs” without discrimination.
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Adfi Nord’s President, Charline Delporte, continues her crusade against new religious movements. Indeed, on 18 March, in an article in La Voix du Nord, she denounces a lecture that was to be held by the Graam movement, in a venue in Boulogne sur Mer.
In this article, Adfi Nord’s President says: « we are facing a [...]
***Lyons, April 28, 2000
Claude is a Protestant. The freedoms of his Evangelical Association are being more and more restricted due to the growing climate of fear of “cults” that is spreading in France today and affecting many religions groups.
I represent the CLEF Association [Lyons Evangelization and Training Circle], which is affiliated with the French Evangelical [...]
Denial of access to spiritual assistance by Jehovah’s Witnesses in prison is discriminatory
The misuse of the parliamentary report on cults once more denounced
HRWF (29.03.2010) - In its decision nr 2010-43 of 22 February 2010, HALDE (The High Authority Fighting against Discrimination and for Equality) has concluded that the denial of spiritual assistance to Jehovah’s Witnesses [...]
One more case of misuse of the parliamentary report on cults and discrimination in total impunity
Human Rights Without Frontiers urges France’s Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior to send a circular letter to the institutions under their authority forbidding the use of the parliamentary black list of so-called cults to deny the full [...]
Fecris an NGO enterly financed by the french government
January 5, 2010
Mr. Andrei Abramov, Chief, NGO Branch
Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
One United Nations Plaza
Room DC1-1480
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Abramov:
I am President of Coordination européenne des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience (European Coordination of Associations and Individuals for [...]
FRANCE
The antisect movements and money: Why not a parliamentary inquiry commission?
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers
HRWF (08.12.2009) - Website: http://www.hrwf.net - Email: info@hrwf.net - At a colloquium organized by MIVILUDES (1) in Lyon on 27 November 2009, Mrs Catherine Picard, UNADFI (2) president, deplored the decrease in public funding of her antisect movement.
The income [...]
For more than a decade, 1 million euros has been spent every year out of taxpayers’ money to support specific lobbies. This waste of money is still going on and escaped so far the official cost reductions induced by the economic crisis.
When inquiring further into this situation, we found out a story of a carefully [...]
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Fight against sects: the orientations of Georges Fenech continue to generate worry
Le Monde 2009 04 06
Six months after his posting as head of Miviludes, he should receive in the coming days his official battle plan from the Prime Minister who has direct authority upon him.
If he didn’t yet get the last arbitrations, the former MP [...]